Summer UE4jam! June 29th - July 4th - THEME: BLESSING IN DISGUISE

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THE WINNERS
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TOP 3 **
**(Fun, Visuals, and Use of Theme)
****Robots on a Budget by The Retros
****Buckarunicorn by islipaway
****The Potato Problem by Team Potato
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VR Award
****Monster Defense Shop by
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Android Award
****Wanderer VR by MadTitans
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Cinematic Award
****The Trial by Team Miaow

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Welcome to the UE4jam! Every quarter Unreal Engine hosts the UE4jam to give developers a to polish their skills and compete for awesome prizes!

THE RULES
Work alone or with a team (up to 5 members) to make the most incredible project based on the theme in Unreal Engine 4, and submit before the deadline. Please read all of the details for how to participate!

Detailed Rules

CONTEST OFFICIAL RULES

All submissions will be featured in a highlight reel posted to our YouTube and shown on Twitch.

PROJECT REQUIREMENTS
Here’s the list of submission requirements to win a prize:

The game must include custom gameplay that exceeds that found in Epic Games’ starter templates.

All art assets in the game must have a material other than the default applied to it.

Must be packaged for Android (unfortunately there are limitations with iOS), Windows or Mac OS. No full, unpackaged projects. VR projects are accepted. Android games can be distributed via the Play store as well.

**TIMELINE DETAILS AND HOW TO SUBMIT AN ENTRY **

In Unreal Engine game jam tradition, we’ll be kicking this one off and announcing the theme on the livestream on June 29th at 2PM ET](Time since Jun 29, 2017 2:00 pm started in Raleigh) and giving participants a few days to create and submit an awesome game built in the engine. The SUBMISSION THREAD will go live and be available just before the theme is announce. The jam ends on Tuesday, July 4th at 2PM ET](Time since Jul 4, 2017 2:00 pm started in Raleigh).

Post the following to the submission thread before ** Tuesday, July 4th at 2PM ET**](Time since Jul 4, 2017 2:00 pm started in Raleigh) and include this info:

Link to a download of your game

Team name

List of team members

Name of your submission (Please format it with your team’s name attached ex. TeamName_GameName)

Please remember to rename your project to [Team Name]_[Project Name] ex. TheEpicTeam_AwesomeGame

List any content that was created before the jam that was included in the final submission.

This does affect the score, as we judge on what is made during the jam’s timeframe. Submitting an entry with pre-made content that is not disclosed may lead to disqualification.

Then, PM me the following information:

Team Name

Project Name

Each Team Member’s Real Name

Each Team Member’s Email Address

Each Team Member’s Mailing Address (Not a P.O. box)

Each Team Member’s T-Shirt Size

If the address is not in the United States, please also provide:
Phone number for lost postage reclaim
Tax or VAT number (if applicable)

AWARD CATEGORIES AND PRIZES

A small panel at Epic will judge entries on the following criteria.
Major Categories:

Fun Factor

Unique Use of Theme

Overall Visuals

Specialty Categories:

Best Mobile Title (Android)

Best VR Game

Best Cinematic

Winners will be announced on the July 20th Unreal Livestream which starts at 2PM ET.

The winners of all categories will receive an Epic Swag Box with all sorts of goodies, a “Game Jam Finalist” forum badge, a featured playthrough on the Twitch stream. The winners of the Major Categories will also receive a highlight on Unreal Engine launcher!

INTEL

All members of the teams who win the Major Categories will receive a 730 Series 2.5 480GB SATA 6Gb/s MLC Solid State Drive provided by Intel’s Achievement Unlocked program. Join them and sign up to receive monthly game developer content, special offers, announcements, and news about events like the Level Up contest.

SIDEFX HOUDINI

In addition to the Epic Swag Box, each member of the winning teams of the Major and Specialty categories will be receiving a one-year Houdini license provided by SideFX. Houdini is an amazing tool can be used with UE4 through the official Houdini plugin.

