The Verse Programming Language

Learn the Verse programming language!

Verse is a new programming language, developed by Epic Games. Verse is the programming language used in UEFN, and will be the language used to program gameplay in Unreal Engine 6, once it comes out.

This is a comprehensive course on the Verse programming language, and Scene Graph. Scene Graph is an Entity-Component System (ECS), which will be the official replacement of the Actor framework in Unreal Engine 6.

Free Asset Pack Provided

In this course, we will learn how to use Verse and Scene Graph to make gameplay experiences in UEFN (the Unreal Editor for Fortnite). We will:

• Create entities and give them data and functionality with Scene Graph components

• Create entity hierarchies and reuse them with customizable Prefabs

• Design props, levels, and game mechanics with Prefabs

• Create Verse-authored components with custom Verse functionality

• Learn the Verse programming language in depth, including:

  • How to think like a Verse programmer

  • How to reason about Verse code, look up code definitions, and analyze the Verse, Unreal Engine, and Fortnite Verse code base

  • How to print log messages and draw debug shapes

  • Creating constants, variables, arrays, maps, tuples, optionals, and more

  • Creating functions, modules, function libraries, Verse tags, and more

  • Adding verse tags to entities, searching the scene graph and local entity hierarchies for entities and components

  • Create extension methods for various types in Verse

  • Create structs to package data

  • Create classes to leverage inheritance and polymorphism

  • Create interfaces to keep code modular

  • Send Scene Events up and down the Scene Graph in an anonymous way, including sending payload data

  • Creating custom events to signal and await to and from

  • Verse's concurrency features, including spawn, sync, branch, rush, and race

  • Create Verse components to handle game functionality, including:

    • Overlaps, sweeps and queries

    • Damage

    • Keyframed movement of entities

    • Play Skeletal Mesh animations from Verse

    • Spawn entities dynamically

    • Projectile movement

    • Play particle and sound effects from Verse

    • Set Material and Niagara System parameters dynamically from Verse

    • Add and remove entities to and from other entities at runtime

    • Create complex puzzle mechanics with a modular architecture

  • We will create a dungeon crawler puzzle-platformer in this course, complete with moving platforms, fire, spike traps, sawblade traps, pressure plates, Souls-style elevators, fireball projectiles, and more

  • We will add Fortnite-specific functionality in the last section, including zombie creatures, swimmable water, teleporters, equippable weapons, and flyable chickens.

  • You will learn how to use Lore to revision-control your project, reverting back to a working state if you ever find it broken and un-fixable

  • Verse code works in multiplayer. You do NOT need any programming experience!

This course uses UEFN. You must have enough space on your machine to download and install UEFN and Fortnite. In order to use the free asset pack provided, you must also have enough space to download Unreal Engine 5.8 to migrate those assets to your UEFN project.

This course is for complete beginners. You do not need any programming experience to take this course. I don't assume you have any game development experience.

You will love the Verse programming language, and find that programming gameplay in Verse is a wonderful experience once you understand the fundamentals!

See you in the course!

Stephen

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