2008 UT3 Mod Contest Announced -- 1,000,000$ in Prizes

[Phopojijo]

http://www.makesomethingunreal.com/

Once again Epic Games is paying people to mod Unreal Tournament 3!

In this contest -- you can submit your work into any category (Best level, best mutator, best external development tool {WOTGreal will most likely win this one though}, etc.) in various phases.

Prizes will be given for {typically 1st, 2nd, 3rd place}.

The grand prize is a royalty-free Unreal Engine 3 license to make your very own marketable game off of.

Get moddin' folks! Phase 1 closes June 17th, 2008!

Remember -- it doesn't *have* to be a mod!

There are prizes for Machinima movies using Kismet and Matinee...

Likewise there are prizes for custom applications. Could be something like -- oh I don't know -- a Maya Hypershade to Unreal Material package exporter? UnrealScript IDE {Even though WOTGreal has that locked}?

[Sel]

Holy shit that is awesome.

Unfortunately I dont have UT3, otherwise Id jump right in.

[Phopojijo]

You could always pick it up o.o The collector's edition would be best because of 3dBuzz's tutorials... but the regular UT3 obviously comes with the editor as well.

That assumes you're serious about it.

[sdavis117]

Royalty free engine!?!?!?!

Count me in. I would love to make my own game. Royalty free too.

[Phopojijo]

Royalty free engine!?!?!?!

Count me in. I would love to make my own game. Royalty free too.

Remember -- that's the *grand prize*

It's submission date is August 31st, 2009 -- and it's pretty much required to be a TC.

[Ki11a_FTW]

does it say anything about team mates, i didnt see that

[DaneO'Roo]

Oh fuck yeah. See, this is why epic is awesome.

[Phopojijo]

does it say anything about team mates, i didnt see that

Teams can be any size you wish... however only ONE person will claim the prize... it's up to your trust in him/her to distribute the earnings properly. That one person is the person who submits the mod.

You can also, last I heard, enter in as many sections as you wish and submit as much work as you care to do. From what I read though -- if you submit the same map in Phase 2, and 3, and 4 (or whatever) it needs to satisfy 2 conditions:

1) There needs to be a reasonable level of enhancement
2) Your entrance in the later phases forfeits your position in the earlier phases of the same category with the same mod. {Earlier phases have less prizes... however less entrants and less quality per entry as well... so the bar is lower}

[DaneO'Roo]

Well, I better start work on my family of characters

[LlamaMaster]

Ouch, this is harsh. Great time to have a computer that can't run UT3...