Creating Stylish Action Games by Unreal - From Programming to Art by Eugene Rho & Eunseong Choi

Learn how to make a real, playable stylish action game in Unreal Engine 5 from zero to packaged build, with a programmer and an animator showing you both sides of the pipeline – Blueprint programming, combat, AI, characters, and motion.

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Build combat gameplay in Unreal Engine 5 with Blueprint – normal attacks, combos, and air combos
• Create game-ready characters using Daz3D, Blender, Mixamo, VRoid Studio and Ready Player Me
• Retarget, edit, and clean up animations for gameplay use
• Program advanced animation systems – Blend Space, Montage, Additive, IK and Control Rig
• Implement targeting, lock-on, gun and sword hit detection with effects
• Build enemy AI with Behavior Trees, StateTree, and combat actions
• Create ground and air combo systems with physics-based hit reactions
• Add HP, birth/death, waves, Niagara sword trails, and package your game

✅ Requirements

• Skills: Basic PC skills, no prior game development experience required. Helpful to know basic 3D navigation and logic thinking.
• Tools: Unreal Engine 5, Blender 3.2, Daz3D with Daz to Unreal Bridge, Mixamo and free Mixamo Control Rig
• Hardware: Windows PC capable of running UE5, dedicated GPU, minimum 16GB RAM, SSD with free space

📝 Description

This isn’t theory. You build two games side by side with a veteran programmer and animator. First a small shooter called Spirit Possession to get Blueprint, OOP concepts, controllers, UI, and collisions into your fingers. Then you throw that foundation straight into a full stylish action game.

The programming side is taught when you actually need it. Variables, functions, inheritance, typecasting, interfaces, and Event Dispatchers are explained inside real combat features, not in isolated lectures. You also get a Blueprint Programming Concept Theory Book that maps each idea to the exact chapter where you use it.

On the art side, you learn the indie shortcut without the cheap look. The class shows how to mix Daz3D, Blender, Mixamo, Ready Player Me, and VRoid Studio assets, optimize polygons, fix skeletons, set up IK Rig and retargeting, and bring everything into Unreal Engine 5 clean. That includes materials, cartoon shading, hair with Alembic Groom and LOD, and weapon setup.

Then comes the fun part: making it feel good. You will wire up locomotion, Blend Space, Animation Montage, Additive aim poses, dodges with Root Motion, foot IK with Control Rig, gun/sword equip and swap, auto-targeting and lock-on, hit judgments, and effects. Enemies get Behavior Trees, StateTree states, melee and ranged attacks, dash and jump attacks, defense, and hit reactions. Finally you add ground combos, air combos with physics blending, Niagara sword trails, HP, waves, and package it.

🧑‍🎓 Who this course is for

• Solo devs or small teams who want to make an action game without a big studio
• Programmers who want to understand characters and animation, and artists who want to understand Blueprint logic
• Indie beginners with zero experience who want one organized pipeline instead of scattered tutorials

🧑‍🏫 About the Author

Eugene Rho is a game developer with around 20 years in the industry, currently an Engine Programmer at Tencent on High Energy Heroes / Apex Mobile. He previously worked as Engine Programmer Expert at NetEase Games and Perfect World, and as Gameplay and Engine Programmer at NCSOFT on titles like Aion Legions. He works daily in Unreal Engine and contributes externally as a community developer.

Eunseong Choi is an expert 3D animator with 20+ years as modeler, animator, and art director, currently Expert Animator at Tencent on projects including PUBG Mobile and SYN tech demo. He previously worked at NetEase Games on Onmyoji and Fantasy Westward Journey 3D, and at NCsoft as Art Director and Animator on Lineage and SteelDog. Together they teach the full programmer + animator workflow used in real production.

🏁 Final Result

• A packaged, playable 3D stylish action game: original realistic heroine with gun and sword, ground and air combos, targeting and lock-on, multiple enemy AIs with special attacks, hit reactions, effects, HP and wave system – ready to show as portfolio and expand into your own indie title.

📢 Guys, this is a Group Buy campaign, check the GBC forum thread to get access

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