Epic Games is hosting a competition at the Gadget Show Live in April of 2013, called “Make Something Unreal Live.” The competition will feature four European studios using the Unreal Development Kit, a free version of Unreal 3, to make a game that will be shown at Gadget Show Live.
The grand prize will be a full source Unreal Engine 4, helping the winning studio to become a commercial game development studio. “It’s great to have world-class studios giving their time to help ensure that the contestants maximise the potential of their games at Make Something Unreal Live. Our finalists have already achieved a very high standard in their pitches and pre-production work, and we’re all looking forward to see how far they can take their games in the next four months,” said Mike Gamble, European Territory Manager at Epic Games.
The four teams that are competing will be mentored by four European game studios: Climax Studios, Lucid Games, Ninja Theory and Splash Damage. Team Summit, from University of Abertay, Dundee, can call on Lucid Games for help with the progress of “Beings”, its 3D puzzle platformer based on realistic genetic inheritance laws. Ninja Theory is mentoring Staffordshire University’s Kairos Games, developer of “Polymorph”, a game of exploration and discovery through a beautiful tribal world. Dead Shark Triplepunch from Sweden’s Blekinge Institute of Technology is developing “Loch Ness”, a fast-paced, arena-based combat game, and they have been matched with Splash Damage. Climax Studios is guiding Bournemouth University’s Static Games, which is building “Mendel’s Farm”, a strategy management game.
The footage of the competition will be on the Unreal Engine Channel on Youtube
