Massive Unreal 2K3 Mod Contest Launched

code-e255 writes "Epic Games, the developers of Unreal Tournament 2003, and nVidia have announced a huge UT2K3 modification contest called 'Make Something Unreal'. This competition will reward the truly great modders out there, and will hopefully encourage more people to mod for UT2K3." Word is that "..entries can be made in 13 categories, including 'Best Mod,' 'Best Character,' 'Best Use of 3D Sound,' 'Best Real-Time Non-Interactive Movie (also known as Machinima),' and more", and prizes include over $1,000,000 in total, with first prize $50,000 and a $350,000-value commercial Unreal Engine license.

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Sounds fun

[mao che minh]

If the UT2003 development community is as intellectual as their gaming community is, then this competition should turn out some truly compelling work. Code comments such as "// y0 dis hack here fukc u awp phag - ((COK))". Team disputes over a certain code submission or design alteration will be settled "1 on 1 in dm61a bi0tch". The Epic Games team, before walking into an audience filled with eager designers awaiting the announcement of the winners, peek their heads in and ask "FF?".

I plan on making a Slashdot mod based off of Slashdot Reloaded. All of the agent Smiths will be rendered in ASCII.

go ahread and take 'em!

[sweeney37]

MOD Ideas:

Hillary Rosen: The MP3 Hunter

"Executive by day, mercenary by night. If music is downloaded, she knows about it, and justice will be hers. Warning: This game include copious amounts of lawyers, therefore it may not be suitable for young children."

and of course:

Lee Carvallo's Extreme Putting Challenge!

Battle your friends in this knock-down, drag-out putting competion. It's in your face! In your mind! It's EXTREME!!

Re:go ahread and take 'em!

[heXXXen]

ball is in...parking lot. would you like to try again? you have selected....no.

Make Something Unreal

[Anonymous Coward]

In the spirit of the contest and to play to the sponsors, Iâ(TM)m going for a mod that artificially boosts the displayed FPS when running on an nVidia card.

Re:Make Something Unreal

[Cranx]

Faster framerates is cheating, isn't it? I don't want faster framerates if it comes with a "cheater" label, no sir. Not me, no way. Give me slower framerates and pat me on the head, please.

this should do it

[ozric99]

C:\Program Files\Sierra\HalfLife2> rename hl.exe ut2k3.exe

Re:this should do it

[The Creator]

Well the last article did teach us to reuse code.

SCO Headquarters Mod

[DoctorMabuse]

Kill SCO execs for fun and profit.

Anyone Interested?

[Iron Monkey543]

I can provide voice. Mine's pretty deep and orgasmic. lol. Let me know if you're interested!

Participation!

[Anonymous Coward]

I am going to participate. However, I will use an Ati Radeon 9800 Pro Card. I might get slightly slower frames-per-second, but the crowd will delight in the fully rendered scenes.

Re:Nice prizes

[ehiris]

I would be very careful of giving a job to somebody who wins an Unreal competition.

The UT2003 engine and...?

[brer_rabbit]

I suggest combining the UT engine with existing software:

UT2003 Word: you're weapons are literally A-Z

UT2003 Outlook: shoot the incoming virii and worms, penile erection mails act as a quad-damage

UT2003 Nethack: their's potential here...

UT2003 Emacs: M-x frag

UT2003 SCO: to consider this would be a thought crime

Best Driver Optimization!

[lcorc79]

Hmm, if nVidia is sponsoring this contest, is there a category for Best Driver "Optimization"? I've found that if I turn all scene rendering off, and have it output pure black, I can get an amazing framerates! I've even modified the drivers so it will only do this when you're benchmarking ... sure to be an invaluable mod.

NVidia mods for URT2k3

[Anonymous Coward]

I call this mod the NVIdia mod. It runs sort of the same program, gets different results, but does so really fast...