The BRAWLยฒ Tournament Challenge has been announced!
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawlยฒ-tournament
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawlยฒ-tournament
Unreal Engine 3 now free!
polycounter lvl 20
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sweet.
I'm not sure if I understood the licensing terms correctly (not enough sleep I guess) but does it mean, if you create a commercial game using the UDK you do not have to pay anything until you earn more than $5000? Then you pay 25% of your income to Epic? If so, holy crap.
That's a really good deal for small independent companies. They get the access to one of the most popular and best documented engines and don't have to face any costs during the production.
While they would still have to give away a good share of their income to Epic and digital distribution companies such as Valve, for developers who are not able to fund the costs of the development it might be certainly a good deal.
There are of course alternatives, such as Unity engine - but unfortunately I am not aware of its full capabilities.
That's how I read it too, pretty awesome for indie projects.
It's also nice to see game engines such as Unreal being made readily available to other industries, it might eventually lead to a healthier job market for real time 3D artists and programmers.
Indeed, for indie projects it might work like a charm - no costs until you exceed the $5000 dollars mark = amazing.
I wonder how many of the UT3 mods being currently in development (Airborn, Warm Gun, etc.) will jump onto the ship.
Even if they are not going the make commercial games, they still can expand their user base as they won't have to require UT3 or GeoW to run the game.
An impressive move there Epic.
Does it mean we can expect more PC games now? It pretty much means indie devs can now make games without ANY up-front costs at all - as long as they use open source software to make the content.
EDIT: Let's find out, downloading now...
Just one way to find out,DL and try it.
And yes this is the uptodate totally awesome version with everything, I'm pretty sure they'll update this monthly just like the Dev builds.
From
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/DevelopmentKitBuildUpgradeNotes.html#October 2009
"Major changes to the engine since the release of Unreal Tournament 3"
global illumination for unearthly:)
If you wanna sell the game you make with it, you pay them 2500$per year, if your total revenue exceeds 5000$, they want 25% of what you're making.
edit - ah so it is free if you dont actually sell a game? but if you do its at least $2500?
If you are creating a game or commercial application using UDK for sale or distribution to an end-user or client, or if you are providing services in connection with a game or application, the per-seat option does not apply. Instead the license terms for this arrangement are $0 (zero) up-front, and a 0% royalty on you or your company's first $5,000 (US) in UDK related revenue, and a 25% royalty on UDK related revenue above $5,000 (US). UDK related revenue includes, but is not limited to, monies earned from: sales, services, training, advertisements, sponsorships, endorsements, memberships, subscription fees, rentals and pay-to-play.
They might have problems then, because I can only see them making more money out of this! I better contact them now and offer to store some of it
anyone up for making some games :P
Tried it 5 times, then for some reason it installed fine on the next go......odd. Finally installed though. Quite surprised they've done this and released it in this way tbh.
Can't wait to see folk showing off their scenes.
I got UT3 - Downloaded patches and also changed the unreal ed a little bit (noticed because of splash screen or loading screen - whatever it is) almost a month ago.
My mate is saying I have 2.5 and this new UDK is the free version of 3.... which one do I have? I mean....idk, really confused.
Also, is this just the same? I mean... Is the unreal editor 3 completley different from this UDK?