The “2022 Unreal Engine 5 Taiwan Game Creative Design Contest” co-hosted by Unreal Engine developer Epic Games and WINKING has attracted as many as 50 teams since July last year. The award ceremony was held today (24th) to announce the list of winners. The first prize went to Chaoyang University of Science and Technology’s student work “Ai-Boy” (Ai-Boy), taking away a prize of 200,000 yuan.
After one year, more than 150 people and as many as 50 teams signed up for this year’s UE5 creative design competition. The types of works include VR, animation and video games, and even i-Ride applications.
Mr. Zhan Chenghan, CEO of Winking Technology
This year’s gold award work “Sick Girlfriend Simulator” was produced by a student Wang from Chaoyang University of Science and Technology. The role-playing game uses a first-person perspective, using ChatGPT and 3D modeling to construct a scene of character dialogue and interaction. The player plays the role of a boyfriend who is under house arrest. He needs to talk and interact with his girlfriend to try to escape the house.
The silver-winning work “Illusia” was also developed by the student team of Chaoyang University of Science and Technology. It is an action-adventure game with a cyberpunk background. The plot describes that the fictional Punk City government will extract the spiritual power of the people and turn it into weapons.
The Bronze Prize work “The Story of Yaqiya” was developed by a two-person team from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. The title of the game was inspired by the characteristics of Taiwan’s night markets. It allows players to freely explore a charming street and solve puzzles, so as to obtain new props and abilities to advance the story.
At the same time, in this competition, due to the excellent production quality of many animation short films, the official awarded three additional special awards after careful evaluation, respectively won by the work “IRIS” of Evergreen University, the work “I’m not you” of Shijian University, and the work “Pink and Ocean” of University of Science and Technology of China.
The prize money for the special award is 80,000 yuan, which encourages the three groups of students to put their heart into animation creation. The following is the complete list of winners of the 2022 Unreal Engine 5 Taiwan Game Creative Design Competition:
Gold Award: “Sick Girlfriend Simulator” Chaoyang University of Science and Technology
Silver Award: “Illusia” Chaoyang University of Science and Technology
Bronze Award: “The Story of Yaqiya” National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Excellent work: “Alone Time”, National Taiwan University of Arts
Excellent work: “The Star of Extinction” Huwei University of Science and Technology
Excellent work: “Chimera” Shude University of Technology
Excellent work: “Lantern Man” Longhua University of Science and Technology
Best Work: “Ocean Conqueror” National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Special Award: “IRIS” Chang Jung University
Special Award: “I’m not you” Practice University
Special Award: “Pink and Ocean” University of Science and Technology of China
Since the launch of the first “2016-2017 UNREAL ENGINE 4 Taiwan Creative Design Competition”, Epic Games has maintained close cooperation with Taiwanese developer Winking Technology over the years. This year’s UE5 Creative Design Competition is also co-organized by the Taiwan Game Industry Promotion Association and guided by the Digital Industry Agency of the Ministry of Digital Development.
The award-winning works were also invited by the co-organizer Taiwan Game Industry Promotion Association, and will be exhibited at the 2023 Comics Expo from July 27th to 31st. Players who are interested in participating in the exhibition can see these works at the expo.
