Epic's free version of Unreal Engine 3, the Unreal Development Kit, can now happily make games for Apple's shiny aluminium boxes, as Mac support has been added with the September build. Get downloading that here at Shacknews.
This will also herald the arrival of native Mac support in the commercial version of Unreal Engine 3, which should greatly simplify the process of making Mac editions of games, and hopefully make them more common.
Crytek is planning a low-cost version of its Crysis 2-powering CryEngine, akin to Epic's Unreal Development Kit, company co-founder Avni Yerli has told Develop. While there are no concrete details for now, it's good to hear.
"We have a business model in mind for this--which I can't get into details of right now--but it will be extremely user-friendly," Yerli said. "The barriers for entry will be very low, and perhaps even for free. Of course this will be compared to UDK and Unity and so on, but we think this sort of competition is very good for the community." Read more »
The free version of the Unreal Engine 3 has been downloaded and installed by over 900,000 developers.
The free version of the Unreal Engine 3 has been downloaded and installed by over 900,000 developers.
The free version of the Unreal Engine 3 has been downloaded and installed by over 900,000 developers.
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