Epic Releases $12M Worth of Paragon Content

Epic is making the best of the failure of

Paragon

by releasing a load of
content from the

soon-to-close

MOBA for free for Unreal Engine 4 developers.
And in
case you think it’s cheap to make a free-to-play game, they say the value of
these assets comes to around $12 million, and that there’s additional content on
the way worth millions more.

This page

leads to
where you can download what’s available so far.

This post

has

a trailer

showing
off the freebies and filling in more details, saying: “The assets, built at a
cost of over $12 million, include 20 AAA-quality characters, with their
respective skins, animations, VFX and dialogue, along with over 1,500
environment components from Paragon.” Here’s more:

For those interested
in importing Paragon characters into their projects, Epic recommends starting
with Shinbi, who comes with an animation Blueprint. This can be used as a
framework for animating the other characters in the Paragon packs. Epic is also
shipping a sample map that is handy for testing and can be used as a baseline
for creating more
customized environments.

Available Paragon assets include:

• Characters: 20 Paragon Hero characters will be initially
  available including all skins for distinct character variants. The release
  also includes base meshes, thousands of textures, VFX and animation cycles,
  and dialogue with hundreds of sound cues. The character Shinbi comes with an
  animation Blueprint which can be tailored to specific needs. Epic sends
  special thanks to OTOY and 3D Scan Store for granting permission to keep
  intact the high-quality character materials using their facial and body
  scanning technologies as part of this release.
• Environments: The Paragon release includes over 1,500 environment
  assets created for the Agora and Monolith maps, including a sample map for
  developers to use and customize as desired.
• More to Come: Epic will release millions of dollars worth of
  additional Paragon asset packs beyond the initial $12 million offering
  through spring and summer 2018.