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Epic Games GDC 2018 Updates Underscore AAA Quality Support for Unreal Engine Developers on All Platforms
Game Developers Conference; Moscone South Booth 423 and 801 - At this
year's "State of Unreal" opening session, Epic Games showcased new
advancements to support the Unreal Engine community of over 5 million
developers.
New Features and Content for Unreal Engine Developers
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Live
Record & Replay in UE4: Content creators will be able
to use footage of recorded gameplay sessions to create incredible
replay videos that can be shared with friends. With Fortnite
generating over 130 million video views daily, Epic recognizes that
games are taking over consumer entertainment, and Epic is helping UE4
developers take their content straight to YouTube (News - Alert), Twitch and social
media. YouTube
phenom Ali-A introduced new replay features live on-stage,
revealing a Fortnite video that he created using tools that
will be coming to Unreal developers in the 4.20 release this summer.
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Improved Mobile Support: Fortnite
has served as a development sandbox for UE4, and by bringing the game
to mobile devices, new Unreal Engine features and improvements will
make bringing the full experience of PC and console to mobile games
easier than ever before.
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Paragon
Assets: Over $12 million worth of characters and
environments from Paragon have been released free of charge for use in
any UE4 project. The initial release is available now in the Unreal
Engine Marketplace, and Epic will release millions of dollars worth of
even more content from Paragon this spring and summer.
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Magic
Leap: Unreal developers can now create experiences for
Magic Leap One™: Creator Edition. A custom Unreal Editor,
documentation and a sample UE4 project are now available for creating
content using the Magic Leap SDK.
News from Unreal Engine Licensees
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Studio Wildcard: Studio Wildcard Art and
Technical Art Director Jesse Rapczak and Lead Designer and Lead
Programmer Jeremy Stieglitz revealed that ARK: Survival Evolved
is coming to Nintendo Switch by debuting gameplay on Switch for the
first time, plus showed footage of ARK: Survival Evolved for
mobile, which is playable in the Unreal Engine booth at 801 South.
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Pixelopus: Pixelopus Creative Director
Dominic Robilliard showed how small teams are doing big things with
Unreal by highlighting hs team's work on the upcoming PS4 game Concrete
Genie.
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Undead Labs: Undead Labs Studio Head Jeff
Strain discussed State of Decay 2 to showcase how his team has
made the jump from indie to AAA production on Xbox with Unreal Engine.
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Riot Games: Riot Games Art Director Jerry
O'Flaherty and Lead Development Manager Kevin Scharff explained why
they tapped Unreal Engine and technology from Zero Density to place a
larger-than-life mixed reality dragon into the center of the arena at
the 2017 League of Legends World Championship.
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ILMxLAB: ILMxLAB Director of Content and
Platform Strategy Mohen Leo detailed how the studio continues to
deliver top Unreal-powered VR/AR/MR experiences such as "Star Wars:
Secrets of the Empire" with The VOID, and director Alejandro
González Iñárritu's Oscar-winning Carne y Arena.
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Games.
Jobs. Beer.: The Unreal development community are front and
center at GDC, with teams coming from around the world to share their
brilliant creations across mobile, VR, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and
Nintendo Switch. Epic's traditional location on the GDC expo floor at
South 423 will host technology, tool demos, and business meetings, and
this year Epic is also hosting a dedicated booth at South 801 just for
games and recruitment. Visitors can play the latest and most
anticipated Unreal Engine games, talk with the developers behind them,
pick up free swag and connect with recruiters looking to hire Unreal
Engine talent.
Looking to the Future
About Unreal Engine
Developed by Epic Games, Unreal Engine is a complete suite of tools that
empowers creators to bring real-time, high-fidelity experiences to PC,
console, mobile, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR)
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, such as automotive, architecture, film,
science, aerospace, marketing and education. Download Unreal for free at unrealengine.com
and follow @UnrealEngine
for updates.
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