The Make Something Unreal Live 2013 contest pits teams of up and coming game developers against each other to see who can create the best video game.
Each team gets a Wellcome Trust scientist that is able to mentor the members as they develop a game based on the theme ‘Mendelian inheritance:genetics and genomics’. Epic Games, the wonderful company behind the award-winning Gears of War series, has given each team its Unreal Development Kid. This free package includes Epic’s Unreal Engine 3.
Each team pitched a game idea that followed the ‘Mendelian inheritance: genetics and genomics’ theme back in December and have been working hard on their specific projects since then. The scientists are from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and can only give the gaming developers advice on how to create the game.
Below are the final four teams and their creations.
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Dead Shark Triplepunch consists of 10 Blekinge Institute of Technology students. These Swedish developers game is titled “Epigenesis” and is about a ball game played on rooftops that features gravity cannons and plants that support the ball across the field. Their mentor is from the gaming studio Splash Damage. The scientist mentoring them is Josh Randall from the Sanger Institute.
Kairos Games features 
nine students from Staffordshire University. Their third-person platformer “Polymorph” follows the adventures of an amorphous character and its evolving offspring as they adapt to the world around them. Ninja Theory is the studio leading the team and its scientist mentor is James Floyd.
Static Games is out of Bournemouth University and features seven students. Their game “Mendel’s Farm” allows players the opportunity to restore the farm back to its glory days by raising livestock and tending a garden. Climax Studios is the supporting developer behind Static Games and Carl Anderson is their scientist mentor.
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Team Summit is the final team in the running. 
From the University of Abertay, its four members are working on their game “Beings”. This puzzle platform game is aimed at a younger gamer and follows the story of a mythical creature as it comes in contact with different elements. The creature must breed with other creatures in order to get by fire, ice, or snow. Lucid Games and Darren Logan back up Team Summit.
The four teams will each compete live on stage at this years Gadget Show Live. The winning team will be announced on the final day of the show, April 7th, and will receive Unreal Engine 4 as their prize. To learn more about the show head on over to the Gadget Show Live 2013 article.
Good luck to all four teams and may the best game win!
