Unreal Development Kit free for non commercial projects.

Mel · Post by **Mel** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:25 am

http://udk.com/

Seems that the UE folks join to the fashion of leaving a "free for non commercial projects" version of their unreal engine 3.

I don't know to which point does the engine leave functionality to "play" with it, but i think these are pretty interesting news

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 5:40 am

Yes this is old news. Too bad I haven't the time to play around with it, looks interesting.

Insomniacp · Post by **Insomniacp** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 5:49 pm

I thought of using it but with any plans on selling a game it is extremely not worth even playing around

. The license to sell a commercial game is ridiculously expensive. think it was $7500 USD...

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:03 pm

I'm pretty sure now they just want a 25% cut for anything that makes over 5000 USD.

Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 5:13 am

BlindSide wrote:I'm pretty sure now they just want a 25% cut for anything that makes over 5000 USD.

You are correct.

And Mel, it's nothing new, you can "play" with everything that fully licensed developers do, except the source code. Really the only new thing Epic Games has done is dropped the $40-$60 fee you had to pay before to buy UT3/GoW1. And since Gears of War 2 was never released on PC, this new UDK is actually the updated version with Lightmass and the flocking AI, etc.