Hi am Accell and i live in the UK.
I am a beginner/novice just coming into the gaming industry. Gaming is something that is part of my life that i highly value.
I’ve had a experience with programming to understand it good enough but to me using libraries to create pseudo engines and waiting for your game to compile just seemed boring and tedious and very very annoying to me. There are game engines created by experts which accelerate the workflow and productivity of the game one would want to make. So for a year now, I’ve been spending most of the year using DX11 and some other libraries such as PhysX and etc. and it just got no-where at all. So i decided to use a game engine. UDK didn’t have, in my opinion a good enough documentation. Unity 3D caught my interest. However, the documentation was kind of scattered and their tutorials are no-where near as good as Epic’s.
So then i saw UE4. Amazing. I was amazed by this. The price and license are honestly a bargain and an phenomenal deal. Tutorials are top notch and very newbie friendly. The BP system is amazingly well done and i don’t have to worry about writing thousand lines of code. The UI is much better. The Documentation is very helpful. The community (Although I’ve been lurking) is fantastic.
I just have to say, EPIC you truly did an EPIC! Job with UE4. UE4 gives me a chance to create something amazing without stress and gives me a good chance to create a game well.
Currently I am learning Maya but i have had a chance to play with Unreal and it is an A+++ quality engine.