Epic Games is Launching a Separate Indie Section in its Dev Forum
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Epic Games continues to position itself as a partner for smaller developers. The Unreal Engine provider has now set up a dedicated section in the official forum: Epic for Indies.
The company had already launched the Epic Developer Community in 2022 to create a place where developers can meet, exchange ideas and learn from each other. At the beginning of the year, further improvements were implemented, including to navigation and performance. Now, the next step is to be taken, as Epic Games itself says in a blog post. In the so-called 'Epic for Indies' section, the community is also being expanded to include an area specifically for smaller teams. These often face different challenges than the dev teams of large studios.
What is interesting about the Epic for Indie section is that it is located in the Epic Developer Forum and not in the Unreal Developer Forum. Accordingly, the community is also explicitly open to indie teams that do not use the Unreal Engine. Or rather, not yet. Because, of course, Epic also wants to attract future customers with this offer.
In fact, Epic Games is making some efforts to get smaller teams excited about its technology. For example, the Unreal Engine is free for Indies until their game makes $1 million in revenue. In addition, Epic Games organises meetups, has special offers in its marketplace and has been investing in smaller teams and projects for years through the Epic MegaGrants. According to the company, over 2,100 grants have already been approved. The Epic Games MegaGrant programme has a budget of over 100 million US dollars. It is a further development of the Unreal Dev programme, which started in 2015 with 5 million US dollars budget. Developers can receive a grant of between 5,000 and 500,000 US dollars through Epic MegaGrant.
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