Core

 is a free-to-play online video game with an integrated game creation system, developed and published by Manticore Games. It was designed by Frederic Descamps and Jordan Maynard and it was made using Unreal Engine 4. It was released in open alpha on March 16, 2020, and it is currently available exclusively on the Epic Games store on April 15, 2021.

Game creation system
This game hosts user-generated games that are designed for an older teen and adult audience, although several official ones from the developer team themselves exist too, like Strike Team and PROP HUNT The ApoCoreLypse. Essentially, the game creation system is designed to simplify video game creation in order to allow more individuals to develop games in a more facilitated manner, as it sometimes claims itself to be the "YouTube" of game development. The game creation system is based on a similar concept as other gaming platforms for user-generated games such as Roblox.

This system allows for the development of up to 16-player multiplayer games and single-player games. However, it is impossible to import external game assets into this game creation system, but it is possible to modify and combine built-in game assets to suit the amateur developer's needs. The amateur developers can also code with the Lua programming language using an extensive built-in API. Games made in Core's game creation system cannot be exported externally and they are only available in Core itself.

History
On December 11, 2019, Core has initially entered a closed alpha phase, where all users were required to sign a non-disclosure agreement before being able to play the game. On March 16, 2020, Core has entered a public, open alpha phase. In September 2020, Core partnered with Dungeons & Dragons and created a competition wherein players competed to build the best Dungeons & Dragons-themed game. The winner was a game called "Forgotten Cisterns".

In December 2020, two games, "Mining Magnate" and "Roll 'Em", were the first games on this platform to hit 100,000 plays. On December 17, 2020, Core started the three-week "Holiday Jam" game jam, with the theme of "Winter Wonderland" and $20,000 in prizes.

On April 15, 2021, the game was launched exclusively to the Epic Games store.

Fundraising
In September 2019, Manticore Games announced that they had raised $30 million to fund this game through Series B funding.

In September 2020, it was announced that Manticore Games had raised a further $15 million, of which the largest contributor was the video game company Epic Games. The interest of Epic Games in funding Manticore was tied by Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat into a desire to create a "metaverse", wherein several different gaming platforms are interconnected.

In March 2021, Manticore Games announced that they had closed a $100 million Series C funding round and described Core as a "creator multiverse."

Minimum

 * CPU: Intel Core i5-7400 or AMD equivalent
 * RAM: 8 GB
 * OS: Windows 10 64-bit
 * VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or AMD equivalent
 * PIXEL SHADER: 5.1
 * VERTEX SHADER: 5.1
 * DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 4096 MB

Recommended

 * CPU: Intel Core i5-7400 or AMD equivalent
 * RAM: 16 GB
 * OS: Windows 10 64-bit
 * VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti or AMD equivalent
 * PIXEL SHADER: 5.1
 * VERTEX SHADER: 5.1
 * DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 6144 MB