Today Chandler and I went to Epic Games. Our day started with a tour of the building and we got to learn about the story behind Epic Games. It’s really interesting! It all started with a text-based adventure game, and they have the map for that game framed on a wall in the building. After that, they published the first real game to make Epic Games known: Unreal. Unreal was a shooter game set on an alien planet and it had groundbreaking use of color with 16-bit graphics instead of previous games only using 256 colors on the screen at a single time. Then, there was the first Unreal Tournament, a fast paced shooter game that is our host, Steve Polge’s favorite game he’s worked on. We actually got to playtest the newest Unreal Tournament in pre-alpha development, because playtesting is critical to the final product in game design. It was so much fun and I’m so grateful for this epic opportunity. 
Playtesting Room