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Unreal Dev Kit available for free

Epic Games has announced the launch of the Unreal Development Kit (UDK), a free edition of Unreal Engine 3 that provides community access to the award-winning toolset.

The software release is available to anyone interested in using 3D game engine technology, including game developers, students, hobbyists, researchers, creators of 3D visualizations and simulations, and digital filmmakers.

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edgeofblade - 56 days 16 hours ago

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Damn... the licensing agreement is pretty awesome if you want to release a game. No fees up to the first $5,000 in revenue.

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Budg3tG4m3r - 56 days 15 hours ago

2 - Not a bad deal

Unreal engine is getting older now and devs with bigger budgets are moving on to other engines or Epics new engine. This gives a chance for people to make somthing with little or no money and if it's good they can get it released. Mod makers, dreamers, noobs, or artist can use this.

They can't do anything mind blowing like Uncharted 2, Killzone 2, Gears, Forza 3, MW2, Alan Wake or Splinter Cell but they can make what they dream. I like this idea it opens the community and gives people a chance to try. If you know 3 or 4 people willing to put some extra time in for a couple years you can make a game.

It probably wont be a $60 or $70 mega blockbuster but a $20 or $30 budget title with good gameplay can sell. I myself would by a game with great gameplay, art direction and story over graphics anyday.

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sikbeta - 56 days 10 hours ago

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This is awesome, I'm a Dev wanabe XD

Everyone knows about some linux support or I'm tøø high? XP

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STONEY4 - 56 days 5 hours ago

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@Budg3tG4m3r

You do realize this is for PC only?

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Alcon Caper - 56 days 15 hours ago

3 - I read a list of engines based on their popularity not a while back...

Unreal is already the number one used engine and now it's free. I'm an advocate for a competitive marketplace, so this actually might be bad for competing engines. It might not affect Unreal NOW, but with similar tools in subsequent versions of the engine, its popularity will definitely result in an increase of use in the future.

Kind of a jerk move, in my opinion... why not give other engines a fighting chance...

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likedamaster - 56 days 15 hours ago

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"Kind of a jerk move, in my opinion... why not give other engines a fighting chance..."

Or kind of a genius move. Indie developers can't just come up with money out of a hat. This is going in the right direction. The most popular engine in the industry now free. How can that not spell win for everyone involved?

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Alcon Caper - 56 days 14 hours ago

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I'm glad for the indie devs, but I think their reasoning behind making it free is to increase the popularity of the next unreal engine, of which they'll already be familiar with.

Indie devs are the devs of the future and if all they know is the Unreal Engine, how can we expect other engines to compete?

Not to mention the fact that the Unreal Engine was arguably overused this generation. Aren't we furthering that by making it free?

How bout make the Crysis engine free, instead...

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Budg3tG4m3r - 56 days 14 hours ago

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So you basicly want Epic to stop what their doing for the next 5 years, what they been doing for 15yrs to give other engines a chance. Thats like asking MS to stop making Windows so MAC and Linux can catch up. This isn't a hippie commune, this is a business and you want them to stop making smart business moves so other not so smart businesses can get a clue. I'm all for everyone being able to play at the game table, but you just can't be some new guy off the street who sits down at the champs table and expect equal play time.

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Double Toasted - 56 days 13 hours ago

3.4 - You're looking at this all wrong...

when you should look at an engine like this as paint or crayons. Everybody, that wants to, can be exposed to it, but not everyone is going to make the same painting or draw the same picture.

And you mention Crysis engine should've been made free. Uh, hello, not the same company. But as I'm typing this, I really have to wonder, who in their right mind would argue with a free engine let alone arguably the best engine out there. Not even the Embryo engine is free...

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Alcon Caper - 56 days 11 hours ago

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@ Double Toasted - You make a good point. It's just a medium for creating and the result could vary from dev to dev.

I know it's a great business move by Epic. And of course I know Crysis is owned by another company.

I'm just thinking that from moves like this, sprouts monopolies, which can be abusive to the competitive market. If something like this did happen, eventually, I assume it would have to be regulated in order for other companies to have some kind of foothold on this growing industry.

But, yes, we all know it's good for everyone else...

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Alcon Caper - 56 days 15 hours ago

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sheesh, the recommended system requirements include 8 GB of system RAM.

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sukru - 56 days 14 hours ago

4.1 - 8GB is no big deal

That's supposed to be for developer workstations. Haven't you ever watched any developer interview videos? They all tend to have very large screens with very powerful systems.

You do not want to develop games on a machine that will be barely enough to run the resulting software. You'd probably want 4x extra power for debugging, and testing.

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Alcon Caper - 56 days 12 hours ago

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I haven't seen and dev machines. I'm sure they're up to par. But it puts a damper on normal joes who just want to download it and see what it's all about...

haha, I guess I'm the only one...

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HDgamer - 56 days 12 hours ago

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I need to upgrade my ram to that. I only got 3GB DDR2

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Alcon Caper - 56 days 11 hours ago

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That's what I, and what most people have... so i dunno... $200 for an 8GB RAM upgrade and a $300 for a NVIDIA 8000 series video card...

I guess that's about right... it'd be neat if i knew how to develop lol

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Pandamobile - 56 days 9 hours ago

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$300 for an 8xxx series card? What? You can get a brand new 5850 for $300...

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STONEY4 - 56 days 5 hours ago

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Grr Panda, I was about to say that and I scrolled down only to see I've been beaten to it.

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ShiNe-Box- - 56 days 15 hours ago

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I think I just threw up in my mouth.

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Jamescagney - 56 days 11 hours ago

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You shouldn't have looked in the mirror.

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gololo - 56 days 11 hours ago

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well...the thing is that the free version doesnt support dev for the 360 as right now :(

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MetalGearRising - 56 days 16 hours ago

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So can i make a game with this Unreal Dev Kit or do i need to know anything else about computers because i do know how to go on the internet.

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tdrules - 56 days 16 hours ago

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i find it hard to believe you could fight yourself out of a paper bag, let alone code physics, character models and dynamic lighting.
go back to flaming games, youre pretty good at that

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edgeofblade - 56 days 16 hours ago

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It's much more complicated than LBP, if that helps. This is a pretty serious engine. This isn't for the amateur.

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MichaelJackson - 56 days 15 hours ago

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LOL, I wouldn't bother if I was you, have you had any proper computer training at a design school or even made a basic character model with polygons? It takes years of training.... you are better of being a bot. What are you 12?

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Elven6 - 56 days 12 hours ago

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Why are you guys being so negative? If he wants to get into game development then let them, they released these tools so people like him (gamers) can explore game development and hopefully encourage them to pursue a career in it.

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MetalGearRising - 56 days 15 hours ago

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Well I've downloaded it so fingers crossed it's gonna be easy and not hard to make a masterpiece.

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XsteveJ - 56 days 14 hours ago

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Hmm...sarcasm anyone?

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