Today, we’re thrilled to announce and launch the first iteration of the brand-new Epic Developer Community!
To aid you in your Unreal Engine development journey, we’ve created this unified community platform that brings together forum discussions, Q&A, tutorials, courses, and snippets into a single platform. We want you to succeed—and by providing streamlined resources and a space for you to share your incredible work (with brand-new profiles!), we hope we can help.
The community is incredibly important to us, to Epic. We wouldn’t be here without your contributions, your feedback, and your passion to create. As many of us, myself included, have come from the modding, demoscene and indie communities, we recognize the time, energy, and soul that goes into each and every one of your projects, so here’s to you.
Use this platform to fuel your spark; share your creations, discoveries, solutions with one another and we’ll keep iterating it to make it the most powerful support it can be.
As the Epic Developer Community is built for you, and we’re not telepathic—yet—please share your feedback with us in the Feedback & Requests - Epic Developer Community Forums and let us know what you think. The site will see several iterations over the coming months and we want to be sure to mold it with your needs first and foremost.
Next steps
This is only phase one, and we expect that there will be a number of issues and improvements that will need our attention over the coming weeks.Here are a few areas we will be working on, in no particular order:
- Learning content rating and voting system
- Localization of the site interface and learning posts
- Updates on profile roles, badges, Community Heroes program - and the backend work to automate it
- SEO improvements
- General bug fixes and quality of life improvements
And whatever pops up and is identified as important by all of you as we put this new platform to the test!
Longer term
We envision significant continued development on the Epic Developer Community throughout the whole of 2022 and beyond. Our vision is to grow into a space for all creators and developers to excel, whether you use Unreal Engine, Epic Online Services, or any of the other Epic developer tools and services.
There will therefore be many more improvements and new features that we’ll be exploring over the course of the year. In time, we’ll share what major features you can expect, and circle back for your thoughts on what kind of functionality you’d expect to see.
Once again, thank you for joining us on this journey and we are so excited to build this together!
