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Unreal Engine 4 - GT.TV Exclusive Development Walkthrough

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Game developmentSystems programmingUnity, Unreal and GodotBuilding a game engine

Epic Games technical artist Alan Willard demonstrates Unreal Engine 4's real-time editing, live compilation, and hot reloading capabilities.

Get your first look at a real time in-engine tech demo of Unreal 4 in this GT.TV walkthrough with Epic's Sr. Technical Artist Alan Willard! Catch all of the latest news and videos from E3 2012 on GameTrailers: gametrailers.com/e3

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What people say. Cited as an impressive early demonstration of fast developer feedback loops and live-reloading in a high-performance C++ game engine.

archivatoron Hacker News • Recommends

On “Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free”

This is my favorite Unreal 4 demo - link to this video (sadly missing the wonderful quote "I light my level by dropping a sun in.") I'm completely in awe of the feedback loop here. It even compiles and swaps code while you're in the game!
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amadeuswon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Working Toward Bret Victor's “Learnable Programming””

A few years ago (2012) I was taken aback by the Unreal Engine development process. Their IDE features a running game with all elements being selectable and interactively editable. In one video fragment 1 they hop to Visual Studio where they change gravity. After a few seconds of compilation, the game's code is updated. 1 link to this video
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binthereon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Choosing Functional Programming for Our Game”

I believe that on Unreal Engine 4, you use C++ and it does have a feature that mimics "live coding" where it recompiles and hot-reload your game even while playing. edit: here it is link to this video (jump to 9:40 if it doesn't load at this point automatically)
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