{"id":121964,"date":"2020-12-11T19:27:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T19:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamefromscratch.com\/?p=24217"},"modified":"2020-12-11T19:27:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T19:27:51","slug":"unrealclr-awarded-a-epic-megagrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/11\/unrealclr-awarded-a-epic-megagrant\/","title":{"rendered":"UnrealCLR Awarded A Epic MegaGrant"},"content":{"rendered":"

The open source UnrealCLR project was just awarded an Epic MegaGrant. The Epic MegaGrant<\/a> program was first announced back at GDC 2019 and consists of a $100M fund for supporting game and media development. Previous recipients have included Blender<\/a>, Godot<\/a>, RayLib<\/a>, Laighter<\/a>, ArmorPaint<\/a>, Krita <\/a>and more.<\/p>\n

The UnrealCLR project (we previously covered including a small getting started tutorial<\/a>) brings CLR or Common Language Runtime support to Unreal Engine. In a nutshell this enables C# and F# developers to develop in those languages in Unreal and even gives debugging and blueprint integration support. Even better it is implemented as a plugin so you do not have to build UE4 from source code. In their own words, UnrealCLR is described as:<\/p>\n

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UnrealCLR is a plugin which natively integrates .NET host into the Unreal Engine with the Common Language Runtime for direct execution of managed code to build a game\/application logic using the full power of C# 9.0, F# 5.0, and .NET facilities with engine API. The project is aimed at stability, performance, and maintainability.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Details of the MegaGrant were announced on Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Congratulations to the UnrealCLR team! UnrealCLR is an open source project that is available here on GitHub<\/a> under the LGPL license. You can learn more about UnrealCLR and the Epic MegaGrant program in the video <\/a>below. If you want to get started with UnrealCLR we recommend you start here<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n

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