UDK Royalty Threshold Raised to US$50,000

[Crusha K. Rool]

The license is per-company or developer and covers all games made. It's all under a single license and cumulative.

Ok, so ye overruled me there.


But what would be in the following case:

Say I buy a license to release a small game completely on my own and I hit the $50k threshold.
Later I start working on royalty base for another team who bought a license themselves. Would that effect me and my license in any way? After all it's earnings from the use of the UDK, but their project and license might not have hit the $50k yet while my did already, so would I have to give Epic their 25% share of what this studio pays me individually?

[Omar007]

From what I got, what you earn under your licence is what you have to pay to Epic.
Anything earned through another licence is for the owner of that licence to manage. Anything you get from them is yours.

[c9rmt]

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[MarkG85]

That's awesomesauce

[NightVenom]

I have Question will Epic promo the game for if you send it in or is all up the development company to do that ...?

[NightVenom]

I have question will epic promo the game for you or does the development company for the have to do that ...?

[Mougli]

They might mention on their website it if it's good, but that's it. You have to do the bulk of the marketing work yourself.

[eandlau]

Hi Mark and thank you for your kind post.
I would like to ask one or two other questions.

Scenario is I created an imaginary world and already have a website up for it where I exhibit works like comic books, films and short stories set in this world and they are all digital downloads via Google Wallet and coming off my own FTP server.
I currently have a 2D map of the world one can look at on the site.
I would like to use UDK to publish an interactive FREE walk through in this world so that visitors can get a really good feel for the place.

I would like to know the following:
1. If this walk through is free / free downloadable .exe file but the products on the site are not free and meant to make money, would I still need to pay Epic anything from the sales of these other products?
2. Will Epic have the right to use any concepts / artwork / etc. or any parts of, what I have on this site for advertising purposes or share any of it with other parties involved? (What Google does when you set up a free website with them).

Thank you!

[AlasdairH06]

Quick question when it says you sell you're game for $4.99 is that a fixed price ? Like if I make a full blown game I'm assuming that I can sell it for more then 5 bucks right?


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[Aldaron07]

Quick question when it says you sell you're game for $4.99 is that a fixed price ? Like if I make a full blown game I'm assuming that I can sell it for more then 5 bucks right?

The $4.99 is an example. The price of your game is whatever you want it to be.

[trless]

stupid question:
how does Epic know how much money I make with my game?

[madaboutagmes]

stupid question:
how does Epic know how much money I make with my game?

They could ask for your accounts. Your game will be distributed by a publisher or steam for example and they could always check with them. And dont forget it includes crowd funding etc.

[S3V3N]

When you receive the license Epic supplies an Excel sheet which you are supposed to update and send to them quarterly.

I have yet to send a report, however for this (the first) quarter we didn't do anything but pre-planning, so I don't know what is expected there. I could just type "0"s everywere.

I wish Epic would split the threshold into "mobile" and "PC" developments. For example 50k is a lot of money for most mobile developers to make, but not much at all for a bigger team. The big team needs to reinvest a lot of the money, so 50k is not a very high threshold. 80 or 100k would be more appropriate for teams that release games that go on Greenlight, etc.

[tippy1000]

Although I am not an Indie developer, nor am I skilled at anything, I do love playing with UDK. I cannot tell you how much it thrills me that you have done this for the Indie teams. It solidifies my belief that Epic is truly a gaming company for the gamers. Unlike Frostbite, you took a chance to give developers a chance to use your engine, and develop games. Cry-engine is also a wonderful development tool. I love you both. Even though Cry-engine is WYSIWYG, it is still more difficult to navigate compared to the Unreal Engine. My only complaint is that there is no updated documentation when there are updates. Great job Epic!