iPhone Support Coming to Unreal Development Kit, 'Epic Citadel' Hits 1 Million Downloads

by Alice O'Connor, Sep 14, 2010 7:47am PDT

Related Topics – ipad, iphone, Epic Games, Unreal Engine, UDK

Developers and tech fans thrilled by Epic's free iPhone tech demo 'Epic Citadel' will be delighted to hear that support for developing on Apple's pocket telephone and its ilk is coming "soon" to the free version of Unreal Engine 3.

Developers using the free Unreal Development Kit "will soon be able to use the power of Unreal Engine 3 to create apps for iOS devices," Epic explained. The dev also revealed that Epic Citadel--available free on iTunes--has hit one million downloads.

Epic's iPhone tech demo 'Epic Citadel.'

As well as developers allowing to freely create and release non-profit games built upon the engine behind such games as Batman: Arkham Asylum and Gears of War 3, the UDK offers a decent path into commercial development. UDK commercial licenses begin at the trifling figure of $99, followed by a 25% royalty on all revenue over $5,000.

"We'll have more on UDK support for iOS devices coming soon," Epic promises. For now, you can acclimatise to the UDK by nabbing the August beta from FileShack.

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This demo struggles a little bit on the Touch 4. I can't imagine them turning this into a game with items to collect and people walking around. That would just be too much for any of the iDevices to handle. This seems to me like it was just one of those tech demos that used every ounce of resources in order to drive excitement for Apple devices, kind of like what Nvidia or ATI does with their resource-intensive demos that highlight just pixel shaders or soft shadows -- creating a living, breathing world with that same hardware will be impossible, or at least require a heck of a lot of compromises in graphical fidelity.

Sep 14, 2010 9:07am PDT

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This demo struggles a little bit on the Touch 4. I can't imagine them turning this into a game with item... : Jobos
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  You know, on second thought, I think this ^^ is kind of obvious to most people. I didn't want to diminis... : Jobos
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    I'd like to point out that this was ported to the iphone in only 2 weeks(maybe 3 can't remember). With m... : JodoMcFatty
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      I thought he said his ran on the gen 1 iphone? And regretted it because so few people have the gen 1 iph... : Lucy Labia
      
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      HE says here he runs the demo on an iphone 4 to turn up a few things for the big screen presentation at q... : Lucy Labia
      
      I have a 2g : doomed

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Their licensing scheme is just pure genius. It's basically a 100% free tool for all of your development time, you only pay a totally symbolic sum (99$) when you actually publish the finished game..
Obviously after that you pay 25% of royalty which is pretty huge; and in the long run you loose a lot here; but it's still an impossible to refuse offer for any new indie team or wanabee individual with little or no funding.
That will enable so many people to create and publish their own stuff...

Sep 14, 2010 8:17am PDT

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  25% is huge when indies are looking to get the most from every sale.. add to that the cost of actually de... : Tchest
  - IMHO Rage's engine for iPhone looked a lot better, it's a shame they're probably not licensing it out tho... : SabinRaijin
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  To bad you are pretty much stuck with notepad for coding unless you pay a massive premium for NFringe and... : lcizzle
  - Are you talking about UnrealScript? Isn't there an IDE in the UDK for that? Or is there no other alternat... : pillzer

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25% to Epic, 30% to Apple. So you basically get 50% of the money people pay.

Pretty sure Unity is still a better deal for the developer, plus it plays in the browser.

Sep 14, 2010 9:19am PDT

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25% to Epic, 30% to Apple. So you basically get 50% of the money people pay. Pretty sure Unity is stil... : SkipperMcG
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I`m eagerly awaiting a demo of the ID tech 5 engine on Iphone, carmacks demo on quakecon was equally impressive :)

Sep 14, 2010 8:09am PDT

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Assuming you can basically create iOS games on your PC with the UDK, no mac required, is big news. This is very exciting to hear. My creative veins are throbbing with excitement.

Sep 14, 2010 7:50am PDT

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Probably better to use something that works on older gen iphones for now and possibly android or an easier android port. But for one or two years in the future, this is interesting.

Sep 14, 2010 8:40am PDT

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  This is using the OpenGL ES 2.0 version, ES 1.1(used for making games 2G, 3G compatible) isn't able to ... : JodoMcFatty
  - Of course you can't do this on the older phones. Thats why I said "use something that works on older gen... : Lucy Labia

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This demo looks so sweet, I'd love to see a PC version.. :(

Sep 14, 2010 8:28am PDT

This demo looks so sweet, I'd love to see a PC version.. :( : pillzer

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Damn u epic and your awesomeness! I was really blown away by the demo I saw on the IPad, just thinking of all the creative opportunities this just opens for developers. Seems also the Iphone is the top spot for games bought for portable devices. This is getting interesting.... Keep going Epic you guys are doing good...

Sep 14, 2010 8:16am PDT

Damn u epic and your awesomeness! I was really blown away by the demo I saw on the IPad, just thinking o... : Batmanshack

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I bet this is one of the reasons Apple backed off on the third party restrictions. I saw a non-official demo of this last fall and was wondering how it was going to work when they said no third party tools, especially with Uscript.

Sep 14, 2010 8:00am PDT

I bet this is one of the reasons Apple backed off on the third party restrictions. I saw a non-official d... : Fred Garvin

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