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Epic Games, the developers of Unreal Engine, are coming to Nigeria to support the growing game development industry. The two-day wokshop holding in Unilag, Lagos will cover beginner and expert hacks with the Unreal Engine. There will also be a special class on cross-platform conversion of projects for those who are interested in porting Unity Engine projects to the Unreal Engine.
There will also be talks on opportunities for developers and animators on grants for development by Epic Games. The workshop will be taken by Andreas Suika, a Technical Evangelist with Epic Games from Cologne, Germany.
Andreas Suika started his career more than 19 years ago at Blue Byte and worked there in different positions. As Tester, Data Wizard and Level Designer he had the chance to work on products like Battle Isle and Settlers 4. Settlers 5 and Settlers 6 he attended as Lead Game Designer. As Creative Director he worked on ANNO for Wii and DS. Besides the larger projects he had the chance to spend time in research, development methods and smaller games like ANNO for the iPhone. He co-founded the mobile games publisher Flaregames in the role of the Creative Director. In 2013 Andreas begun to freelance as a Consultant, Game- and Level Designer and Creative Director.
In 2014 he founded Daedalic Studio West GmbH with Dirk Steenpaß where they developed the space exploration game THE LONG JOURNEY HOME. He worked as a Scout at Daedalic Entertainment. In 2018 he managed the Indie Arena Booth at gamescom and MAG. Andreas’ games have won awards including the Red Dot Design Award, the TOMMI and several German Game Developer Awards.
Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software development company based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991.
Attendance to the workshop is free but participants are required to register at www.naijagameevo.com under events.
Date: 5-6 December 2019 at the university of Lagos. Please Call 08022660015 for more info or check the website.
