Make Something Unreal Winners Announced

The Make Something Unreal Finalists have been whittled down to the last and the Contest Winners have been announced. The grand prize (A full Unreal engine license and $50,000) for a mod goes to Red Orchestra, Russians vs. Germans in The Great Patriotic War. First place for an UT movie goes to Journey, and is well worth the download time.

Comments

German Wins

[Shadow_139]

SS German Elite Wins every time...
http://www.furnitureforthepeople.com/actpat.htm/

Re:German Wins

[homeobocks]

SS German Elite Wins every time...

. . . except in Nebraska.

Oh cool!

[GojiN]

Another WW2 game enters the retail market. Glad something innovative won MSU...

Re:Oh cool!

[WhiteBandit]

Yeah, I was hoping Air Buccaneers would win (they received third place). Definitely a fun mod when lots of people are playing. A kind of unique concept as well.

What the... ?!

[Grinnblade]

Why would they need an Unreal license? Didn't they already make the movie? (remembers Unreal engine license == legal mod) ... Oh... well, yeah, that's right. Nevermind, carry on.

torrents?

[teh_dg]

As is to be expected, some of the bigger files are downloading slowly, I'm currently downloading the 210mb of bot (2nd place movie) goodness at about 15kb/s.

Any torrents (or at least major mirrors) going around for the bigger files?

Re:torrents?

[AhBeeDoi]

I'm getting it a 2.5kb/s. It'll take about 24 hours at this rate.

Prize?

[Anonymous Coward]

So, the grand prize isn't $1,000,000? Do they call it the $1,000,000 contest because that's what the license is worth? If that's the case, it's a serious scam, in my book. I understand the value of a license, but I know most people thought the prize was actually the money... not just $50,000, but the whole million.

Re:Prize?

[EnderWigginsXenocide]

Speaking of the prize, come tax time will the winners have to declare $1,000,000 in income? Valueable goods (a software licens) is as taxable as cold hard cash. A million $US would put anyone into the top tax bracket, and with only $50,000 cash the winner could be in for a big suprize come tax time!

Re:Prize?

[EnderWigginsXenocide]

So, the grand prize isn't $1,000,000? Do they call it the $1,000,000 contest because that's what the license is worth? If that's the case, it's a serious scam, in my book. I understand the value of a license, but I know most people thought the prize was actually the money... not just $50,000, but the whole million.

Speaking of the prize, come tax time will the winners have to declare $1,000,000 in income? Valueable goods (a software licens) is as taxable as cold hard cash. A million $US would put anyone into the top tax bracket, and with only $50,000 cash the winner could be in for a big suprize come tax time!

Re:Prize?

[KDR_11k]

The prizes given out during the entire contest total 1MUSD. That's a common advertising tactic for lotteries and the like, always listing the total value of all prices involved instead of the most valuable price one participant can win.

Re:Prize?

[inkless1]

actually the total prizes is over one mill, but it sounds better for marketing.

And yes, the winners are responsible for declaring their wins on the taxes.

UnWheel

[Neo-Rio-101]

I thought the "UnWheel" mod, announced on the finalists list for the competition, was quite innovative, if very unpolished. It used the Unreal game physics to do a complete makeover with vehicles, which it did quite successfully (except the computer AI is non-existant at the moment.)

It reminded me of the joys of playing "Hard Drivin'" for the first time. Trying to drive the slow moving School Bus up the loop, only to get halfway and watch it fall back on itself from a 3rd person perspective was the best part.

so they can sell something

[Vitriolix]

well, now they have a free license to build a commecial game, which means they need to come up with $350,000 less initial investment to get a small company started. sounds like a good deal to me :)

Maps

[BriniestMark]

Just playing the maps that were made for the contest, I'm already impressed. Playing Deathmatch on an abandoned farm or a museum is awesome!

I like AirBuccaneers

[istewart]

Some of the most innovative gameplay I've seen in an FPS. Needs a little more polish, but I hope the devs will stick with it. I quit due to WoW but I'm gonna get back into it now that I've got a faster box.

Re:I like AirBuccaneers

[maxogden]

Agreed, AirBucs is truely one of the most fun games ive ever played... theres something about the forced teamwork aspect of it...its just plain fun :D

Not quite

[ReKleSS]

The total prize pool is $1,000,000, divided across the four phases and... erm... I can't be bothered counting the categories. The license isn't included in the prize total (the $$$ came from nvidia, the license came from epic).
--ReK

Too late... The Community is dead

[slot32]

UT2k4 is a fractioned community... Too many game types... Even the 4 team TDM/CTF/ONS didn't win anyone back... UT2k4 was killed off my the lack of support (Epic AND Atari), rife cheating (and no fixes after Wormbo threw in the towel), and constant in-fighting about brightskins and weapon nerfing and other petty stuff... UT is *so* dead... Now MSU is finished, even the modders will be off...