{"id":1159,"date":"2012-09-10T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T10:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourismlab\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2012-09-10T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T10:40:09","slug":"new-publication-dr-christos-gatzidis-co-authors-book-on-epic-games-unreal-development-kit-udk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/2012\/09\/10\/new-publication-dr-christos-gatzidis-co-authors-book-on-epic-games-unreal-development-kit-udk\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication: Dr Christos Gatzidis co-authors book on Epic Games&#8217; Unreal Development Kit (UDK)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/files\/2012\/09\/Book-Christos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1160 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/files\/2012\/09\/Book-Christos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/files\/2012\/09\/Book-Christos.jpg 500w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/files\/2012\/09\/Book-Christos-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Christos Gatzidis has co-authored an instructional text book on\u00a0Epic Games&#8217;\u00a0Unreal Development Kit (UDK), a free game engine. UDK\u00a0is one of the most popular third-party developer\u00a0licensed game engines around (the commercial version of the Unreal engine is used in games\u00a0such as Batman\u00a0Arkham City,\u00a0the Mass Effect series\u00a0and many others). The Unreal engine can also be used for 3D virtual world\/environment creation, including of course interactive\u00a0touristic experiences.<\/p>\n<p>The book, titled UDK iOS Game Development Beginner&#8217;s Guide\u00a0was\u00a0published by Packt Publishing on the 24th of August. It covers the fundamentals of the Unreal engine via the creation a third-person shooter game in UDK, with a specific focus on Apple mobile device deployment\u00a0such as the iPad, the iPhone and the iPod Touch. After the game is created,\u00a0the reader\u00a0will learn what can be done with any project in order to optimize\u00a0a UDK\u00a0game for the iOS platform and discover special considerations that need to be made. Finally, the user will be shown how to\u00a0publish\u00a0his\/her game on the App Store for the world to see and play along, with details on different costs associated with publishing.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the book can be found here <a href=\"http:\/\/link.packtpub.com\/bbexNT\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/link.packtpub.com\/bbexNT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Dr Christos Gatzidis has co-authored an instructional text book on\u00a0Epic Games&#8217;\u00a0Unreal Development Kit (UDK), a free game engine. UDK\u00a0is one of the most popular third-party developer\u00a0licensed game engines&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/2012\/09\/10\/new-publication-dr-christos-gatzidis-co-authors-book-on-epic-games-unreal-development-kit-udk\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about New publication: Dr Christos Gatzidis co-authors book on Epic Games&#8217; Unreal Development Kit (UDK)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,82,83],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-free-game-engine","tag-instructional-textbook","tag-unreal-development-kit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}