Buzz Tour brings Unreal Masters to cities around the USA and Canada!

**Mark Rein** · 08-29-2003, 02:32 PM

Epic and NVIDIA are teaming up with iGames for a 12-city tour to promote the $1,000,000 NVIDIA Make Something Unreal Contest. This tour, known as the "Buzz Tour," includes discussions and hands-on demonstrations of Epic's Unreal Technology-the technology used to create the Unreal Tournament mods that could lead participants to win big money! Participants will also get to play Unreal Tournament 2003 in a LAN party, check out Unreal Tournament 2004, and chow down on the food that spans the four main food groups, pizza… all for FREE. The discussions, lead by www.3dbuzz.com's creator Jason Busby, will feature topics such as using the Unreal Engine, creating terrain in the game, and designing levels. This tour is a great crash course for anyone interested in learning about game creation. Check out the tour dates, locations, and discussion topics per date on the iGames web site at the following URL: http://www.igames.org/unreal_buzz.asp

If you want to brush up on your Unreal content creation skills be sure to visit http://www.masteringunreal.com which contains over 150 hours of FREE downloadable Video Training Modules from the fine folks at 3DBuzz.com

BTW, the Buzz Tour is brought to you by NVIDIA and Alias.

**legacy-191** · 08-29-2003, 02:39 PM

damn shame i live in Europe ! Sounds really great, you guys are going to great lengths to promote this contest :up: For such a little company you do great things imo.

**KriLL3.8™** · 08-29-2003, 02:39 PM

Awsome initative!

To bad i'm on the dark side o' the planet :sour:

(Europe)

Would love to go hope someone will take footage =D

**legacy-dethmanrulz** · 08-29-2003, 02:44 PM

nuts... only one city in Canada.... and it's not Toronto or Ottawa...

**legacy-SealClubber** · 08-29-2003, 04:25 PM

Miami!?

Tampa is in central florida! Host the event there!

**Kr4zed** · 08-29-2003, 04:35 PM

Buzz Tour brings Unreal Masters to cities around the USA and Canada!

And what about the cities around the Czech Republic ?

Alright, alright, I haven't said a word...

P.S.: Mark, will there be an updated version of Maya PLE bundled with UT2004 ? Now that we have version 5 out, it would be nice if we were able to create meshes for UT2003/4 in it...

(or maybe just an updated UED plugin for it)

**legacy-STANGFRIIK** · 08-29-2003, 04:38 PM

Originally posted by SealClubber
Miami!?

Tampa is in central florida! Host the even there!

Yea. I'd actually think about going if it was in Tampa. Miami is just too far

**legacy-Mort_Q** · 08-29-2003, 04:56 PM

Originally posted by dethmanrulz
nuts... only one city in Canada.... and it's not Toronto or Ottawa...

Toronto ? You do realize that no-one outside of Ontario considers Toronto a Canadian city, don't you !?

Monday, September 8 - time TBD
Head2Head Games
246 Dundas St.
London, Ontario N6A 1H3 Canada
Tel: 519-434-5591

Anyway, London is a little far away for me...

**legacy-fsstrike1** · 08-29-2003, 05:07 PM

Why not toronto :'(

**legacy-zenmaster86** · 08-29-2003, 06:24 PM

Uummmmmmmm, Y isn't their a time set in NC for a demo....thing?..aU....Epic you are baced in Religih..correct? Sorry if i miss spelled

Dose that mean I can drive to Epic and get some crash cources

**legacy-Sidekicker** · 08-29-2003, 08:45 PM

Europe plz :sour: :sour: :sour: :sour:

**legacy-Arclite** · 08-29-2003, 08:53 PM

Originally posted by Sidekicker
Europe plz :sour: :sour: :sour: :sour:

I heard you guys already got to play the game. That's something no one in Canada has experienced yet.

**Mark Rein** · 08-29-2003, 09:00 PM

Originally posted by 191
damn shame i live in Europe ! Sounds really great, you guys are going to great lengths to promote this contest :up: For such a little company you do great things imo.

It would be great to have a European tour but the problem is that sending them to Europe is (a) very expensive and (b) they've already been away from their families quite a bit lately.

**Mark Rein** · 08-29-2003, 09:02 PM

Originally posted by dethmanrulz
nuts... only one city in Canada.... and it's not Toronto or Ottawa...

I understand. I'm from Toronto myself but we had a limited number of slots. London is only 2-3 hours from Toronto by car or bus and we're hoping that some of the Digital Extremes guys can come out to this one as well.

**Mark Rein** · 08-29-2003, 09:09 PM

Originally posted by zenmaster86
Uummmmmmmm, Y isn't their a time set in NC for a demo....thing?..aU....Epic you are baced in Religih..correct? Sorry if i miss spelled Dose that mean I can drive to Epic and get some crash cources

We are hoping to do something in Raleigh, probably in early November. It will be a bigger event geared toward experienced mod makers. We're still working out the exact details.

**legacy-TyeFang** · 08-29-2003, 09:15 PM

w00t!

I've been playing around a lot with matinee...did some cool matrix-like 360 shots....where the gamespeed stops and the camera does a 360 pan around the fight scene.

Works best when triggered by the shock combo

...looks cool.

- Tye

**legacy-Diego1203** · 08-30-2003, 01:33 AM

Is this just going to be lectures or is it a hands on kind of thing where we all sit at pc's and follow along with the instructor? How long will it last? Are all of the topics that are listed on igames going to be covered in every event? How many people will be acomidated? I'm thinking of driving several hours to the one in Denver and it would suck to get turned away when I get there.

**legacy-Sett** · 08-30-2003, 10:59 AM

Who will be giving these talks? I ask because I have very technical questions. Will they be able to answer them?

