Unreal Engine 3 for everyone & for free!

w0mbat · 11-05-2009, 08:37 AM

Epic Games just announced UDK, a free for all (non commercial) software, including the full UE3 development kit

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What is it?
UDK is Unreal Engine 3 – the complete professional development framework. All the tools you need to create great games, advanced visualizations and detailed 3D simulations. The best tools in the industry are in your hands.

Who's it for?
Anyone. Everyone. You. Unreal Engine 3 has been used by game developers, researchers, television studios, machinima directors, artists and students. If you have an idea that needs to be brought to life in a game engine, UDK is for you.

Why UDK?
Only UDK has the power, flexibility and track record of Unreal Engine 3. These tools have been proven with countless releases and dozens of awards. There is no better way to make awesome games than with UE3.

http://www.udk.com/

Thats just... EPIC! Everyone can download the whole kit for free and u only have to pay if u start to make more than $5000 with it!

IronWarrior · 11-05-2009, 08:46 AM

Pretty awesome.

I guess we will start seeing new games or mods for UT3 being made with their own UT3 engine now.

zalbard · 11-05-2009, 08:49 AM

Great, just great!

I think UE3 is great personally.
We should really see a ton of fun free games soon. There were a ton of decent UT2004 based ones.

Piotrsama · 11-05-2009, 09:05 AM

WTG Epic!

This will give small developers the chance to do great stuff.
It might even help to reactivate the PC market.

Sam_oslo · 11-05-2009, 09:15 AM

This kit got a good deal of goodies on advanced visualizations and detailed 3D simulations, right?

I was looking for something like this to use as machinima to make short-films. This looks promising, downloading.

Sadasius · 11-05-2009, 09:17 AM

Would love to play around with this even though I have absolutely no clue how to use it.

Perhaps make a water cooled system simulator or something in which you can shoot the damn thing if you don't like the design.

xoqolatl · 11-05-2009, 09:20 AM

Awesome. A lot of indie developers will pick this up, especially seeing how Unreal Engine knowledge seems pretty much standard for anyone in the gaming industry.

This the way to make money on game engines. What Crytek does is not.

SamHughe · 11-05-2009, 10:10 AM

I wish somebody re-code Morrowind in UT3 engine.

Diverge · 11-05-2009, 11:05 AM

So you can use to to play around with any UT3 engine based game? Like Mortal Online?

Maybe I can extract a map of the world with it

Pontos · 11-05-2009, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by xoqolatl

Awesome. A lot of indie developers will pick this up, especially seeing how Unreal Engine knowledge seems pretty much standard for anyone in the gaming industry.

This the way to make money on game engines. What Crytek does is not.

Indie developers who expect to sell their games will have to pay royalties, right?

As long as it's not $700k as the normal license price for the engine...

Sh1tyMcGee · 11-05-2009, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Piotrsama

WTG Epic!

This will give small developers the chance to do great stuff.
It might even help to reactivate the PC market.

Did the PC Market ever DeActivate?

DragoonXX · 11-05-2009, 12:23 PM

thats one thing epic has always been pretty good for...if I remember right, for UT 2k4 the GOTYE came with some of the winners of the Make something unreal contest

Sam_oslo · 11-05-2009, 12:44 PM

Got installed it, and it works. So far so good. I need to find some good video on how to use this tingy.

Frank M · 11-05-2009, 01:05 PM

Nice move.
Hopefully it will be a useful tool for some small indie game developers with
original ideas.

Unoid · 11-05-2009, 01:20 PM

I would love to see someone make a FPS of warhammer 40k.

Not that cheap console crap that relic is making for Q1 2010.

Farinorco · 11-05-2009, 01:35 PM

Interested until I saw the licensing terms. Free up to 5000$ earnings, and then a royalty of a 25% of the total income. So if you actually achieve to make some money with it, it's going to take 25% of it away...

I think I will stick to Ogre + Bullet + OpenAL + ... it's good, and it's cheaper (free).

spicypixel · 11-05-2009, 01:46 PM

Arguably 25% is acceptable, I know it will be for me, knowing I'll be using the middleware and tools provided with the backing of the tutorials and community.

Farinorco · 11-05-2009, 01:50 PM

Mmmmmh, and what about the long, long list of third party dependencies it has? Does this fee cover all of them? Because there are several that are not exactly free...

Zigosity · 11-05-2009, 02:17 PM

You'd have to make 2.8mil on a game for it to exceed the normal licensing cost of the UT3 engine :P.

Easybeat · 11-05-2009, 02:46 PM

And here is the reason for upgrading to 8Gb RAM.

I love messing on with mod tools, dev kits etc so I am downloading it as I type.

Bodkin · 11-05-2009, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Sadasius

Would love to play around with this even though I have absolutely no clue how to use it.

Perhaps make a water cooled system simulator or something in which you can shoot the damn thing if you don't like the design.

That be asome, I would pay loads for a 3d watercooling sim. DLC could be new parts :P

Cybercat · 11-05-2009, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Sh1tyMcGee

Did the PC Market ever DeActivate?

In the US, just about.

Herbal · 11-06-2009, 02:01 AM

Wasn't the UDK given away 'free' in the Special Edition of UT3 (where they launched a competition to use it and win a licencse)?

Is there anything different here or just the incentive for people to try and make some money off it and if successfull Epic rake in a good bit of money?

IronWarrior · 11-06-2009, 03:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Unoid

I would love to see someone make a FPS of warhammer 40k.

Not that cheap console crap that relic is making for Q1 2010.

Yeah, I would love a proper 40K FPS, the last official one was Firewarrior...

But there is this: http://www.moddb.com/mods/ut40k-the-chosen

saaya · 11-06-2009, 04:09 AM

sweet! if only ut3 would support antialiasing and dx11 :/