News and Community Spotlight | August 31, 2023 | Unreal Engine

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*Anniversary Marketplace Sale: over 1,700 products—now 50% off*
Our ninth Marketplace anniversary sale is here! With over 1700 products now 50% off across props, characters, environments, sounds, Blueprints, systems, and more–the options for your current or next project are plentiful.

*Lies of P takes inspiration from Pinocchio, French history, and marries them with Soulslike combat*
grow in knowledge with our recent developer interview with NEOWIZ Games and Round8 Studio as they explain how they took inspiration from Pinocchio to deliver the fierce third-person action game Lies of P, created in Unreal Engine.

*Two high school friends used Unreal Engine 5.1 to create atmospheric retro shooter Kvark*
We chatted with two high-school friends who used Unreal Engine 5.1 to create the atmospheric retro shooter Kvark, a game using new-gen tools with an 80s aesthetic.

*SPRAWL*
Escape the walled city and take on the militarized government of the sprawl. Fueled by the blood of your enemies and a mysterious voice in your head, make your way to the spire to topple whatever lies within.

*The Aaru*
Inspired by Stargate and The Mummy, Senior Environment Concept Artist Volodymyr Donchenko has masterfully created an interactive concept art project in UE5 featuring an ancient Egyptian temple with several large areas.

*Virtual Pine Garden*
Our last spotlight of the week comes courtesy of 3D Artist Leo Torres with their photorealistic environment showcasing a quiet path through a pine forest. They created Virtual Pine Garden using a combination of Nanite, Lumen, Quixel assets and textures, and third-party assets.

[AAMIR]

One thing I'm happy about is that this channel finally hit 1 million subscribers
Congrats

[eddielonestar]

Exciting times ahead. Looking forward to working with Unreal Engine much more in the future. Well done Epic Games.

[volodymyrdon]

Big thanks!!! to Spotlight my project The Aaru in Community 🥰🥰🥰

[sorinswonderland]

I strongly believe that dreams almost made something revolutionary. If they ever partner with a lot of people for development. They could make game dev easy to do. I believe their formatting or UI was the main thing that held it back from being game changing in the industry. If they could streamline or simplify the Ui to be something similar to that of minecraft. I think it would explode. The simpler the creation process gets, the more likely other people are to get involved with it. Now im not saying make blocks only for materials, like minecraft, But it could start with that. Build the rough drafts out of blocks, then add angles, curves, and circles to refine it. Use real world materials and textures. Then more time could be put into optimization so any platform could run it. Make more game like when it comes to the actual process of game development. If unity, minecraft, and dreams made a baby. It would be the perfect storm for making the ultimate game dev tool in a real work flow scenario. Imagine UE5 or UE6 with minecraft blocks and building mechanics. Then you refine with brush tools and non square materials. Even children would be able to game dev, if you made the process simplistic enough.

[perfectionist]

I don't see leaves moving in that forest. Still good though