In the past couple weeks I have learned a lot about UnrealScript; what it is, what it isn’t, and starting sometime next week I will begin to pass the savings onto you! I am going to start up a simple project, and whenever I make some major progress I will post what I did, and how you can do it too!

Before I get into posting code and junk, I will first post a tutorial on how to set up an ideal work environment for UnrealScript, and go over some programming basics to boot.

My first project will be to create a “Mutator” for Unreal Tournament 3. This is largely the easiest thing someone can do to get started working in UnrealScript; and can still turn into something fun for others to try out!

The next project would still be for UT3, but this time I would be going over how to make  a brand-new game-type; such as CTF and Deathmatch.

Finally, if I get to it, I will try to convey the basics on how to make a “Total Conversion” mod for the Unreal Development Kit. This is effectively what every other game made in the Unreal Engine is. I will probably not go too far into detail, as that would require all kinds of things to be done like making my own models and stuff.

Somewhere in the middle I may go over how to use Flash and Scalefrom for UI solutions in UDK, but to be honest I am not planning on it. (not unless Scaleform releases GFx 4.0 sometime soon, which will have full ActionScript 3 support!)

For the most part, I am still new to UnrealScript. That “Mutator” I mentioned earlier that will be the first major tutorial? That is going to be my first real UnrealScript project. So we are all in this together; except I am slightly ahead.