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Unreal Development Kit

By: Derek Yu

On: November 5th, 2009

Wow. Shit. Epic Games just launched Unreal Development Kit, putting their extremely expensive Unreal Engine 3 in the hands of the masses – the kit is free to download for non-commercial use! Otherwise, there are two licensing options available (coming soon):

1. If you use the kit internally at your own company, it costs $2,500 per developer seat per year.

2. If you sell a game or application made with the engine, the first $5,000 you make is royalty-free. After that, Epic Games gets 25%.

With Unity Indie going free last week and now this… dang, the level of tools available for independent developers just rose dramatically. Good times!