{"id":93140,"date":"2019-05-07T23:50:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T23:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamefromscratch.com\/post.aspx?id=ea411d21-9b0d-4c8d-aca3-e1ea93d63ddd"},"modified":"2019-05-07T23:50:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T23:50:39","slug":"unreal-engine-academy-preview-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/07\/unreal-engine-academy-preview-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Unreal Engine Academy Preview Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games have just launched a preview of their upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/preview-academy.unrealengine.com\">Unreal Engine Academy<\/a>.&nbsp; This is a one stop location for Unreal Engine courses in video format which is completely free, although it requires you to log in with your Epic credentials.&nbsp; The Unreal Academy will track your current progress through a course and even has motivational achievements that can be attained.&nbsp; Currently the pickings are fairly slim, with 3 official courses and just over a dozen other courses available.&nbsp; The new portal will most likely replace the existing <a href=\"https:\/\/academy.unrealengine.com\">Unreal Academy<\/a>, with much of the content being shared.<\/p>\n<p>This move comes in response to a similar portal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qipYRdaNWZY\">launched by Unity<\/a> just last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.unity.com\/\">Unity Learn<\/a>.&nbsp; It offers very similar content, although Unity Learn also offers some text based tutorials in addition to video.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless to which game engine you use, never has it been easier to get access to excellent courses to get you up and running.&nbsp; Check out the new Unreal Engine Academy in action in the video below.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lz1bPPTa-f4&#038;w=853&#038;h=480]<\/p>\n<p class=\"under\"> <span class=\"categories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/category\/GameDev-News.aspx\">GameDev News<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/?tag=\/Unreal\" rel=\"tag\">Unreal<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games have just launched a preview of their upcoming Unreal Engine Academy.&nbsp; This is a one stop location for Unreal Engine courses in video format which is completely free, although it requires you to log in with your Epic credentials.&nbsp; The Unreal Academy will track your current progress through a course and even has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-93140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-development","tag-gamedev-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}