Epic releases free Unreal 3 Development Kit

oudeis on 5/11/2009 at 16:54

Apparently you don't have to pay anything unless whatever you create with it makes money. The downside of this is that now all of us wanna-be genius game-developers have officially run out of excuses for not creating the next big thing. :(

Here's the (http://kotaku.com/5397808/epic-sets-the-unreal-engine-free) story, here's the (http://www.udk.com/) download.

edit- (http://www.udk.com/launch.html) official announcement.

Ulukai on 5/11/2009 at 17:06

Pretty damn awesome.

gunsmoke on 5/11/2009 at 17:33

:eek: I am shocked. This is huge. GG Epic!

Renzatic on 5/11/2009 at 17:51

I'm gonna make a game called Stick Fight involving 3 stick figures fighting on a white background. The blood that will come out of the stick figures when punched will be rendered with millions of polygons for realistic lifelike Blüd Phizx™.

This will be so awesome. :o

Here. (http://users.chartertn.net/greymatt/blud.jpg) I made a preview

Experience the futr of blud.

Sulphur on 5/11/2009 at 18:28

You can count me in on some o' that action, bud. If there's one thing I can do, it's stick figures. The possibilities are endless. Hell... we could even do themes.

I've already got a Gingerbread Handsnork Man figure and two stick-Chakat moms raring to go.

Renzatic on 5/11/2009 at 19:14

Themes? I'm already one step ahead of you there...

Inline Image:

http://users.chartertn.net/greymatt/stickman.jpg

Granted, this is just a prerender using high poly sources, but the final product should look fairly similar.

Also I think we should charge money for the hats.

Eshaktaar on 5/11/2009 at 19:24

NEXT GEN BUCKET GET!

Inline Image:

http://hulub.ch/temp/ngbg.jpg

june gloom on 5/11/2009 at 19:57

Well this is a refreshing change from their usual habit of charging an arm and a leg for the license then giving shoddy support in an effort to sabotage the competition.

Ostriig on 5/11/2009 at 20:03

Ooh, looks like Epic might land right back on my Christmas list.

Judith on 5/11/2009 at 21:18

This is truly Epic :) It has all the new tools like content browser and physx tools, it loads faster than UT3 editor and it has some of its assets. I can finally retire from making T3Fms and move on to making my first absolutely superb game that will take 10 years to make and will never come out. I'm so happy :)