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Chapter 5. Building an Exciting Endless
Runner Game
Have you owned an iOS device? Or any other smartphone? If so, it means you have played
at least five endless runner games. At the moment, the runners' genre is becoming a re-
markable thing that distinguishes the smartphone devices from any other gaming platform
out there. So learning how to make a runner game is something very important when it
comes to learning about iOS game development with Unreal Engine. As the engine is well
made and highly optimized, you will see how easy it will be to make a runner using Unreal
Engine 4.x for iOS.
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
• Implement 2D sprite animations
• Learn about the basic tap controller
• Use the Character Controller class
• Build endless level logic
• Understand the importance of collectables
• Perform advanced communications between blueprints
• Pool the scene objects for better performance
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