Unreal Engine 4 for everyone!

[pippyrox]

Today, Epic has opened up Unreal Engine 4 to the world! UE4 is now available for download in its entirety, including the full features, tools and the entire C++ source code for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android through a subscription plan. You can subscribe to UE4 for $19 per month, and ship games with UE4 commercially by paying 5% of gross revenue from product sales to users.

The engine includes lots of free content, including template games, sample games, content examples and more from the built-in Marketplace.

In UE4, all engine and game code are written in C++ using Microsoft Visual Studio (available free online) or Apple's Xcode. Designers can build code-free games using Blueprint visual scripting, but there's no UnrealScript, C# or JavaScript. GitHub is hosting the complete C++ source code for community-driven sharing and collaboration.

To get started, visit http://www.unrealengine.com.

NEW SUPPORT CHANNELS:

• We’ve launched all-new UE4 forums and community support channels. Since the new forums are a clean slate please create a new account right now to reserve your unique display name. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.

• Once you create an account, you can post on the new forums, AnswerHub and the wiki.

• You are invited to check out our new user FAQ, official documentation, video tutorials and everything else available today.

IF YOU’RE USING THE ORIGINAL UDK:

• You’re free to continue using UDK and releasing products as planned.

• You can continue using the UDK forums with your existing login.

• UE3 docs remain available on the archived Unreal Developer Network.

• If you’re early in development or starting a new project, we recommend moving to UE4.

Thanks for being part of the Unreal development community. We hope you’ll join us to experience a new generation together with Unreal Engine 4!

Sincerely,

Your friends at Epic

[BMAliens]

Oh my, now this is news!

[Badass_Cyborg]

SWEET JESUS!

[vblanco]

HOLY ****, i totally didnt expected that until something like 6 months minimum

[seenooh]

Wooooooooooooooooooot !!!! I wont sleep today

[cube2222]

HOLY ****. That's called an unexpected reaveling. THANK YOU EPIC!!!

[Racer1]

"When releasing a product using UE4, you're signing up to pay Epic 5% of gross product revenue from users, regardless of what company collects the revenue. That means: If your game makes $10 on the App Store, Apple may pay you $7, but you'd pay Epic $0.50 (5% of $10)."

Well, it should be 5% of $7! If I make only $7, why do I have to pay from $10 ?????

[ronnie42]

Good news: Finally get to see Unreal Engine 4
Bad news: 20 per month fee. So basically this has killed individual users that want to learn.
Can't help but think that this is NOT good news, it's a shame because was looking forward to trying UE4.

[vblanco]

Good news: Finally get to see Unreal Engine 4
Bad news: 20 per month fee. So basically this has killed individual users that want to learn.
Can't help but think that this is NOT good news, it's a shame because was looking forward to trying UE4.

20$ per month is DIRT CHEAP, come on, your internet access cost more

[Racer1]

What about this? Is this cheap also?

"When releasing a product using UE4, you're signing up to pay Epic 5% of gross product revenue from users, regardless of what company collects the revenue. That means: If your game makes $10 on the App Store, Apple may pay you $7, but you'd pay Epic $0.50 (5% of $10)."

We will have to pay for money that we don't earn.

[reropme]

Good news: Finally get to see Unreal Engine 4
Bad news: 20 per month fee. So basically this has killed individual users that want to learn.
Can't help but think that this is NOT good news, it's a shame because was looking forward to trying UE4.

These are exactly my first thoughts as well. I play around with UDK and its different Tools and I would love to do the same with UE4, but can't/won't afford 19$ (how much is that in Euros?) a month, when there are some month, when I have no time or energy to play around with it.

ciao
reropme

[kassane]

I thought I would release it for free!

[darthviper107]

What about this? Is this cheap also?

"When releasing a product using UE4, you're signing up to pay Epic 5% of gross product revenue from users, regardless of what company collects the revenue. That means: If your game makes $10 on the App Store, Apple may pay you $7, but you'd pay Epic $0.50 (5% of $10)."

We will have to pay for money that we don't earn.

Yeah, it is, UDK was 25%, this is 5%
You earn $10, you then pay Apple 30% and Epic 5%

[gastonb]

This is insanelly epic!

[Racer1]

If I pay Apple 30%, I only get 70% right? So, If I only have 70%, why should I pay from 100 % ????