Study

Notes from learning Unreal Engine, C++, and the tooling around them — written up as things get figured out, not as a reference manual. If it's here, it's usually because something wasn't obvious the first time or worth remembering later.

Unreal Engine

• Designing Item Classes Around an Interface — a C++ interface for pickups, and a rule of thumb for not over-building it.
• Picking Up Items on Collision — wiring collision-based pickup logic into the interface.
• Item Spawning and Level Data Management — spawning items across three difficulty-tiered levels.
• Character Health and Score Management — why health and score live on the character instead of PlayerState, for now.
• Controlling Game Flow with a Game Loop — GameMode vs. GameState, and where each one's responsibilities start.

Git

• Managing Unreal Engine Projects with Git LFS — keeping large binary assets out of a bloated repo history.
• Embedding GIFs and Images in a GitHub README — linking media that lives in your own repo, not someone else's.