Make Something Unreal winners announced
At this year's Gadget Show Live, Dead Shark Triplepunch took home the first prize in Make Something Unreal Live 2013, the annual competition from Epic where students enter games in a bid to be granted a commercial Unreal Engine 4 licence.
The team, that hails from the Belkinge Institute of Technology in Sweden, won with their game Epigenesis, which was developed with the free version of Epic's Unreal Engine 3.
The game won votes from a judging panel, industry advisors and the popular vote from people visiting the show. The panel consisted of some notable names, including Peter Molyneux, Epic's Mike Gamble, and Jo Twist - the head of UKIE.
"It's been clear from the early stages of the competition that Epigenesis has the potential to be a commercially viable game," said Epic's Mike Gamble. "In giving Dead Shark Triplepunch a UE3 licence specifically for Epigenesis we want to enable them to bring this title to market in the shortest possible time and see them on their way to becoming a fully-fledged independent games development studio."
This year, however, there were two winners, as second place team Kairos Games also were granted a UE3 license, so they can bring their game - Polymorph - to market as well.
Gamble concluded: "The judges felt that there were two games this year worthy of commercial release in the short term, and so we have also awarded Kairos with a UE3 licence in order to complete and publish its game Polymorph."
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