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Keyser Soze

Posted: Nov 5 2009, 03:28 PM

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Yeah, pretty much, Unreal just released their UDK (Unreal Engine 3 Development Kit) for free. There are a couple limits on that though, as follows

QUOTE (The Independent Gaming Source)

Wow. ****. Epic Games just launched Unreal Development Kit, putting their extremely expensive Unreal Engine 3 in the hands of the masses – the kit is free to download for non-commercial use! Otherwise, there are two licensing options available (coming soon):

1. If you use the kit internally at your own company, it costs $2,500 per developer seat per year.

2. If you sell a game or application made with the engine, the first $5,000 you make is royalty-free. After that, Epic Games gets 25%.

With Unity Indie going free last week and now this… dang, the level of tools available for independent developers just rose dramatically. Good times!

So basically not only did one of the biggest names in game development just release their cutting edge engine to the masses, you can make damn commercial games with it and make 5000$ royalty free (and after that it's only 25% royalties anyways)

I'm blown away by all of these high profile Development Kits going free in such a short amount of time. Also makes me wonder if we're going to be looking at a new business model where companies give their engines to EVERYONE for free, which causes more high quality games to be made, which, in turn, makes them more royalty money as there isn't that initial thousand or so dollar bridge to get over to get into game development.

So anyways, here's the link on Unreal's site.
http://www.udk.com/index.html

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QUOTE (Raie @ Sep 18 2009, 08:55 PM)

Keyser you're the best person ever.

Sploder	Posted: Nov 5 2009, 03:39 PM
Standard Member Group: Members Posts: 781 Member No.: 2317 Joined: 12-July 06 Status: (0d)	... I can't find any words to express my current mental condition regarding this news... ... in a good way...

Elyk	Posted: Nov 5 2009, 03:44 PM
Standard Member Group: Members Posts: 6604 Member No.: 3808 Joined: 22-May 07 Status: (0d)	this is great --------------------

Zenor	Posted: Nov 5 2009, 03:52 PM
member title Group: Members Posts: 483 Member No.: 3614 Joined: 14-April 07 Status: (0d)	I definitely didn't see that coming, as I thought Unity going free was already a huge thing. But unreal, as expensive as it was? That's incredible. --------------------

BurninLeo	Posted: Nov 5 2009, 04:27 PM
Member's Standard Group: Members Posts: 1617 Member No.: 2273 Joined: 3-July 06 Status: (0d)	Damn, my Christmas is already done then

El Huesudo II	Posted: Nov 5 2009, 04:53 PM
Back to my roots~ Group: Members Posts: 436 Member No.: 3708 Joined: 30-April 07 Status: (0d)	DOWNLOADAN! Even if I'm not into game creation yet --------------------

rtsmarty	Posted: Nov 5 2009, 05:58 PM
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Mecha the Slag

Posted: Nov 5 2009, 06:24 PM

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already downloaded it long time ago and looking into it. I like to explore other game engines and their structure, interface and design for inspiration.

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bambam95	Posted: Nov 5 2009, 08:12 PM
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LuigiFan	Posted: Nov 5 2009, 08:18 PM
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VinnyVideo	Posted: Nov 6 2009, 08:09 AM
I prefer right cornerback Group: Admins Posts: 154 Member No.: 5803 Joined: 27-October 08 Status: (0d)	I definitely hope that more of this kind of thing happens in the next few years. -------------------- Course clear! You got a card.

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