How to Make Your First Game in Unreal Engine 5 in 2024 - Full Course

Hello guys, in this quick and simple tutorial we are going to learn how to make your very first game in Unreal Engine 5
↪️Project Files: bit.ly/GorkaGames_Patreon
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🎁Assets:
Attack Animation: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4C1dGaPn9GVkLMsi=3-S7nHlJ_zZ_JSJp
Nature Pack: www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/stylized-pbr-nature-pack
Characters: www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/stylized-male-character-kit-casual
🔊Sounds:
Footstep: freesound.org/people/swuing/sounds/38874/
Attack Grunt: freesound.org/people/MrFossy/sounds/547209/
Damage Grunt: freesound.org/people/whisperbandnumber1/sounds/397276/
Wave Completed: freesound.org/people/Kenneth_Cooney/sounds/609336/
Forest Sounds Looping: freesound.org/people/rolandasb/sounds/170515/
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0:00 - Intro
0:28 - Project Creation
1:24 - Editor Interface
3:58 - Project Cleaning Up
5:49 - Game Mode and Player Blueprints
11:28 - Player Input
16:49 - Player Movement
23:05 - Character Animations
29:41 - Attack
45:35 - Damage System
53:22 - AI Enemy
1:10:27 - Wave Spawner
1:24:25 - UI
1:37:55 - Sounds
1:45:13 - Environment Level
2:00:10 - Character Asset
2:10:19 - Outro
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[@immau]

Great course. As a challenge i added a jump animation and then it wouldnt allow me to attack again after jumping so i used the same set true false while jumping or not and it worked!

[@john291993]

Been wanting to make video games my whole life. im now 30 an just starting to learn some basics, thank you for your lessons most helpful video i came across so far!

[@MindsMouth]

Same. Lol

[@SimTheSon]

same, I'm 30 too and just starting lol

[@MindsMouth]

@@SimTheSon we should all collaborate lol

[@jstigvisuals7445]

same here!

[@jstigvisuals7445]

@@MindsMouth im game!

[@JimmyCrackorn]

Thank you for explaining all of the elements along the way!

[@Blackwolf37100]

I haven't finished the video yet, but I can already say that this is the first tutorial I enjoy following! It's clear, concise, well explained, every action you do is not done without explanation and that's great, it doesn't go fast like youtubers who forget that often you are absolutely beginner and that it quickly becomes hard to follow... thanks bro i sub !

[@k2an]

OMG! all questions that i wonder in this awesome tutorial. Thanks!!!!!!

[@Yk_2000]

Thanks for the tutorial! This is all the things i need put in one video 👍. Deleting all the default inputs, character etc and making new ones helped me understand them better. Im currently up to movement 😁

[@NoQueso_]

I'm halfway through the tutorial so far and I'm LOVING it! It's answered so many questions for an idea that I had for a game in Unreal, and it's been a godsend. Thank you! I definitely want to check out the more advanced AI tutorial that you mentioned in the video.

[@MtxLk]

Thank you so much for these tutorials, people like you make our lives so much easier. please keep up the good work, I hope you get all the support you deserve :)

[@ironbanksofficial]

I appreciate these videos so much! I love learning Unreal Engine 5! It's been such a great way to keep my brain energized! Thanks so much for taking the time to do this. It's amazing what you can learn for free online these days

[@Neyavva]

Wow man thanks is not enough for your kind work 🔥 love u soo much proud of u

[@MrBooBooOfficial]

I'm still watching the tutorial, currently at 20:02 while writing this comment, but i already want to say that this tutorial is absolutely amazing! It is very understandable. You are very relaxed and clearly show what to do. You gained a subscribtion!

[@elisonoliveira9468]

Você ter aumentado a fonte da tela, já deixa esse tutorial mais acessíveil que todos os outros que já vi hahahah obrigado

[@exoZelia]

43:05 he does * and selects multiply. I had to go back and slow down the speed to see which option was selected (this is an awesome tutorial btw)

[@najbighouse]

I watched it at 0.75

[@enderfire3379]

thank you

[@cactusblade5112]

Thank you so much, gorka! I have just recently started developing a game with ue5, am I am sure this tutorial will help me a lot.

