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Epic Games Grant Available for Unreal Engine Developers

A topic by Myleah created Mar 21, 2023 Views: 455 Replies: 12
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Hi all! My name is Myleah, and I'm the PR & Marketing Coordinator over at Code Coven! We've got an opportunity for developers to create a prototype with us, and get up to $10k in distributed funds for your team! You can learn more about it here: https://codecoven.co/code-coven-create-the-solstice-program-2023/ 

But here's the TLDR: Code Coven Create: The Solstice Program is an incubator style initiative which supports multiple small teams of developers as they create a prototype. Over the course of 12 weeks, teams will take their prototype from concept to completion. Code Coven staff will be offering scope advice and roadmap guidance at each milestone check-in. 

By the end of the programme, teams can look forward to publishing a small and polished prototype to use as a portfolio piece, to approach funding initiatives for future opportunities, or as the beginning of a longer development timeline.

If you want to know more please feel free to reply in this thread, or email me at myleah[at]codecoven.co! 

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Is it free? (And who'll own the rights?)

it's free yes! And you own the rights! Neither epic nor code coven will own rights to your prototype. It's for helping marginalized game dev to get their foot in the door!

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But it's only for high end Unreal Engine developers? Am I right? o(︶︿︶)o

No, it's for anyone - as long as they are working with a team who has experience working together: example: a team who has done a game jam together, a group of friends working on a game for fun in their free time, a few members in a student game dev club who have been wanting to get guidance on working on a game, etc. You'd have to have a basic grasp of how to work in a game engine, but it's not for "super ultra experienced" developers. We're not teaching the basics of Unreal (We have a different course for that!), but rather, guidance for prototype creation. This is to help people get into the industry.

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Oh, I see

too bad it's only for unreal, I'm making my game on my own engine

Keep an eye out for next time - we ran this with Unity last year and it was any engine!

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Me too (ಥ⁠_⁠ಥ)

Who falls under `marginalized`? Does it include dragon slimes?

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My game contains both dragons and slimes....

ahh but does it contain an actual drago slime, as pictured?

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No, but soon.. (as soon as I'm able to get a new PC, as my old one got stolen when I wasn't around.) ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