What. An. Upgrade.
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]ell, Minecraft got an upgrade. A limited demo for Minecraft running Unreal Engine 4 has been released and my goodness is it beautiful. Since it is a demo there is not much to do besides collect and build. There is no crafting or different environments in the demo so you cannot get the different resources that the full game offers. Take a look at some gameplay:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjCandEgtHo]
John Alcatraz, the creator, wrote in a post on the UE forums that:
While it’s looking similar to Minecraft, my intention was not to create a game similar to Minecraft, but just to see how easy it is to make a voxel based game with good performance using Blueprints only in Unreal Engine 4. The Minecraft look then later came when I searched for textures, and actually the whole internet is filled with public domain texture packs for Minecraft. So it was the best way for me to get textures for a voxel based project, since I am no artist. And let’s be honest, it does not look bad like this, having the graphical power of UE4 combined with the pixel look of textures which were intended to be used in Minecraft.
You can find a link in the video’s description to get the demo. I would definitely get the download, it is well worth the time. Hopefully we will we get a full Minecraft running Unreal Engine 4 soon.