[@GorkaGames]

my pleasure man!!

[@istheOTHERSIDE]

Thanks! Exactly what i needed))))

[@herberthorst]

Man im only 20 min into this tutorial and already learned so much more than in the vids I found before. FINALLY I understand why to do it a particular way instead of only copying what the video says. Also this Tutorial is doing pretty good in doing stuff a way that everything is staying organized even as the Project is getting bigger and bigger. Best Tutorial I found to really understand how to do stuff the right way!

[@ziulunk]

Thank you!! I'm starting to learn Unreal, this will be a great help to me and a lot of people.

[@GorkaGames]

my pleasure!!

[@dogeatturtle]

You are almost single handedly teaching everything I know about Unreal. I came from Unity and your tutorials are being really helpful :D

[@GorkaGames]

thank you so much!!

[@Movman82]

If you're still learning, CoquiGames is really good too.

[@retroboi64]

Same They Help So Much Thanks!!!

[@goldenaussie4748]

Thanks mate I really needed this

[@GorkaGames]

my pleasure!!

[@playaneta]

You are amazing! You earned my subscription. I had to slow down the video cause your to good :)

[@danonwheels8708]

Awesome tutorial buddy well impressed lots of love from the UK

[@itzdonjuan1]

I never comment on anything but I had to leave a comment because this helped me transition into unreal engine very seamlessly as a beginner! Great Video!

[@sLaMz1o1]

Dude this is awesome, thank you for this tutorial.

[@timeriksson6020]

I love these tutorials. I remade your horror game tutorial and changed it up alot. But you did teach me alot of good things. I look forward to making this wave game aswell. I already know about 3 things i will change up to make it more my style. Love everything you do.

[@timeriksson6020]

Oh and if you see this gorka, please could you make a tutorial on how to make the combat system on rayman 3 with the long range melee attacks

[@Cioum]

Amazing tutorial thanks, I enjoyed it a lot :)

[@ilinovable]

Thanks, that's really great tutorial for the beginner. It's really nice step by step guide and you introduced me into multiple aspects of the game development. I look forward to watching your other tutorial videos.

[@jakubhojsan]

Super underrated! keep up the good work :)

[@avinfun4781]

Very new to all this Thank you. As someone trying to follow along by repeating your steps in my unreal 5 you do some of the steps really fast ,I find myself rewinding parts 4 or 5 times ,I realise you have done this stuff a million times but it,s hard to follow without constant rewinding .I wish youtube had a better functionality for teachers. Fascinating stuff I appreciate you.

[@veryrudeguy]

I have to agree, especially in the node/events/visual coding making part.. creating and linking stuff together so fast. Also he sometimes clicks on something to change parameters or delete and hard to figure out what and how he selected something

[@MeechiCodo]

yeah I'm like 20 mins in and I'm watching on .5 speed just to stay afloat lol @@veryrudeguy

[@paddyomeehan]

because these types of videos are kinda aimed at people that know what they are doing, if you are serious about making games on ue5 unfortunately like the rest you will need to learn how to use Bps efficiently , otherwise there is no point in trying , what happens when you finally make a game from copied assets and video advice , and cannot fix anything of your own lol , just got to learn the long and hard way dude.

[@sandiablo360]

@@MeechiCodo That's the way to do it. You have to learn to crawl before you learn to walk.

[@StargateExtincion]

Great video, very informative, thank you

[@fluidexpressions6856]

gorka games thank you so much for everything you do

[@AbbastiktokRt24]

شكرا كان كورس جدا حلو .استمر ❤

[@elenadmpl]

Great tutorial as always thank you!!

[@GorkaGames]

thank you so much!!

