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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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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  Agreeded, yes using an open source application like Unity and others are great alternatives. You just ca... : Batmanshack
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    50% is still pretty good. if you disagree, you most likely don't know what you're talking about :) - no... : fw_rams
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      Unity is a one time fee of $1500 for Pro and $300 for the iphone deployment. Since you think 50% is st... : SkipperMcG
      
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      sorry if i was offensive and sounded like an idiot.. wasn't very polite of me.
      
      i work as a developer in a specific software market. Thing is, that you as developer normally have the tool and you need customers. So you turn to some marketing company (i call them marketing, could be just a company that has the right customers) that sells the tool for you.
      Normally you get there 30%-60% of the money. It is a similar case with apple, where they push your stuff in the appstore (even if they are terrible at marketing the tool in general, they at least provide the platform and the right target market).
      
      it's some kind of affiliate system they have there if you want to put it that way. 50% is hard, but they make it possible to sell your tool a million times.
      
      oh i'm not happy with 50% don't get me wrong :)
      
      Sep 14, 2010 1:21pm PDT
      
      sorry if i was offensive and sounded like an idiot.. wasn't very polite of me. i work as a developer i... : fw_rams
- Depending on when they take their cut, the developer could get 52.5%. : jake
- For a retail game as a developper you get far less than 50% of the final retail price. Also considering t : pillzer

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