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DICE 2010: Epic Games Awards Winners of Intel $1 Million Make Something Unreal Contest

Mark Rein awards the best Unreal mod game creators with cash and prizes at DICE 2010
Article | 02.18.10 | By John Gaudiosi
Epic Games' Mark Rein awards winners at DICE 2010

At a luncheon co-sponsored with Intel at this week’s 2010 D.I.C.E. Summit (www.dicesummit.org) in Las Vegas, Nevada, Epic Games announced the grand prize winners in its $1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest. Designed to help independent and aspiring game developers learn Unreal Engine 3 technology and gain recognition for authoring high-quality game experiences, the competition rewards top modifications, or “mods,” created for Unreal Tournament 3 with cash and hardware prizes in four preliminary phases and a grand final judging.

 

The grand prize winning mod team was awarded an Unreal Engine 3 commercial license in addition to a check for $50,000, with runner-up winners receiving $40,000, $30,000, $20,000 and $10,000 in cash prizes. Educational category winners also received a total of $25,000 in cash, for a grand total well in excess of $1 million in cash and prizes awarded through all phases of the competition.
 
“Intel is committed to unleashing game developer innovation,” said Elliot Garbus, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Visual Computing Software Division. “The $1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest has delivered some of the most creative and professional Unreal Tournament 3 game mods ever. This contest is just one of the ways that Intel’s Visual Adrenaline developer program has encouraged developers to get the most out of PC game play and there is no better time to experience
Unreal Tournament 3 and these creative mods than on Intel’s new 2010 Intel® Core™ processor family”
 
“We’re beyond impressed with the level of talent we’ve uncovered as a result of our latest Make Something Unreal Contest,” said Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games. “The mastery of the Unreal Engine 3 tools shown by these teams is fantastic. This year’s winners have created the most ambitious mods we’ve seen to date. We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to help these gifted programmers, designers and artists launch their professional careers.”
 
The grand prize winners in the Best Game Mod category can be viewed at www.makesomethingunreal.com and are recognized as follows:
 
First Place: The Haunted by Michael Hegemann and The Haunted Team
Prize: $50,000 + commercial license for Unreal Engine 3
http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/mod/the-haunted.aspx
 
Second Place: The Ball by Toltec Studios
Prize: $40,000
http://www.fileplanet.com/193016/190000/fileinfo/Unreal-Tournament-3---The-Ball:-Cahua
 
Third Place: Angels Fall First: Planetstorm by the AFF: Planetstorm team
Prize: $30,000
http://www.fileplanet.com/193254/190000/fileinfo/Unreal-Tournament-3---Angels-Fall-First:-Planetstorm
 
Fourth Place: Prometheus by Rachel Cordone and The Prometheus team
Prize: $20,000
http://www.fileplanet.com/200335/200000/fileinfo/Unreal-Tournament-3---Prometheus-Client
 
Fifth Place: Hazard: The Journey of Life by Alexander Bruce
Prize: $10,000
http://www.fileplanet.com/204630/200000/fileinfo/Unreal-Tournament-3---Hazard:-The-Journey-Of-Life
 
The grand prize winners in the Educational category are recognized as follows:
 
First Place: IT University of Copenhagen
(Steam Racers, The Witching Hour, Cubes of Serenity, Chalupa, Takeshi’s Gladiators)
Prize: $10,000
 
Second Place: Art Institute of California, L.A.
(UT2D Killing Time, vCTF-Boilerplate Team Art Mod, Millagun UT2D, Deadman's Tales)
Prize: $5,000
 
Third Place: Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia
(Hazard: The Journey of Life, Steel Halo)
Prize: $5,000
 
Fourth Place: Högskolan i Skövde, Sweden
(Sanctum)
Prize: $5,000
 
Many exceptional mods are being ported to the recently released Unreal Development Kit (UDK), the free edition of Unreal Engine 3 that provides uncompromised access to the same award-winning toolset used by many of the world’s best game developers. UDK games require no additional software for installation, so anyone can easily try them out. Demo versions of Prometheus and The Ball are available now as free UDK downloads at www.udk.com/showcase. 

 

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