C-MEDIA

All finalists will also be receiving marketplace packs from C-MEDIA, which specializes in advanced materials and realistic models Ancient Cistern, Advanced Materials Edition 2, and Advanced Materials Edition 4.

KUBOLD

Kubold is providing 8 animation collections from their humanoid Marketplace animation packs. These animation sets are built for movement and all sorts of combat; fisticuffs, swordplay and firearms! They make a fine addition to any game.

SYNTY STUDIOS

Synty Studios joined our sponsors for the Summer Jam and will be providing their Marketplace packs to the UE4jam finalists as well. There are several awesome collections of models that can be used over a wide variety of projects. Their simply designed characters and environments are great for stylized games or prototyping.

LUOS ARTS

Luos Arts is run by Yoeri Vleer, who is well known for his particle effects. Luos Arts is contributing prizes to all category winners, who will be able to pick 3 of their packs from the marketplace as their reward! Please take a look at all of their packs on the marketplace. Also be sure to look into Yoeri’s youtube page and twitter account for more particle effects.

PERFORCE SERVER PROVIDED BY

All participants of the UE4jam will be given access to 's platform for game development teams to build iterations of their game using their Perforce repositories. As a project management platform, is an effective asset to any gaming developer, and we are excited to watch ’s continuing emergence within the game development community. To get access to the Perforce server, PM me that you will need access and your team’s email addresses. Please also check out tutorials on using and Perforce beforehand.

is the task and code management tool that enables game developers to manage their entire game project in one place. As the only on-demand Perforce provider in the cloud and the #1 SVN hosting provider in the world, developers all over the world choose for their high performance and security needs.

Participating Teams
In order to streamline the playing, judging, recording, and winners announcement process, we’re requesting that teams participating in the jam let us know beforehand in order to prepare appropriately for the event. We’ll update the list with links to the games afterwards, too, so can find your title without having to scroll through the whole thread Pre-registration is not required for entry, and we know people will come in later, but it will greatly aid us in turning everything around quickly. We appreciate your help in making this event awesome

Please send me a PM with your team name and number of team members and we’ll get you added to the list! If you have not made enough posts to use the PM system, then feel free to post in the thread here instead.

1. WANDERER VR - MadTitans

2. The Trial - Team Miaow

3. Glück Im Unglück - Coffee Cup Entertainment

4. BlessingInDaSkies - Strigifo

5. Robots on a Budget - The Retros

6. The Potato Problem - Team Potato

7. Buckarunicorn - islipaway

8. Monster Defense Shop -

9. Fatlust - 3D2 Entertainment

10. Hero Overboard! - Boilerplate

11. Blessing In Disguise - Degenerate Vertices

12. ARTribe - NedulM

13. The Entropic Shop - Big Horn Studio

14. Season’s Blessings - &

15. Mr Undertaker - The Warriors

16. Pa’Roll - Bear²

17. Hearsin Around - Dev Nation

18. Fatal Exception - David M

19. His Story - Miroir Industries

20. WarriorsTomb - Pizzazz Games

21. Healer - Girl and a Cat

22. Left Behind - AtomicKopi

23. ION

24. DeadMind - 021 Studios

25. Hunt the Blessing - Team4

26. Salt Lubbers - Five Guys

27. Snail Life blessing in disguise -

28. Goanna’s Swing - Team Goanna

29. -

30. Lights and Shadows - Warp Studios

31. SquareMan - MoltenPixels

32. Blessed Soul - Shaunathon6

33. Manic D. Kahn - MDK

34. Sneak Street 2 - Aristonaut

35. Ownrealeditor - owninator

36. Reunion - Event Horizon

37. Agent Blessing - Slim Pickings

38. -

39. BloodMudFireMask - The Wild Games

40. Agent Blessing - Bladekyle.

41. Spoopy Jr. Is Done With Spooping - Burtfire

42. DGIN -

43. Attack of the Mutant Bungles and the Conveniently Inconvenient Bungle Invasion - Connor and the Wigglywams

44. AnotherFace - BegounetTeam

45. What Doesn’t Kill - Stab

46. BlessingInDeath - Room 144

47. Overgrown Dreams - Broken Palace

48. “Ghost” - Digital Spirit Games]( Summer #UE4jam Submission Thread! - Announcements - Epic Developer Community Forums)

