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Mastering Unreal With Instruction Videos

Posted by simoniker on from the next-course-on-mastering-prey dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a HomeLan Fed interview with Jason Busby of 3D Buzz, talking about the Mastering Unreal project, an Epic-backed service which releases free, downloadable videos teaching users how to create levels, vehicles, AI, and whole mods for Unreal Tournament 2K3. According to Busby, "Currently, we have 64 videos available for download.. the videos themselves range anywhere from 20 minutes to two hours, depending on what is being covered and the amount of information that we must get across to the student." This project is running in conjunction with the Make Something Unreal mod competition we covered a few days ago, and seems like a very positive step to help people get creative and make cool new game mods/assets.

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  1. Tax write-off? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can these be written off on your taxes as an educational expense?

  2. Confession by Universal+Nerd · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I only buy games from community-friendly companies.

    Since buying software is my way of showing my pathetic and near-worthless support for companies I only dish out money to software houses that, IMHO, deserve a cent - Bioware and Maxis are my favorite game companies (Epic and Id are cool too, but mostly because of UT and Quake). I'll dish out money happily to buy the originals.

    Saying that, I'm gonna go buy a copy of UT 2k3 just because they're cool, they deserve my hard-earned cash.

    BTW, I know it's just "business" for them and that they're not trying to be cool for free, but confess, that's a pretty nice gesture from Epic, supporting the Mod community by increasing their proficiency.

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  3. good guy by bigbigbison · · Score: 3, Interesting

    this guy was on techtv a little while ago. He does tons of these videotaped tutorials all for free. If you don't have braodband he will burn a copy for you and mailit to you for free. An amazing ammount of work that he is doing all for free.

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  4. good by Flunitrazepam · · Score: 2, Interesting

    After hearing how great the engine is for making mods, I really expected some kick-ass work to be out there by this point... I hope this jump-starts the process. Maybe if someone recoded CS using this engine we could finally get the vast gaming majority to convince their mom's to upgrade their computers beyond pentium 400's

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