We’ve just got word that Epic has teamed up with online college and game jam host Train2Game for the upcoming Make Something Unreal Live event which puts four startup studios against each other to create a game using the Unreal Engine. These sort of competitions seem to happen with reasonable regularity, but what makes this one more interesting to us than most is two things: First off, all of the games will be specifically developed for the iOS platform. Secondly, Epic has licensed the Fighting Fantasy IP.
Fighting Fantasy is a series of game books which are also available on the App Store. We’ve posted about these game books in the past, and they’re really clever works of interactive fiction that work great on iOS devices. We’ve been told that the games these studios will be working on are going to be 3D adaptations to these books, and need to stay faithful to the original IP, which sounds like an interesting challenge.
The four games will be revealed on April 10th, and while I can only speculate what the quality of each of the games will be, it’s really cool seeing Epic hosting these challenges with iOS specifically in mind.
