Stuart Butler is an Unreal Engine Expert with over 13 years of experience in teaching Games Development in Higher Education. Stuart has published projects in a multitude of disciplines including Technical Design, Art, and Animation. Stuart is the Course Director for Games Technology at Staffordshire University, responsible for the programming team within the UK's largest Games Education Department. Stuart is also an Unreal Authorised Instructor and Educational Content Creator who works with Epic Games on developing learning materials for Unreal Engine 5. Stuart holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Games Design and a PgC in Higher and Professional Education. Tom Oliver is a game programmer with over 10 years of experience in working with game engines both commercially and in an educational capacity. He has used Unreal Engine for contract work both in and out of the games industry, creating systems for games to mixed reality training simulations. Tom is the Course Leader for the BSc (Hons) Computer Games Design and Programming program at Staffordshire University, responsible for maintaining the award winning structure and teaching of the course in the UK's largest Games Education Department. Tom holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Games Design and Programming and a PGc in Higher and Professional Education. Tom specialises in researching gameplay systems driven through mathematical phenomena.

• Table of ContentsUnderstanding Unreal Engine 5 and Its layers“Hello Patterns”UE5 patterns in action: Double Buffer, Flyweight and Spatial PartitioningPremade Patterns in UE5: Component, Behaviour Tree and Update MethodForgetting TickClean communication: Interface and Event Observer patternsA Perfectly Decoupled SystemBuilding Design Patterns: Singleton, Command and StateStructuring Code with Behavioural Patterns: Template, Subclass Sandbox and Type ObjectOptimization through Patterns

Stuart Butler is an Unreal Engine Expert with over 13 years of experience in teaching Games Development in Higher Education. Stuart has published projects in a multitude of disciplines including Technical Design, Art, and Animation. Stuart is the Course Director for Games Technology at Staffordshire University, responsible for the programming team within the UK's largest Games Education Department. Stuart is also an Unreal Authorised Instructor and Educational Content Creator who works with Epic Games on developing learning materials for Unreal Engine 5. Stuart holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Games Design and a PgC in Higher and Professional Education. Tom Oliver is a game programmer with over 10 years of experience in working with game engines both commercially and in an educational capacity. He has used Unreal Engine for contract work both in and out of the games industry, creating systems for games to mixed reality training simulations. Tom is the Course Leader for the BSc (Hons) Computer Games Design and Programming program at Staffordshire University, responsible for maintaining the award winning structure and teaching of the course in the UK's largest Games Education Department. Tom holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Games Design and Programming and a PGc in Higher and Professional Education. Tom specialises in researching gameplay systems driven through mathematical phenomena.

• Table of ContentsUnderstanding Unreal Engine 5 and Its layers“Hello Patterns”UE5 patterns in action: Double Buffer, Flyweight and Spatial PartitioningPremade Patterns in UE5: Component, Behaviour Tree and Update MethodForgetting TickClean communication: Interface and Event Observer patternsA Perfectly Decoupled SystemBuilding Design Patterns: Singleton, Command and StateStructuring Code with Behavioural Patterns: Template, Subclass Sandbox and Type ObjectOptimization through Patterns

Stuart Butler is an Unreal Engine Expert with over 13 years of experience in teaching Games Development in Higher Education. Stuart has published projects in a multitude of disciplines including Technical Design, Art, and Animation. Stuart is the Course Director for Games Technology at Staffordshire University, responsible for the programming team within the UK's largest Games Education Department. Stuart is also an Unreal Authorised Instructor and Educational Content Creator who works with Epic Games on developing learning materials for Unreal Engine 5. Stuart holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Games Design and a PgC in Higher and Professional Education. Tom Oliver is a game programmer with over 10 years of experience in working with game engines both commercially and in an educational capacity. He has used Unreal Engine for contract work both in and out of the games industry, creating systems for games to mixed reality training simulations. Tom is the Course Leader for the BSc (Hons) Computer Games Design and Programming program at Staffordshire University, responsible for maintaining the award winning structure and teaching of the course in the UK's largest Games Education Department. Tom holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Games Design and Programming and a PGc in Higher and Professional Education. Tom specialises in researching gameplay systems driven through mathematical phenomena.

• Table of ContentsUnderstanding Unreal Engine 5 and Its layers“Hello Patterns”UE5 patterns in action: Double Buffer, Flyweight and Spatial PartitioningPremade Patterns in UE5: Component, Behaviour Tree and Update MethodForgetting TickClean communication: Interface and Event Observer patternsA Perfectly Decoupled SystemBuilding Design Patterns: Singleton, Command and StateStructuring Code with Behavioural Patterns: Template, Subclass Sandbox and Type ObjectOptimization through Patterns