International game company Epic Games andVision Technology Co-host announced on the 14th Unreal Engine 5 For the Taiwan Game Creative Design Competition, students from colleges and universities in Taiwan are invited to sign up individually or in groups. In the one-year competition, they can exert their creativity and create a work of their own.
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Epic Games and Weijing Technology have held two Unreal Engine 4 game design competitions from 2016 to 2018, which not only inspired many refreshing and excellent works during the competition, but also promoted more than 10 colleges and universities to start classes. The talent cultivation of Unreal Engine 4 is carried out in the form of lectures and workshops. In April this year, when Epic Games launched the latest generation of Unreal Engine 5, this competition was held to take root from the grassroots level and use the game engine technology with far-reaching influence, hoping to promote the upgrading of Taiwan’s game industry.
In this press conference, Wu Hao, Managing Director of UE Greater China of Epic Games, the organizer, participated in and shared the important achievements of Unreal Engine in the world and the vision of holding this competition in Taiwan by video; The Ministry of Industry Bureau was represented by Lin Junxiu, the leader of the Electronic Information Group, and delivered a speech. Liu Xin, the chairman of the Taiwan Game Industry Promotion Association, the co-organizer, also attended the venue to give a speech, and participated in the release of this event.
At the same time, nearly 20 department heads or teachers from game and multimedia-related departments in Taiwan’s colleges and universities also attended the press conference. With the assistance and promotion of relevant educational institutions and professionals, it is hoped that more talents using Unreal Engine 5 will be nurtured in Taiwan, and the game industry will move towards a new path of more professionalism and internationalization.
The Unreal Engine 5 Taiwan Game Creative Design Competition is open for registration from the 14th until June 20, 2023, and the deadline for receipts is June 30, 2023. The application qualifications are students from various colleges and universities. The collected works are not limited to game categories. Game works are eligible for gold/silver/bronze awards. Non-game works (such as animation, movies, etc.) have outstanding performance. There will be separate selections and special awards will be given. The competition is mixed by individuals or groups, and the participation of groups is not limited. The selection criteria for this competition are:
·Creative performance (30%) ·Overall program, art, sound effects, interface presentation (30%) ·Technical ability, production quality (30%) ·Marketability (10%)
The top three prizes of the competition are NT$200,000, 120,000 and 80,000 respectively. The five best works are each NT$20,000. The instructors of the winners will also provide guidance bonuses. In addition, all those who are selected will receive a prize. Finalist Award. Winners will be announced on the event website on July 20, 2023, and an awards ceremony will be held on July 24, 2023.
Unreal Engine 5 is the latest generation version of Unreal Engine developed by Epic Games. The two core technologies of Unreal Engine 5, one of which is “Nanite”, can help developers to achieve high performance without paying attention to scene and model complexity. The detailed photography source material is imported into the advanced technology of the game, which is used to deal with the complex geometry in the game scene; the third is “Lumen”, which provides dynamic global lighting, instantly responds to changes in the scene and light source, and has high-quality multiple bounces. Diffuse indirect light and specular reflection effects greatly improve image quality and improve project iteration time. With the injection of two major technologies and a number of technological improvements, it achieves realistic visual effects like movies and the real world. More and more well-known game masterpieces are announced to use Unreal Engine 5 for development, such as “Tomb Raider”, “The Witcher” and “Black Myth: Wukong”, to create a lifelike 3D game world.
Zhan Chenghan, CEO of Weijing Technology, the co-organizer, said in his speech: Taiwanese students who are interested in game development can take advantage of the Unreal Engine 5 Taiwan Game Creative Competition to seize the rare opportunity to communicate with Epic Games and master the development of Unreal Engine 5. technology, so as to be in line with the mainstream technology in the international market.
Unreal Engine 5 Taiwan Game Creative Competition Registration Website