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Make Something Unreal Winners Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the to-the-victors-go-the-spoils dept.

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.

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  1. German Wins by Shadow_139 · · Score: 1, Informative

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

    1. Re:German Wins by homeobocks · · Score: 1
      SS German Elite Wins every time...
      . . . except in Nebraska.
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  2. Oh cool! by GojiN · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    1. Re:Oh cool! by WhiteBandit · · Score: 3, Interesting

      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.

  3. What the... ?! by Grinnblade · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  4. torrents? by teh_dg · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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?

    1. Re:torrents? by AhBeeDoi · · Score: 1

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

  5. UnWheel by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  6. so they can sell something by Vitriolix · · Score: 3, Informative

    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 :)

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  7. I like AirBuccaneers by istewart · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:I like AirBuccaneers by maxogden · · Score: 1

      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

  8. Re:Prize? by EnderWigginsXenocide · · Score: 1
    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!

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  9. Not quite by ReKleSS · · Score: 1

    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).
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  10. Re:Prize? by KDR_11k · · Score: 1

    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.

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  11. Re:Prize? by inkless1 · · Score: 1

    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.