This Unreal Engine 5 Superman flight demo blew up on Twitter, and now its creator wants to make it an actual game

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Unreal Engine 5 left early access this week(opens in new tab), and while I was struggling to make an island with a cinderblock on it (the next Dear Esther?), game developer Volod (opens in new tab)was putting together something much more obviously fun—a little superhero experiment that was so well received, they now want to make it into an actual game.

Volod and I clearly both enjoyed using the free camera to fly over the city from the console-only Matrix Awakens tech demo, which Epic made available as a sample project for UE5's release. Volod, however, actually knows what they're doing—they're a technical artist at Amber Studio(opens in new tab), a contract game development agency headquartered in Romania—and so they were able to build a custom city layout, drop in a humanoid character model from another sample project, and make it fly like Superman. (Or, I suppose, like Neo at the end of The Matrix.)

«The UE5 CitySample told me that it wants to turn into a Superman game when it grows up,» Volod wrote on Twitter(opens in new tab) with a clip of their flying demo.

The tweet has been shared over 3,500 times since Wednesday, and today Volod announced(opens in new tab) that they want to turn the idea into «an actual game»—just without any copyright-infringing references to Superman, of course.

Volod also tweeted a new flying clip which I'd describe as more Iron Man-like than Superman-like, although it includes some telekinetic car tossing, and I'm pretty sure that's not in Stark's repertoire in any timeline I'm aware of. Looks fun.

Update: We will be attempting to turn this tech demo into an actual game (no association with the Superman I.P). If you are an experienced concept artist, musician, 3D character, or UE4