Developer Epic Games has released a free, Unreal 3-powered development kit that will allow students, schools, researchers or fledgling game developers the ability to experiment with 3D game technology.
The Unreal Development Kit (UDK) can be downloading at the UDK website. The UDK is free for noncommercial or educational use, and a variety of licensing options are available—including a revenue sharing model—for anyone creating commercial content. This specific development kit is for the PC platform only, though Epic is considering console support in the future as well.
Epic notes that over 100 campuses already make use of Unreal Technology as part of their curriculum, including University of Pennsylvania, North Carolina State University, The Art Institute system of schools, Drexel University, Westwood College, DeVry University and Atlantic College.
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Epic Releases Free Unreal Development Kit
November 6, 2009
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DorthLous: Actually, nop, I did miss the emoticon for some reason (getting used to pics?) and I didn't know you changed it since (since I posted previous to my shout and it was still there.) Anyhow, thanks for taking it out!05/23/2012 - 6:01pm
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james_fudge: Well we were just testing it. but it is still on the submission to fight $pam.05/23/2012 - 5:48pm
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E. Zachary Knight: James, No I don't have it. I was just wondering who does and why. More curiosity than anything.05/23/2012 - 5:38pm
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james_fudge: Did you not see the emoticon and did you not see that it has already been changed back?05/23/2012 - 5:10pm
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james_fudge: LOL05/23/2012 - 5:07pm
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DorthLous: Why? Not shocked that people are barking to an additional hoop to jump through when posting from their already logged in account or just mentionning this to try to paint me as one always complaining?05/23/2012 - 4:45pm
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james_fudge: big shock there ;)05/23/2012 - 4:30pm
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DorthLous: I'll add my voice to those wanting it gone :S I'm already logged in, I don't need a captch'a. That's for those registering.05/23/2012 - 3:54pm
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james_fudge: Et tu EZK?!?05/23/2012 - 3:51pm
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Craig R.: I'm a One Man Quorum! And it's working for me now, thanks. :)05/23/2012 - 3:48pm
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E. Zachary Knight: How do we determine who get's the game/captcha thingy? Is there a certain posting threshhold users have to meet before it is turned off?05/23/2012 - 2:25pm
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james_fudge: Give it a chance, we're still adjusting it ;)05/23/2012 - 11:20am
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james_fudge: One does not a Quorum make Craig.05/23/2012 - 11:16am
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Craig R.: If I complete the stupid game, and it just deletes my comment, what's the point?05/23/2012 - 11:15am
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Andrew Eisen: beemoh - Yeah, Miyamoto was awarded the Spanish prize for Communication and Humanities.05/23/2012 - 10:36am
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Comments
Re: Epic Releases Free Unreal Development Kit
I'm a CS senior and this is the first time I heard that my university uses UE3
Re: Epic Releases Free Unreal Development Kit
I just with Epic would quit wasting time with UT and give Jill of the Jungle and Jazz Jackrabbit a reboot.
Re: Epic Releases Free Unreal Development Kit
I downloaded this ... tried to make a tree
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I think I suck at this ahem
Re: Epic Releases Free Unreal Development Kit
What's the difference between this kit and the one that is offered on the Unreal Tournament 3 CD?
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Re: Epic Releases Free Unreal Development Kit
This kit allows you to create stand alone games while the one that came with UT3 requires a copy of UT3 in order to load and play.
E. Zachary Knight
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E. Zachary Knight
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Re: Epic Releases Free Unreal Development Kit
Thank you very much for your reply! I'll be downloading that now. I have Crysis games as well, so I'll find the kit for that as well.
Going to download this now. Even though I may not play around with it it's always great to have and take the opportunity to take advantage of this.
Thanks again for your reply!
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Re: Epic Releases Free Unreal Development Kit
If anyone is interested, Unity also has a free version. This use to be the $200 Indie version and they just dropped the price to $0. Unity, while not as powerful as UDK, it does come with Windows, Mac and Browser support.
http://unity3d.com/
E. Zachary Knight
Oklahoma City Chapter of the ECA
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Re: Epic Releases Free Unreal Development Kit
Nice.
Hopefully it comes with a tutorial project like Red Edit and some other stuff like it does.
Re: Epic Releases Free Unreal Development Kit
Is 25% royalty normal?
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Re: Epic Releases Free Unreal Development Kit
25% iis more than normal. You have no idea how much work it is to build a game engine nightwng. We're lucky they're allowing something more than modding now.
Re: Epic Releases Free Unreal Development Kit
If you are a game platform. Nintendo has a revenue share of 35/65 Nin/dev for Wiiware games.
But since this is merely a game engine, I think 25% is a little excessive.
E. Zachary Knight
Oklahoma City Chapter of the ECA
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Re: Epic Releases Free Unreal Development Kit
Well UT3 was so fudgeing handicaped they had to do something....
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