Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4 Game Developers Contest continues! Results of the first stage

In July the company Epic Games and House of the dev (new team project Disgusting Men) announced the start large-scale competition for independent game developers on the engine Unreal Engine 4… This is the third national competition of this kind. The first ones took place in 2019 and 2023.

At the first stage of the competition, developers in need of professional support were invited to send their works to the expert jury by August 1.

In total, the organizers received more than 300 applications… Of these, about 200 will advance to the quarterfinals. All projects can be viewed at the link

Among those that passed to the next stage there are 15 student games, for which special prizes have been prepared from partners and patrons of the competition.

Speaking of prizes: this year they will give more than $ 100,000 Kefir, Sber Games, Super.com and Ravenage will offer partnerships and financial support for the development, and NVIDIA – cherished video cards Geforce RTX 3080… For a complete list of all prizes and services, see on the site

Also on the site, everyone will be able to vote for their favorite projects, read interviews with developers, follow blog posts. In it, participants will write important updates and news on projects.

At the end of September, the organizers will sum up the results of this stage, summarize all the votes of the jury and announce the list of semi-finalists

The most promising games will be selected by representatives of companies and studios such as Tencent, 1C, Kefir, Xsollaand also a blogger Wylsacom… The evaluation of projects will be completed by November 1, and the results will be summed up in November 2023.

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