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Joe Foley

This Unreal Engine 5 game turns the grace of ballet into brutal action

Tsarevna ballet video game.

Sorry Timothee Chalamet, but it seems ballet is still relevant, even in the very modern creative field of video game design. An indie developer is using Unreal Engine 5 to design a video game with a combat system based on traditional dance moves.

To make the dark hack-and-slash Tsarevna: Age of Tales, the team brought in a real-world ballet dancer and used motion capture to take her movements into Epic's game engine.

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