Unity 4 license compare with UDK, CRytek, Gamebryo, Unigine, Marmelade,Shiva3D etc...

Most game developer who are serious about games development barely choose UDK. There are only a few commercial titles done in UDK.
Most titles they advertise as UDK games (like Hawken, Dungeon Defenders etc.) are actually made with the full license of UnrealEngine. And that is something you can't afford.

UDK is a nice toy for modder and 3d artists, who use it for their portfolios.

And btw. There are people who made millions with Unity games. Not just prototypes..

 

Game Maker Studio > all!

*runs away quickly

 

Anyone saying UDK it's better than Unity it's an amateur and don't know a dime about game development. Unity has everthing you need to create any kind of game fast. It's by far the most user-friendly, modular and extensible engine I've ever worked with. Has the best shader pipeline, best asset pipeline, best editor, it's fast and open. The best of all, you don't need source license to do all that. UDK it's a half-baked mastodon plethora of sh*ts, old, rigid, impossible to customize and requires you sources for advanced stuff (which all games needs for). If you really want to create a game go with Unity. CryEngine.... well i don't even think it worth mention in here.

 

*Takes aim with a crossbow.

 

Hawken was actually made with UDK, that's why the trailers show the UDK logo and not the UE3 logo. I don't know if they've changed to a full license since then. Also Epic don't advertise dungeon defenders as a UDK game.

Well there's antichamber, chivalry, the prototype of dungeon defenders and q.u.b.e (which was made with out any coding). They're all clearly just a UT3 or gears clone, right? I'm not saying UDK is better than Unity or vice versa but I am saying your wrong, very wrong. I know you love Unity but there's no need to slander the competition particularly on Unity's forums, as people here most likely already love Unity as well. All you're doing is giving Unity's community a bad name and the reputation of Unity's community isn't the best to start with.

 

Sure, Unity is good start for any Games Dreamer

 

Manhunt begins.

 

I don't speak or think in the name of the community, neither the community does it in my name. I have long enough experimented and used UDK (even before it ever exist I was working on UT mods) to get into those conclusions and those are my personals thoughs on UDK. Though when UDK4 (or whatever will be called) came out, I'll see how good it is and if it fits my needs but right now Unity still wins over UDK, like it or not.
Btw, If you feel offended somehow with my post, take my friendly excuses in advance.

 

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OMG, CryEngine is too damn good if we see it graphic wise, i made a test level it was so beautiful, i wish unity was just the same. I just hope Unity will be one day . Anyway, CryEngine team/Company is a night mare for license they have too much of ego, arrogance all that (my Opinion). Ask me why ?
read this and the links (Cry-Adam)

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/105142-make-crytek-give-me-my-damn-indie-license/

They never reply to Indie developers just because they we can't pay them enough (what i think it is) and they would never reply if you send a license request with a common domain for e.g. @gmail.com or @hotmail.com etc... I am never using that, i just used it for today thank god. This ^^ forum saved me from wasting my precious time.

I would stick to Unity3d, because they are not full of arrogance or pride or ego. Unity don't die for money, because they allow us to even sell games made by the free version of Unity. That much, they care for us (unity). I would not recommend you to use CryEngine until you are some kind of a millionaire.

I feel SORRY for the guy (in the forum, link above) who spent 1 year to make his game with his team of 8 and ended up being ignored by Crytek for license, his game is deleted by their community. Feel so sad for him.

That is why i recommend Unity not because they are simply the best but AWESOMELY FANTASTIC

If you are new to this development, then Go for unity

And don't forget you still have the asset store to make your life easy as hell in Unity3d

 

This is why you should avoid CryEngine at all costs!!!
Here: http://www.crydev.net/viewtopic.php?f=355&p=1075219
Crytek Indie support, indie licensing, small developers? Yeah right, keep dreaming...

 

I have a strong impression that after they released CryEngine to the public and promised to make an indie commercial license "in the future", they changed their mind and thought it was a terrible idea to begin with that they released it to the public.

Some people are waiting for the indie commercial license still to this day...

 

Several months and even a year, that's just ridiculous. They've open up to the masses only to get more visibility but they don't want to deal with lot of indies, hobbyist or students, they still want only multimillion studios to license their crappy engine.
People should start to tweet about this sh*t Crytek is doing to the smaller developers. I mean F***, there's a lot of people already finished their game with CryEngine but can't sell their games because of all those crappy license sh*ts...
See folks? Better safe than sorry! Keep using Unity if you don't want any surprise in the run...

 

Hm not sure if there has been really that many people finishing projects with Crytek, at least what i have seen on forums is pretty much not a single finished project, and the only project with a bit advanced gameplay is Snow, the rest is pretty much not done at all. But yeh there is one huge missleading gap on licensing for Cryengine: It should be put up with huge labels-if your indie project will not shine AAA quallity you will not be able to release it no matter of the rules, unless you purchase full license. But on other hand the good thing is that Cryengine and UDK both automatically push away most of beginners due to their difficult pipeline and spare them problems with licensing in future.

 

In the (aptly named) "Cry" forums, there's more of an iron hand when it goes in that direction.

EDIT: Indeed comparisons also cannot be made in UDK forums! It's just when moderators didn't see it.

 

Not the truth. Engine comparison is not allowed on the UDK forum.. So, the forum members do not really have time to discuss about this sort of thing.

 

Double checked it. Indeed it is forbidden. I just saw those because the moderators didn't see it.

 

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