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I really like the fact that the engine is free for many non-commercial purposes. I think the indie game scene in particular, which often releases their titles

I really like the fact that the engine is free for many non-commercial purposes. I think the indie game scene in particular, which often releases their titles for free, can benefit tremendously from having these tools available.

aw3c2 17y ago
That is new to me, where does it say that?
- eswat 17y ago
  All the info is on their Licensing page: http://udk.com/licensing.html http://udk.com/licensing.html As long as you're not using a UDK app to generate revenue, it's free. And don't worry about the bit saying "[you'll need to buy a commercial license to] distribute an application you've created using UDK", it was cleared up by Epic shortly after: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=21329409#itemanchor_21329409 http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=21329409#itemanchor_2132...
pxlpshr 17y ago
Yeah no kidding. I believe the UE3 engine costs somewhere around $350k to license. In the past, I don't think you could get non-commercial access to mess around with. That said, this is pretty huge for indie developers. I grew up playing UT99, UT2k*... UT3 was a tragedy on the PC but nevertheless, Unreal Tournament was the reason I got into my first startup. We licensed our tech to Quake Live but yeah... there's a reason we died, Oracle is too expensive for game developers given all the other costs associated to development.
- mindaugas 17y ago
  Why did you use Oracle in the first place?
  - pxlpshr 17y ago
    You're asking the wrong person. I was the creative/mkting director... but also, the startup began in 2005 and died in late 2007-ish. AFAIK, there were not very many scalable solutions for a gaming platform when we first started. But again, I'm not the right person to ask about this. :)
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