1. The History of UnrealScript Paul Taylor 2009

2. ZZT Tim Sweeny started development on ZZT in 1990 and released in 1991 It was originally a text editor An ASCII based game –Came with a level editor!!! ZZT has been released to the world. (It’s now free) It is about 20,000 lines of Pascal And the source is lost!

3. http://www.textmodegames.com/download/zzt.html

4. Epic Mega Games 1 guy living at home with his parents! –The name was derived to match Apogee Note: Apogee became 3D Realms!

5. Unreal Development started in 1994 Inspired by the “little crappy editor with a very advanced game engine behind it” that Doom and Quake had. *Complexly separate programs Tim decided that content development was the core need. He decided that more effort should be spent on the editor and tools than the game itself.

6. The Editor-Centric approach The editor was integrated into the game engine, allowing for real-time display of everything. Looking back at ZZT Tim has noted that it just evolved and he never planned the outcome, as opposed to Unreal where ZZT was pretty much a road map to the development.

7. Less than 25 people (at most) worked on Unreal In 1997 the team moved into a building together to increase their productivity In 1998 the team moved from Canada down to Raleigh (North Carolina)

8. Crunch Time “We were betting everything on that(Unreal) -- including our credit card balances. Mark Rein got his American Express card taken away from funding Epic at that point. We bet everything on it, and it was a success. “ Another 6 months and Tim believes that Epic would have folded.

9. Currently... Epic have an 18+ team that work on the engine alone! 89% Male 11% Female 110+ Employees

10. SOME games on the Unreal 3 Engine Mirror's Edge, Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy, Huxley, BioShock, Mass Effect, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Tom Clancy's EndWar, Lost Odyssey, Turok, Unreal Tournament 3, Medal of Honor: Airborne, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, Army of Two, The Last Remnant, Gears of War and Gears of War 2.Mirror's EdgeRobert Ludlum's The Bourne ConspiracyHuxleyBioShockMass Effect Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: VegasTom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2Tom Clancy's EndWarLost OdysseyTurok Unreal Tournament 3Medal of Honor: AirborneBrothers in Arms: Hell's Highway Army of TwoThe Last RemnantGears of WarGears of War 2

11. The Future...? Crysis is the biggest competitor to Epic –High end PCs are 2% of the next-Gen market. –So Epic is not worried about Crysis But CryEngine 3 is cross-platform..... Engine Warz??

12. References http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/40 35/from_the_past_to_the_future_tim_.phphttp://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/40 35/from_the_past_to_the_future_tim_.php http://www.linkedin.com/companies/epic- gameshttp://www.linkedin.com/companies/epic- games http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Sweeney_ (game_developer)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Sweeney_ (game_developer)