Make Something Unreal final round of winners

[Zacker]

Winners of the final round of Epic's Make Something Unreal contest have just been announced:

http://www.makesomethingunreal.com/final_winners.aspx

I would like to point your attention the education catagory, where the IT University of Copenhagen won a 1st place

[Warby]

fantastic ! congratulations to your students !

[-HP-]

Fuck yeah, awesome mods!

[Sentura]

i saw this first on facebook!

[Minos]

Awesome stuff yeah.Congrats to the winners, this is truly an epic effort

I dislike how everything looks so noisy and have odd color combinations all around though. Stuff like that makes some of the entries look very 2006'ish. Don't mean to offend anyone here but I can barely make out what's happening in this screenshot:

This picture....

...could look a lot better if it wasnt for the excessive blurriness and lack of contrast (stronger light spots I mean). They should have used HP's/buddy's SFAM entry as reference for good lighting:

Another prime example of this is Mass Effect 2. I love the art assets but the post-effect filters and odd red'ish lighting make the game look VERY bad in some places.

[-HP-]

So, what did the winners got exactly? Apart from the spotlight...

I couldn't agree more Minos, that's why I love Mirror's edge art direction so much! Clean and beautiful. Most of the games are grundgy and noisy, that's a fact.

Maybe It's a lame excuse, but It's just that It's hard to make clean environments look believable. Noisy textures will make the overall look of the scene look busy, which can fool the players eyes for detail, same goes for screen filters! I hate overused DoF, bloom (HDR), AO, and shit like that, It's nice that it's there but don't make the game / scene about it to the point where you can't make up what the hell you're looking at, not even shapes let alone textures.

UE3 doesnt help at that either, with it's over the top screen filters that people just use erroneously, starting with UT3 itself, an authentic visual noise clusterfuck fest.

[Sentura]

ut3 has always bothered me with its blur. i remember seeing it alot even in the standard game...

[sarge mat]

":2i6lpopq]So, what did the winners got exactly? Apart from the spotlight...

cash i think. "The Ball" guys got $40,000 I think.

[Daze]

The grand prize winners in the Best Game Mod category can be viewed at www.makesomethingunreal.com and are recognized as follows:

First Place: The Haunted by Michael Hegemann and The Haunted Team

Prize: $50,000 + commercial license for Unreal Engine 3

http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions...e-haunted.aspx

Second Place: The Ball by Toltec Studios

Prize: $40,000

http://www.fileplanet.com/193016/190...he-Ball:-Cahua

Third Place: Angels Fall First: Planetstorm by the AFF: Planetstorm team

Prize: $30,000

http://www.fileplanet.com/193254/190...t:-Planetstorm

Fourth Place: Prometheus by Rachel Cordone and The Prometheus team

Prize: $20,000

http://www.fileplanet.com/200335/200...metheus-Client

Fifth Place: Hazard: The Journey of Life by Alexander Bruce

Prize: $10,000

http://www.fileplanet.com/204630/200...ourney-Of-Life

The grand prize winners in the Educational category are recognized as follows:

First Place: IT University of Copenhagen

(Steam Racers, The Witching Hour, Cubes of Serenity, Chalupa, Takeshi’s Gladiators)

Prize: $10,000

Second Place: Art Institute of California, L.A.

(UT2D Killing Time, vCTF-Boilerplate Team Art Mod, Millagun UT2D, Deadman's Tales)

Prize: $5,000

Third Place: Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia

(Hazard: The Journey of Life, Steel Halo)

Prize: $5,000

Fourth Place: Högskolan i Skövde, Sweden

(Sanctum)

Prize: $5,000