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Make Something Unreal Announces First Winners

Posted by simoniker on from the mod-content-madness dept.

Thanks to PlanetUnreal for their news that the first-round winners of Epic/Atari's 'Make Something Unreal' FPS modding competition have been announced, with "the winners of the first-of-four contest rounds taking home a share of $50,000 in cash and high-end PC equipment." According to the linked press release: "The winning [Unreal-specific] mods include Deathball (the first place winner), which is a futuristic soccer/lacrosse/football-like sport, and fourth-place winner Jupiter Effect: Influx, which was created as an art school project and is an anime inspired battle between giant robots." The Make Something Unreal official page also has details and links to the winners, also noting that "the contest is one year long and set to conclude in the fall of 2004."

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  1. deathball sounds like... by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 2, Insightful

    BOMBING RUN?!

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    1. Re:deathball sounds like... by schapman · · Score: 3, Insightful

      it does seem like they extended the bombing run game type... When we were doing out projects in school... we were doing Total Conversions... there were: Jupiter Effect: 3rd person mech Asylum: ( - i worked on this one) a fps/horror game And some sort of dream one.. had some AMAZING lev design. (3rd person platformer) And another called Chronicles of Cythera that i worked on... 3rd person fantasy/platformer

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  2. Spectator sports by SamSim · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most deathmatches are pretty difficult to follow, even for the players - and team-based games like CS only really make sense from the point of view of one of the players. From a spectator's point of view these games are lacking. What I'd really like to see is a mod of some sort which is DESIGNED to turn Unreal into a spectator sport, designed to be interesting and comprehensible to newcomers and veteran players alike. This would stand a better chance of bringing televised gaming to the public than current titles.

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