If you do 3D games especially for PC Unreal Engine 4 just does not have competition. If you do mobile games – you can definitely try Unity. The tools are awesome, there’s no denying that, but what I like most about Unreal Engine is that the developers add new features lighting fast. Check out what features were added to Unity during the last year and compare it to UE4 and you’ll see that Epic updates it’s engine much more frequently.

The reason behind this I believe is that Epic is making new games themselves and they know about the problems that developers have. Unity doesn’t make any games. Epic designs tools that really help to make better games. It’s all tested and optimized for game devs.

Visual Style

Storm United

Storm United was heavily inspired by Halo. We’re going for bright colors, using more cartoonish style. I believe that this whole trend for more cartoonish games started a long time ago with the success of World of Warcraft.

Before that we were more used to more realistic game look. World of Warcraft had that amazing success and I think a lot of people actually started to think that this cartoony look is really interesting.

This kind of style is much better for the developers. It’s easier to design, it uses less GPU power and it’s much more flexible.

Tools

Apart from Unreal Engine 4, we’re using pretty standard stuff. We have some artists who do 3d meshes with Maya and some with 3DS Max. It works very well for us since we know how to mix these two kinds of content in one game. We just keep these products in different universes. For example we do buildings with 3DS Max and weapons with Maya. it works great for us.

Storm United

Storm United Server Screen

It’s a tough decision to pick up the market for your game. We’ve got a lot of different offers and we’re not sure exactly how we can work. I can assure you that we’re going to continue to work with Steam.

We’re also going to do cooperation with local companies for special markets like China, Indonesia, Japan, Russia. We haven’t signer anything yet.

Storm United Character Screen

The game should launch in about 5-6 month as an open beta. Right now we have everything ready for the gameplay but there’s still some polishing required. We need to adjust the player co-operation systems, set up the shop and add clan management systems. We actually aim to become an esport centric game.

We’re selling different stuff that does not influence the gameplay. There’s no pay-to-win. Since we’re going to work with esports this is definitely something we’re not going to mess with. I think we’re doing something similar to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, selling skins and image stuff. We’re also going to sell access to tournaments.

You can get your Early Access version of Storm United on Steam now.