Epic Games shows just how you can create great mobile games with Unreal Engine 4.
Unreal Match 3 is a fully-featured match three-style game. Epic believes that this project can become “learning resource to help people learn how to make great games and apps” with UE4, or course.
Unreal Match 3 shows how you can use the popular engine to build optimized mobile products for a wide range of mobile devices. It also serves as a great example of how you can implement such features as achievements, analytics and in-app purchases in your game.
The project was developed from the good up by Epic’s learning resources team in just a few months. You can download the game, or you can actually download all the assets and source code, to study the production and make something of your own.
The Unreal Match 3 project utilizes many different tools within the UE4 toolset, and major topics it covers includes:
Force feedback
Using the vibration functionality of mobile devices and controllers to convey a force occurring in the game to the player
User interface
Creating the UI for Unreal Match 3
Using the process taken to construct game UI
UMG best practices
Working with Unreal Motion Graphics, UE4’s UI editor
Driving UI updates with events
Optimizing UI elements by driving updates through the use of events
Scaling UI for different devices
Setting up UI to scale automatically using the DPI Scale Rule for different devices
2D features
Paper 2D best practices
Working in Paper 2D, UE4’s 2D editing toolset
Performance and optimization
Mobile performance tips and tricks
Using optimizations and techniques to ensure optimal performance on supported mobile devices
Reducing packaged game size
Source: official press release