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Unreal Engine 4 officially launched today and you can begin developing using its full toolset for just $19 a month, Epic Games has made known.
“Epic’s goal is to put the engine within reach of everyone interested in building games and 3D content, from indies to large triple-A development teams, and Minecraft creators as well,” explained Epic Games co-founder Tim Sweeney. “For $19/month you can have access to everything, including the Unreal Editor in ready-to-run form, and the engine’s complete C++ source code hosted on GitHub for collaborative development.”
Sweeney adds: “This is the complete technology we at Epic use when building our own games, forged by years of experience shipping games like Gears of War for Xbox and Infinity Blade for iOS, and now reinvented for a new generation.
“Having the full C++ source provides the ultimate flexibility and puts developers in control of their schedules and destinies: Whatever you require to build and ship your game, you can find it in UE4, source it in the GitHub community, or build it yourself – and then share it with others.”
Anyone can ship a commercial product with UE4, says Sweeney. Developers will pay five per cent of gross revenue resulting from sales to users.
Epic also confirmed that custom terms can be negotiated, for example, reducing or eliminating the royalty in exchange for an upfront license fee.
“We find this future very exciting,” said Sweeney. “It’s no longer dominated by giant publishers and marketing campaigns, but by a simple and honest proposition: Gamers pay for great games, and anybody who can valuably contribute to building those games can succeed, from indie developers, to large triple-A teams, and to individual programmers and content creators, too.”
Epic has released a host of UE4 tutorials, which you can see below.
Source: unrealengine.com