I went to Fragaloploza in Toronto last year And the DE level designers were there giving a demo. Later they took questions. But even they were stumped by some of the questions asked.

And thank you for going the extra mile.:up:

**legacy-MikeSobe** · 08-30-2003, 11:51 AM

come to happenin Cleveland Ohio.....

oh well too bad

**legacy-dethmanrulz** · 08-30-2003, 12:50 PM

Originally posted by Mark Rein
I understand. I'm from Toronto myself but we had a limited number of slots. London is only 2-3 hours from Toronto by car or bus and we're hoping that some of the Digital Extremes guys can come out to this one as well.

cool, I didn't know you from around here!

**legacy-sneaky_usb** · 08-30-2003, 02:28 PM

NO CHICAGO?!?!

Yer gonna go from Canada to Texas without a stop in Chicago??:weird:
What's the deal, Mark?
I know you can't have them stop EVERYWHERE.. but c'mon.. CHICAGO!!

-=sneak

**legacy-MikeSobe** · 08-30-2003, 03:01 PM

Originally posted by sneaky_usb
NO CHICAGO?!?!

Yer gonna go from Canada to Texas without a stop in Chicago??:weird:
What's the deal, Mark?
I know you can't have them stop EVERYWHERE.. but c'mon.. CHICAGO!!

-=sneak

Ya I am kinda surprised no CHICAGO also.

**legacy-sneaky_usb** · 08-30-2003, 05:40 PM

It's crazy I tell ya!
They're stopping in Marietta, Ga.. but not CHICAGO??
A Chicago stop would draw gamers from 4 states.
What are you guys.. goofy??
Think of all the free press you'd get on national affiliates for stopping traffic on Michigan Ave or LSD!

C'mon, Mark - take care of us!

-=sneak

**legacy-bigcoops** · 08-31-2003, 04:39 PM

wow people, epic provides a free service to us and all you do is complain?

...although it would be nice if they had an event in Orlando or Tampa rather than Miami

**KriLL3.8™** · 08-31-2003, 04:49 PM

Originally posted by bigcoops
wow people, epic provides a free service to us and all you do is complain?

...although it would be nice if they had an event in Orlando or Tampa rather than Miami

lol...

**legacy-anarkist** · 08-31-2003, 05:08 PM

I dont mean to sound rude but when will the results be announced of the first round? We are nearly at the second round

**legacy-dinwitty** · 08-31-2003, 09:09 PM

yup, surprised no chicago

**legacy-Tropic** · 08-31-2003, 10:32 PM

no Maryland? Not anything even close.

**legacy--Loric-** · 09-01-2003, 01:50 PM

Originally posted by Krille
Awsome initative! To bad i'm on the dark side o' the planet :sour:

(Europe)

They just don't give a damn about us.

I won't buy the "it's too expensive to organise something there" excuse, because I guess there already are people with enough knowledge in Europe who would be able to make the presentation.

With 3 or 4 dates, you would have covered the whole western Europe easily.
Berlin, London, Paris, Madrid... for instance

Anyone slightly interested in the Unreal Engine shouldn't pass the opportunity to attend such an exceptional event. So with a little publicity for the tour in game magazines, you would ensure full attendance to these events.

**legacy-ThorsHammer2** · 09-01-2003, 02:06 PM

IS there an official website giving updated information on how the contest is going, and letting us know the winners.
One of the big reason im still interested in uT2003 is the mods but there are so many all over the place, but no one place to get info on all or the best. I ust dont want to miss out on any good ones.

**legacy-BroMacK** · 09-01-2003, 05:00 PM

AWESOME! I am down the street (literally) from the one in Marietta, GA! I will be there!

~MacK

**legacy-SealClubber** · 09-01-2003, 05:54 PM

alright, heres what we have on our "to do list" :haha: ...

- Make a stop in Chicago (its where I was born, there needs to be a stop here!!!)

- Move the show from Miami to Tampa ( I live in Tampa, more people in florida will be able to attend if its in Tampa :up: )

- add 3 more Canadian cities that have a big UT comunnity

- Have a seperate European tour!

Thats all for now

**legacy-\/ÖÏ\/ÖÐ** · 09-02-2003, 02:16 AM

?

No North Bay ?

legacy-Baller · 09-02-2003, 04:13 AM

Wow, no Chicago...

That's like, the heart of the midwest.

**legacy-BroMacK** · 09-02-2003, 08:13 AM

Will there be any Epic reps there in the Marietta, GA one?

**legacy-Swiper_the_Fox** · 09-02-2003, 03:29 PM

London Ontario... w00t!!

**legacy-Railgunner** · 09-02-2003, 10:23 PM

Do I have to bring my own computer for the lan party?

is there an age requirement? im 14 and I wanna goto the new york visit!!!

**Ultron** · 09-03-2003, 06:49 AM

Dr. Doom and I will be at the Houston tour on Sept 15 if everything goes according to plan. We're pretty excited about it!

**UnrealGrrl** · 09-03-2003, 10:08 AM

anyone going to the NY stop? i might actually not be workin...

**Mark Rein** · 09-03-2003, 10:17 AM

Originally posted by Diego1203
Is this just going to be lectures or is it a hands on kind of thing where we all sit at pc's and follow along with the instructor? How long will it last? Are all of the topics that are listed on igames going to be covered in every event? How many people will be acomidated? I'm thinking of driving several hours to the one in Denver and it would suck to get turned away when I get there.

This is pretty informal. Jason & Logan will setup on a PC and show off some topics that people want to learn about. They'll adapt to the audience who shows up. I suggest you get there a little early if you can. I spoke with Jason late last night and he sounded pretty excited about how the first one went. I'll get some more info from him later today.

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