Epic Games has always been committed to fostering the growth of video game development amongst students and schools since CEO Tim Sweeney founded the company in 1991. With Unreal Engine 4, Epic first provided discounted rates and eventually free usage of the engine to the academic community, and also began awarding no-strings-attached grants (a program totalling $5 million), as part of their Unreal Dev Grants initiative, to students earlier this year.
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With UE4, students have the opportunity to use the engine at no cost and create studio-quality work, and therefore stand out from the crowd. The Epic team is proud to provide a gateway for the next generation of developers, and recently compiled a sizzle reel of a few amazing student projects.
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“Small student teams all over the world are doing amazing, pro-caliber work in Unreal Engine,” remarked Luis Cataldi, education evangelist for Epic Games. “There were many noteworthy projects from top schools to choose from when building this reel. It’s exciting to see students from all levels of education embracing Unreal Engine 4 to help achieve their dreams and career goals.”
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You can find more information below on the featured students and their schools, including Savannah College of Art and Design, NHTV University of Applied Sciences, NAD UQAC, DigiPen Institute of Technology and many more. Check out the impressive student work being done in UE4 here.
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School: SCAD
Students: Brandon Swan, Everett gunther, Esther Nho, Abraham Plato, Rachel Geiger, Emily Katske, Tim Camey, Thomas Jackson, Cody Ojea,
- Battery Jam is a 4 player local competitive battle game.
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School: SCAD
Students: Zack Bogucki, Amanda Newman, Saimon Ma, John Dunford, Casey Arterburn, Melanie Stern, Alejandro Saab, Brandon Swan,
- Deep Siege is a cooperative survival game that demands 3 players defend a Jules Verne-inspired submarine from a giant sea monster.
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School: SCAD
Students: Caitlin Capes, Madeleine Tate, Marc Jacobs, Paul Shields, Andy Simons, Zachary Rudolph, Alex Ordansa, Qwenn Parker, Rene Fisher, Isabelle Boothe, Raed Al Amoudi External Talent: Edil Ostolaza, Corey Ross, Kevin Kalbfeld, Constance Bensen, Dionysius Vlachos, Louis Emmi, Jai Berger, Kenneshia Cox, Nikki Myers, Henry Godwin, Marinna Guzy, Melanie Stern, Nicholas O’Connor, Madeleine Wahl, Steffi Walthall, Grace Han, Samantha Masse, Katie Stone, Maria Mora, Trent Fogleman, Dylan Ruggiero,, –
- Grave Mistakes is an action adventure game that starts when a spirit is awoken from death into a spirit world controlled by voodoo gods.
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School: NAD/UQAC
Students: Geneviève Gagnon, Stéphanie Ducasse, Laurence Soulard Thérien, Florin Popescu, Patrice Pednault, Brian Fillion, Martin Lavoie, Anthony Gallant,
- Quanta is a two player game that tells the story of a character whose essence is out of sync, separated into two facets of his personality.
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School: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Students: Riley Pannkuk, Eric Lynum, Daniel Frisbie, Garrett Woodford, Justin Cook, Nathan Hitchcock, David Browne, Katerina Arrington, Dillon Herick, Vicky Wong, Michael Hall, Jose Vargas, Irene Chin, Johnathan Henke, Sion Jang, Zachary Mitchell, Ryan Scott, Ry Soderberg
- RumbleTV is a multiplayer first person shooter with MOBA elements where players pick one of three types of convicts and fight for freedom on a prison planet for live entertainment.
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School: NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences
Student: Wilbert Oosterom
- L’atelier is a garden of the studio of a fictional impressionist painter in the Parisian district Montmartre.
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School: NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences
Student: Max Berends, Anastasia Opara, Jeroen van Dongen, Anna Richter, Loek Gijsbertse, Corne Willemsen, Baiba Gedrovica, Tim Paauwe.
- Total Recall is a next-gen game level build in Unreal Engine 4.7.
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