Epic Games gives out $75,000 in developer grants

A developer known for impressive gaming technology is helping development teams that are doing cool things with and for its engine.

Develop Epic Games has given out $75,000 in total to five teams as part of its Unreal Dev Grants program, which it created to reward innovative projects built for and with its Unreal Engine 4 development tool.

“Simply put, we succeed when you succeed,” Epic notes on the Unreal Dev Grants website. “Unreal Dev Grants can give you the boost you need to take your project beyond working prototype. Epic wants to help you focus more on creation and worry less about keeping the lights on.”

The recipients, consisting of game and plugin makers, include:

• Daedilic Entertainment, which is developing The Long Journey Home, a space exploration role-playing game.
• Right Nice Games, which is developing Skylar & Plux: Adventure on Clover Island, a 3D action platformer.
• Nako Sung for the Unreal.js Plugin, which brings “V8-powered JavaScript into UE4.”
• Proletariat for Unreal.hx Plugin, “a free plugin for UE4 that enables developers to write code in Haxe, a high-level, type-safe language.”
• Neoglyphic Entertainment for NeoFur Plugin, which helps UE4 developer create fur and other fuzzy textures.