Over 100 academic campuses currently use Unreal Technology as part of teaching game development-related courses, and colleges with plans to incorporate UDK into their curricula include the University of Pennsylvania, North Carolina State University, The Art Institute system of schools, Drexel University, Westwood College, DeVry University and Atlantic College, with many others to be announced.
There is no charge for noncommercial or educational use of UDK. Furthermore, Epic Games will release ongoing, upgraded builds of UDK for free. Unreal Engine 3 is a constantly evolving game engine, and UDK contains all the most recently added features and technological enhancements, including many that have yet to be seen in an Unreal Engine game. The toolkit includes the Unreal Editor suite, which bundles a variety of tools including Unreal Content Browser, Unreal Script, Unreal Matinee, Unreal Cascade, Unreal Lightmass, AnimSet Viewer, AnimTree Editor and an NVIDIA PhysX-powered physics system.An unprecedented milestone in game development, the release of UDK awards free access to the same world-class tools and technology used by many of the world's best video game developers and publishers. Users are only limited by their imaginations.”
“UDK is Unreal Engine 3, which has been used to create games in a wide range of genres, as well as military simulations, 3D architectural walkthroughs, animated movies and more. “I’m excited about the possibilities the Unreal Development Kit opens to those who are looking to get into the game business but don’t otherwise have the means to acquire world-class technology and tools like ours,” said Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games.
Commercial applications developed using the free tools are subject to licensing fees, so it might be worth checking out the terms before getting too involved. Epic Games has announced that it’s making a version of its Unreal Engine 3 toolset available as a free download at The tools will give hobbyist developers, students and anyone else interested in working with the 3D engine a chance to do so without making any initial investment.
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