The Marketplace is another great place to browse, full of free and paid assets you can drop into your game, including models, animations, blueprints, sample levels and tutorials.įor now though, click Launch. ( this tab is selected in the image above ). However it is also a good idea to look through the Learn tab to see the wealth of learning materials available for Unreal. Generally what you want is the Unreal Engine Tab and simply click the Launch button. There are currently three tabs across the top, one for Unreal Engine, then one each for the in development games Unreal Tournament and Fortnite.

Once you’ve finished the install, you will have one icon to deal with, Epic Game Launcher.

If not, go do so! It is now completely free, but you will have to register before downloading. I assume at this point you’ve downloaded and installed Unreal Engine already. A bit of a guide tour of the interface as you will need to understand it to make 2D games. In this part of the Unreal vs Unity Tutorial Series, we are going to take an introductory look at Unreal Engine. A video only version of this tutorial is available here.

Getting started with unreal engine 4