[@gameinput8244]

Huge respect to you man! You are pushing out amazing content each dayy! GTA series is something that only a really few number of chnanels did. Im happy to be a subscriber.❤

[@GorkaGames]

thank you so much man!! ❤❤

[@moeburhanimeez7354]

When he said pushing out amazing content each day, I feel like there is that but today is a bit literal since in this game you teach us to make, the character pushes the enemy to defeat them.... Without you man, I feel like I would have quit unreal altogether giving up on game development... Thank you man!@@GorkaGames

[@Cashhmmoney1]

Absolutely brill mate

[@ricardo22448]

very good tutorial, nice and fast haha, also maybe take a look at "Set Timer by Event/function" it is better to use than "delay nodes" because you don't really want to use delay nodes in your game to wait/pause for something.

[@galmizo2116]

The Best, I really needed this ❤, Thanks

[@GorkaGames]

thank you so much!!

[@galmizo2116]

your pc config. because I need build pc and a I want to know a pretty powerful PC configuration@@GorkaGames

[@Bummel299]

love your content. Thank you very much 😍

[@GorkaGames]

thank you!!

[@the_artrobot]

I love what you are covering here and you do seem to make it as simple as Unreal can make it but coming from console based game-making engines for fun and Maya and propriatary engines and tools for work, while I'm thrilled to see more stuff getting added to Unreal Engine like animation, rigging and skeletons, it still seems like Unreal makes some of these steps more complicated than they could be. Even looking at the template stuff you deleted, they don't seem like the great starting points they could be so I'm glad you are showing the more from-scratch version here. Looking forward to more engine updates in the future and hoping they streamline some of these workflows to let asspiring game makers focus more on the art and less on the setup. Thanks for this and looking forward to diving into your other series to make an Assassins Creed like game. I hope to really get into making gameplay more cinimatic with fancy camera logic based on focus points and player position and Film framing conventions but know I need to get these fundimentals down first.

[@aggressivemastery]

WOOT WOOT! Thank you GORKA! :D

[@1TsFluX]

Nice vids just changed from unity to UE5 and your definetly helping me on this switch also i was wondering if you could make a tutorial on how to ads in first person using ik to automatically move the gun in the right location without anims.

[@MathieuWilson-lu8nf]

THERE WE GO! BOOM! This tutorial was helpful but also very entertaining😂

[@xcontentx33]

Hi I know a Lil bit on unreal engine but I learn a lot off you thnx

[@xDaedron]

Something I've noticed you can do so that player's death ragdoll is better - instead of disabling input when player dies, you can instead Set Can Attack boolean to false, then simply do Disable Movement function (it will automatically target Character Movement component). After all of this, proceed with Set Simulate Physics as usual. In this way, you can still look with the camera, but you won't be able to move or attack. Thank you for this wonderful tutorial!

[@Manas-co8wl]

