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Epic Games Announces New Round of Unreal Dev Grants Totaling over $200,000Epic Games today announced the recipients of the latest round of Unreal Dev Grants totaling over $200,000 in no-strings-attached funds for talented creators. Established in February 2015, Unreal Dev Grants is a $5 million development fund to provide financial support for teams and individuals doing impressive work in and around Unreal Engine 4, awarded without any restrictions or obligations to Epic Games. To date, the program has helped showcase the breadth and diversity of projects powered by Unreal, with this most recent set of 13 recipients hailing from across North America, Europe, China, Korea, Australia and Pakistan. Unreal Dev Grant alumni include Astroneer, which developer System Era recently launched in Alpha; Beethoven and Dinosaur's highly anticipated The Artful Escape, which Annapurna Interactive signed in 2017; and Polyarc's award-winning Moss, coming next month to PlayStation VR, among many other recipients. "Receiving an Unreal Dev Grant is a huge achievement since we are using Unreal Engine in the full production of a film," said Usman Iqbal, Head of Production, 3rd World Studios. "Our film wouldn't be possible without Unreal's fast, built-in tools like Sequencer, the immensely powerful Material Editor, particle editing, post-process effects, and so forth. We can make constant improvements to heavily populated sets that have dynamic foliage, furry animals and lots of particles. This would not be possible if we were using a regular rendering pipeline. Thanks to Epic for enabling an indie studio like ours to Dream Big." "Unreal Dev Grants is our way to reward and highlight the incredible talent that makes up the Unreal development community," said Chance Ivey, Partnership Manager, Epic Games. "These projects show what is possible when you combine passion with creative technology, and stand as examples of why we do what we do." The latest round of grant recipients includes:
Allahyar
and The Legend of Markhr by 3rd World Studios (Pakistan)
Bebylon
Battle Royale by Kite and Lightning (United States)
BlueprintUE.com
by Sebastien Rancoud (France)
Claybook
by Second Order Ltd. (Finland)
Genesis
Noir by Feral Cat Den (United States)
Halflight
by Students of the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
(Taiwan)
Hyper
Jam by Bit Dragon (Australia)
Rogue
Universe by MUST
Games (Korea)
Shift
Quantum by Fishing Cactus (Belgium)
Sinner
by Dark Star Game Studios (Hong Kong)
Skye
from Puny Astronaut (Scotland)
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Machines from Directive Games Limited (China) About Unreal Engine Developed by Epic Games, Unreal Engine is a high-performance software development suite that brings real-time, high-fidelity fully interactive experiences to PC, console, mobile, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) platforms. Used by many of the world's leading entertainment software developers and publishers, Unreal Engine is also an integral part of many enterprise sectors. The Unreal Engine team supports and nurtures vertical markets such as automotive, architecture, film, science, aerospace, marketing and education that make use of real-time technology within their processes. Unreal Engine is freely available at unrealengine.com. Follow @UnrealEngine for updates.
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