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Winners of Train2Game and Epic Game Jam Selected

By Keith Schleicher

Posted on November 15, 2011

The Unreal Engine has been known as the engine for some terrific looking games, including Epic Games’ Gears of War series. Not long ago Epic Games hosted the Train2Game and Epic Game Jam to not only create games using the Unreal Engine 3, but they created games for the iOS. Today the winners have been announced.

Top honors of the Train2Game and Epic Game Jam went to The A-Team, who created a side-scrolling action game set in a 17^th century provincial town. Second place went to Nova Eye, who impressed judges with their tongue-in-cheek attack on Santa’s workshop aimed to stunt the flood of holiday decorations thereby increasing fireworks sales. Second runner-up Team Gandalf developed a first-person puzzle game in which the ghost of Guy Fawkes haunts the player.

Not bad for only 48-hours. Take a look at the full Press Release for more details, and look at the bottom for some pictures of the games created and the competing teams.

Keith Schleicher

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While not working as a Database Administrator, Keith Schleicher has been associated with Gaming Trend since 2003. While his love of video games started with the Telestar Alpha (a pong console with four different games), he trule started playing video games when he received the ill-fated TI-99/4A. While the Speech Synthesizer seemed to be the height of gaming, eventually a 286 AT computer running at 8/12 Hz and a CGA monitor would be his outlet for a while. Eventually he’d graduate to 386, 486, Pentium, and Athlon systems, building some of those systems while doing some hardware reviews and attending Comdex. With the release of the Dreamcast that started his conversion to the console world. Since then he has acquired an NES, SNES, PS2, PS3, PSP, GBA-SP, DS, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One S, Gamecube, Wii, Switch, and Oculus Quest 2. While not playing video games he enjoys bowling, reading, playing board games, listening to music, and watching movies and TV. He originally hails from Wisconsin but is now living in Michigan with his wife and sons.