Finally, same version I'm using.. not that it should matter _too_ much in theory, but when learning for the first time even the smallest differences can be a nuisance Fun fact: Apparently controlling Pitch on its own doesn't do anything. As the tutorial says, you have to turn on Use Pawn Control Rotation for SpringArm. Now if you're like me and you made a mistake and turned it on on the Camera instead, you will rotate orienting the Camera instead of the Character/Pawn or apparently the SpringArm origin. If you turn on both, Unreal seems to recognize only the parent's toggle and orient to Character/SpringArm. So apparently, what the Yaw/Pitch Input nodes do is merely _suggesting_ to the Blueprint that the input should happen. The various toggles for receiving that input should be turned on within the components for the inputs to actually work. They're not always the same name, some depend directly on character input and some by inheriting its value from the parent, but nevertheless they are relevant toggles to Yaw/Pitch/Roll. By default, the root (Class Defaults) actually has Use Character Rotation Yaw turned on but not Pitch or Roll. This is why it doesn't receive Pitch input. If you turn off Use Pawn Control Rotation on all the children and then turn Use Character Rotation Pitch on in the root, you will find that the character itself rotates along the Pitch input. This may be useful if you have a full 3D flying game or a space control game. The children have Inherit Yaw/Pitch/Roll toggles as well as the Use Pawn Control Rotation toggle. Turning all the Inherit toggles off while having Use Character Rotation Pitch turned on in the root will make the mouse movement rotate the character but not the camera at all. This can also be useful in some cases (like character/item creation). As I said before, when multiple components are made to receive input, Unreal seems to default only to the entry closest to the root. So if I have Use Character Rotation Pitch turned on in the root, turning on Use Pawn Control Rotation in the children (say, SpringArm) doesn't seem to do anything. The only way the SpringArm can move alongside the Pitch together with the root is with the Inherit Pitch on. Unreal also seems to treat Yaw/Pitch/Roll inputs separately from the root but not in any of its children (i.e. there's no Use Use Character Rotation Yaw in children, just Use Pawn Control Rotation.) So for example if you turn on Use Pawn Control Rotation toggle in SpringArm, turning it on in the camera won't do anything. Meanwhile, if the Use Character Rotation Yaw is turned on in the root (but not Pitch/Roll) at the same time, the Yaw input will control the Self(Character) while the Pitch/Roll inputs will control the SpringArm(Camera). (Which is ultimately what the tutorial setting is doing, with all inherits turned on in the SpringArm especially Yaw which is the only one relevant here.) Orient Rotation to Movement is pretty much self explanatory, any movement input (in our case the Axis2D of IA_Move) will cause self to rotate towards the direction it is moving. Now.. it appears that any Yaw/Pitch/Roll inputs in the Class Defaults negate or override this, therefore all input toggles must be turned off (which is why we turn off Use Character Rotation Yaw). If you have Use Pawn Control Rotation turned off here in SpringArm, you'll find that the camera doesn't receive any input from your mouse, and that the camera rotates (rather abruptly) towards whichever direction you're going. If you turn off all the Inherits here as well, the camera won't turn at all. This is of course the same as having no nodes in the first place and therefore useless, so we should just turn Use Pawn Control Rotation turned on. Then the SpringArm will be the one listening to both your Yaw/Pitch inputs. (To be honest, the Inherit toggles must also be on for Use Pawn Control Rotation to work correctly as expected, but I'm still not sure why. Perhaps there's something I've missed, but overall what I've found seems to be true.) This was long but I just had to figure out what exactly these toggles and nodes were doing. This is mostly a note for myself, but I hope this is helpful to others as well.

[@lemapp]

A bit long, but helpful. I was failing to rotate around the player as shown in the video. I selected the Spring Arm and altered the 'Use Pawn Control Rotation'. In my case, I made it active.

[@Doomskilled]

had the wierd camera issue, this fixed it for me :) thanks

[@TYRELLDYCK]

I am breaking this down and going through it while I developed my own project. This is great! My suggestion to you is that you are careful using your key board shortcuts (withought at least putting them in a comment) and assuming people know things like how * is multiplication in code. Anyway you are still probably the most useful I have found so here is a like and sub!

[@Itemtotem]

* is also multiplication in math that they teach in high school, I'm sure he presumes anyone with the capacity for programming/coding has the knowledge of basic mathematical operations. I agree about shortcuts but he probably doesn't even realize he is doing it sometimes because it's so ingrained

[@GowthamDme-dj2ye]

great..... and thank you so much

[@NikDudukovic]

Dude you’re a legend

[@GorkaGames]

thank you so much man!!

[@user-hk6kk6md6l]

Thank you brother ❤

[@super-fc6tz]

I love widget reflector so much I search that almost 2 months suddenly found in this video. unexpected and thank you

[@init1mk]

oh men i love you ❤ your courses are great specially the Udemy course ( Make Stealth Games in UE5 ) thank you so much please keep going

[@GorkaGames]

thank you so much man!! ❤

[@gamestudioz_0]

Big fan of your work 💥💥

[@GorkaGames]

thank you man!!

[@royalgamers9727]

Hi bro following you from 5k subs. Love your tutorials bro. Again this video is also very good. Thank you for tutorials ❤❤❤

[@giligilichu5087]

Thanks sir ❤❤❤

[@JackSather]

I'm at 1:46:08 And i'm LOVING the results, thanks for this tutorial man! you're the real deal!

[@brianmo2611]

you going to show us what you made?

[@Abdullah-london]

Please share your result!

[@sandiablo360]

This is my learning style

[@ancient_fact_baba]

Awesome 😎🎉 thnx 😁

[@GorkaGames]

thank you!!