49. KindgomTwitch - NedulS

50. Demon Bot - Nightmare

51. A House??? - Side Step Studios

52. Terrestial - Aberry Games

53. Search - ZeeGee

54. Blessing in a Dice - Enter Studios

55. Disguise - Team Remco

56. SoulFetcher - XCave Games

57. Silent Escape - Empr1ze

58. The Villainous Pie-man - Bohrium

59. Adventures of Retlif - 5 Rune Studios

60. The Lich - Dot Info

61. Postworld Scavenger - Screwdriver Entertainment

62. TRASH McKANN - JoSilver

63. Misfit -

64. TheLightDark - Gordo Co. Games

65. NarcolepsyBoy - ADsZ Team

66. The Phantom Hand - StormSmashEntertainment

67. Spirit of Perseus - Little Apple Creative

68. The Lost Song VR 1 (Prologue): A True Artist - Artisans of Reality

69. Desert Madness - Hexeva

70. KSIGames

71. Per Aspera Ad Bonum - Play For Food

72. CurseSpirit -

73. VR Run and Gun - Beep2Bleep

74. Dear Child - Fresh Lemonade

75. Traitor returns home - Horacio Meza

76. Polarity - Cerebros Games

77. Savior - Perfect design

78. BLESSING OF Dcriste - Sonder Games

79. Ignis - League of Shinies

80. Bless dis - Nightjar Jamjar

81. TheBID - PA

82. Trailer Quest for toilet paper - AWESOME GAMES INTERACTIVE

83. -

84. Blessing in Disguise! - Elements.of.Life

85. Happy Kracken

86. Doggy! - Techi-tech

87. The Island -

88. Uncle Sam’s Salvation - Néotl Empire

89. Counting Your Blessings - Cyber Shamans

90. Cursed Fight - TwoPOneA

91. UnrealCG_Shinigami Shrine - UnrealCG

92. Three Brothers - Luke is bad at team names

93. Intramundos - MMs

94. Don’t Look Up - Succubi in Hats

95. Zesty Summer - Lava Bear

96. Spoop Manager 2018 - Super Passion Team

97. RetroSlice - raincoatz hood

98. Crave - The Unknowns

99. Escape - JW

100. Escape Elipshid - Shoreline Horizons

101. Cook for the Giant - Vhite Rabbit

102. Finding Light - Hadar Silverman

103. Through foul and fail - Team GamePlayUniverse

104. Bles Sing in Disguise - Lo-Rez

105. BLE Sings in Disguise - HoM E’s

106. Blightwood - Sky Key

107. Gold-Hat Gets a Book -

108. Struggle - Peanut Rangers

109. T2Virus:Consciousness Remains - Inspired Workshop

110. Mark’s New Shoes -

111. Jimmy’s Ghostly Tale - Pentrometric Studios

112. Runic - Daddycats

113. Rootie - no_coffee

114. SpartanX - Slothy Entertainment

115. FAVOR - Broliai

116. Blessing In The Sky - Team Heaven

117. SUPER STICK FIGURES - Doge Hunter

118. Wizards Curse - Team Dead Deer

119. Hinupolis - Feverdream Studios

120. Percussive Maintenance - Team Squeakinator

121. Inferno - Liduos Games

122. Please don’t die! - VoxBros

123. Blessing In Dream - Roh Brothers.

124. DarkFrag - Lone Artisan

125. How I Met Your Mother - TiMer Games

126. Mission Allergic - Space Skeletons and Co

127. Act II - Beard Envy

128. Blessing - Chimera

129. NoMoreBlessing -

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