Orlando Game Devs Pitch Real Estate Industry on Innovative Tech

Published October 3, 2025

On September 25th, the Unreal Orlando Chapter hosted its first Pitch Night at the Orlando Regional Realtor Association (ORRA), showcasing how game developers and real estate professionals can collaborate to solve industry challenges using gaming technology.

The event followed May’s XR Game Jam, where more than 70 attendees including 40 developers, 25 real estate experts, and leaders in Orlando’s tech community gathered to rapid prototype real-world solutions with Unreal Engine and XR tools. Seven developer teams were formed at the jam, and five chose to continue refining their concepts for Pitch Night.

Before a panel of real estate experts that included Leo Loomie of Wolters Kluwer, Florida Realtors director Javin Lopez, agent and AI technology enthusiast Lyliam Chau, and agent Vanessa Loomie, the teams pitched how their solutions could transform real estate practices.

“The real estate industry is highly behind the times when it comes to technology,” Loomie told The Orlando Life. “To see people without real estate backgrounds create relevant tools in a short amount of time was impressive. You could see the realtors in the room nodding their heads, saying, ‘I need that.’”

Game Developers Step Into Real Estate

Two teams in particular highlighted the power of cross industry collaboration.

“This was our first time actually pitching one of our games,” Gynell “Journey” Journigan of City of Gamers told The Orlando Life. “It can be scary. You don’t know if anyone will take your idea. But to see our concept turn into something real, with artists and designers joining in, it showed us that Unreal can impact industries far beyond entertainment.”

Journigan and his team reimagined how aspiring agents could learn the ropes through gamified training. By integrating MLS systems and real-world requirements into a playable simulation, their prototype offered new agents a foundation in understanding inspections, listings, and compliance.

Tariq Elguindi, whose team, Lost JennyI, developed “Inspection Detection,” a game-inspired application that allows realtors and clients to virtually explore homes and uncover potential issues, said “Our demo used a real Orlando house. The agent we showed it to loved that people could still walk through the house in 3D even after it was sold. He immediately thought about future uses, from training to custom modeling.”

Kevin Manfredi, who came from a finance background and had never used Unreal Engine before, the experience was transformative. “It was exciting to see how transferable these skills are,” he told The Orlando Life. “You jump into the deep end, and suddenly you are solving problems for industries you never pictured before.”

Orlando as the “World of Tomorrow”

For industry leaders, the night was a glimpse of Orlando’s role in shaping the future.

“Orlando is the region in North America where the most gaming students come to learn,” Nicolae Sterescu, president of Hololight, told The Orlando Life. “These skills in Unity, Unreal, and 3D tools are incredibly valuable across aerospace, healthcare, real estate, and education. Events like this push students to think beyond games and see how their skills can transform industries.”

That vision echoes Orlando’s cultural legacy as a city built around experiences. Just as Walt Disney’s original EPCOT was conceived as a “world of tomorrow,” events like Unreal Orlando’s Pitch Night underscore how Central Florida continues to experiment, innovate, and create immersive futures.

“The future is now with the Unreal Orlando Chapter,” Lopez told The Orlando Life. “This is why Orlando is a leader not only in the state but in the country for technology.”