[@jhonattasilva2804]

Heeeey, I would love to see another video like this but for mobile, like with touchscreen buttons and etc. Please do something like this. Thank you!

[@kartheesh6913]

What da hail 🔥 (PS: you should make a series wer eu go over runtime terrian generation, really an underspoken topic)

[@tracken]

wonderful video, ton of help thank you very much. Only piece of feedback would be to slow down some of the clicks where you change a lot of settings at once. I got lost a bunch trying to follow. Overall though thank you for the video. Liked, commented, and subscribed.

[@AbbastiktokRt24]

شكرا

[@atif-sz9qp]

thank you bruh

[@saahilmahajan9453]

thank you for the tutorial. what specs for laptop/desktop for unreal engine 5 would you recommend, on a budget. tvm!

[@wowfan007]

Thanks for the great tutorial! Sorry for stupid question, but what level of Patreon access is needed download project files? Would it make sense to sign up for a course instead?

[@ronydey2696]

Great 👍

[@michaelpacheco7421]

Thanks for this turorial! The player and enemy blueprints are very similar. Is there a way to avoid the logic duplication between them?

[@beaversaysdam]

The fact that anybody can watch this and follow along for free is incredible. keep up the amazing work man

[@TinoPlusUltra]

Gorka Games posted this on reddit and was DRAGGED. Not going to get into details but people really need to stop hating on others for no good reason. I can't say I always agree with EVERYTHING he does but I have to admit I have learned so much from him. We really don't have enough tutorials for this monster of an engine. So I just wanted to say I really appreciate what you're doing man. You are helping a lot of people begin their dream when you post this content. Its clear that you're very passionate. Taking 2 seconds to say thank you and don't slow down for anyone!

[@Duerkul]

16:17 - The shortcut to allign selected nodes is Q

[@MinecraftFeedback]

Another great movie. I have a question, will you ever record something about creating a football game? I am interested in how to create grip on the ball and how to program AI

[@KHAE-MS]

Thank you so much Gorka, something to add to the tutorial. When the enemy is attacked it goes back but if you attack from the sides or the back it will always get pushed to the back. How to make it responsive to the attack direction?

[@KlienStormwell]

You know want you are doing and it shows. I got a bit lost when you used keyboard shortcuts and did not say what you pressed. If you do not mind please can you say what you pressed in the future, it would be a great help. Keep up the good work.

[@tianyang3475]

Nice tutorial in my project the enemys attack each others am i missing some settings ?

[@hakkzii3863]

Bro your vids are awesome thanks but one thing I’ve been wanting to know is how do u make objects unload the further u go away from it then loads back in the closet u get

[@HandFedMole]

Hey Gorka. Thanks for the tutorial. In the damage system, if I wanted to get the attack vector how would I go about doing that? I've figured out that I can set the Damage Causer to Self in the Apply Damage node in BP_Player, but I'd really like the Damage Causer to be something more directional. So for example if my character is moving left but pushing forward, the knock back should be forward.

[@user-ns3wy1jw5u]

very good

[@GorkaGames]

thank you!!

[@g-dojjo]

Thanks bro! Full course tutorials are best!

[@GorkaGames]

thank you so much man!!

[@Ghost-tg2rp]

You are the best

[@GorkaGames]

thank you!!

[@user-np4lh1xl1g]

nice work again! please do gta6 part6 🙏

[@adamsnell2088]

Thank you so much for the tutorial! I followed along and everything turned out great! One bug I have left however is that after switching from the UE mannequin to the skin pack, my character is now invincible. Any ideas? Health hasn't changed and it's still set to disable player input when health

[@feuyar.shorts]

merci

[@asdfghjklaa784]

Hello, do you have a video explaining how to add jumping? My implementation is kinda janky.

[@ORPsanimation]

okay u did the right thing here 5:09

[@alexkotusenko]

bro woke up one day and decided to cook up a masterpiece what a g

[@erendemirtas3906]

Hello Gorka, I have been following you for a long time. Do you have any projects you have published or are working on?

[@L3gend_G5]

Bro, how are you juggling all of these videos! You just started the gta series and are still making videos for the rpg series, yet you’re still managing to pump out all this different long content/s. Also side-note, will you add jumping in the gta series and missions and like one or two triggered cutscenes?? But huge respect for managing to juggle all of this content👍🫡

[@GorkaGames]

thank you so much man!! Grinding all day!! Well add jumping later on, and missions is planned as an extra thing, as the main focus is the wanted system

[@greg3458]

Its his job

[@MemeIsAllreadyInUse]

When u gonna upload next episode?

[@lyjess4933]

The real answer is, most of these things can be found from other youtubers. also, gorka's programming is very poor.

[@keizerderood6873]

​@@GorkaGamesCan you make a video about the dameg system depending on the location in the body ❤ and thanks

[@kpintoc6903]

Gorka no tienes videos en español o en patreon clases/tutoriales específicos para personas que apenas están empezando UE5

[@nunungus]

Great tutorial, I'm still following it, but just one tip you could be a bit slower when explaining! There are parts in the video where you speed up a bit and it might cause confusing since we are still learning everything. So a slower pace in tutorial while doing certains things would be better! Other then that great video!

[@user-em2vd3ui2u]

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[@nunungus]

@@user-em2vd3ui2u What

[@12PeakyBlinders15]

Respect this guy. He sat in front of computer 2 hours to teach us this.

[@kevincantrell6295]

Does your tutorial cover Game Instances that hold variable data like inventory and health?

[@cutecutebethoven]

might do this after the rpg series even tho i am not a beginner

[@rhiku117]

can you please do a tutorial on collision capsule and how to make it work

[@MPOBVIOUSGAMING]

theres some hotkeys you used that i dont know how to input. howd you bring up the animations when u imported the fbx? or is that just the import button in content drawer?

[@bluepr1ntchris]

Yo great tutorial. Question: how can I force the enemy to go back into wandering state once it has killed the player? I'm struggling to figure this out

[@hooliganhaines3574]

Alt left or right click... useful to tell people that in the future

[@Shineinpoverty]

Question, if you did the same thing on Unity? would it be easier or the same?

[@binnn508]

ON 44:00 u got ur thing straight and good for me it didnt it goes random directions with random lenghts i tried to find the problem but couldnt i followed all the steps

[@BlackKnight_FL]

same men and i dont know what to do

[@criswesj21]

Just had the same issue. Come to find out I had both math nodes set to multiply when in reality one was multiply and the second should have been an add instead. I believe that's the main cause for the direction going all wonky. I had also done the "multi sphere trace for objects" node when it should've just been "sphere trace for objects". Not sure if y'all have solved this issue out yourselves but if not I hope this helps!

[@rokcar123]

@@criswesj21 thank you soooo soooo much. you saved me so much of my headache with this!

[@criswesj21]

@@rokcar123 No problem, so glad that could help someone else!

[@kraken5057]

@@criswesj21 Your a life saver!

[@Peteypuckettband]

First of all amazing videos. Im stumped though. I followed along 4 times to make sure im doing it right. total noob btw but at time stamp 1:04:30 when we add the can attack variable and change the code. My enemy no longer shows the attack sphere. However right before you change that code it works fine. It isnt even spamming. So not sure if im missing something. the enemy still walks up and attacks but there’s now attack sphere indicating that attacking is being done. Thanks a million for the videos. If anyone knows what im doing wrong please let me know would love to finish this lesson :)

[@Peteypuckettband]

Fixed it lol i didnt see the can attack Boolean was attached to the branch condition *face slap* there were some links wrong too

[@noblestruggle108]

Love the video! Feeling leaps ahead of where I was, although I'm at a roadblock, on the AI Spawner with the different spawn positions I noticed not all enemies are spawning on my world even though I have always spawn/adjust if need on. Any help by chance?

[@noblestruggle108]

Found out that the world I was playing on had characters spawning outside of the map the fix was to make the map bigger lol

[@AliBounds]

Yay

[@GorkaGames]

🔥🔥💪💪

[@mirkomirko5465]

yeahhhhh next is the RPG new episode XD