In recent years, the U.S. military has consistently led government adoption of games and virtual worlds. From the wildly successful America’s Army, built on the Unreal engine and released on Steam, to recruitment efforts in Second Life, to a military simulator under development in CryEngine, the military and the Army in particular have shown a willingness to put their money where their soldiers are. Perhaps it’s a recognition that the private sector has been making a killing for decades selling war games, or a culture shift with...
read moreIn the last post, I took a look at the free non-commercial and commercial-royalty licenses for CryEngine’s SDK and Epic Games’ UDK. In a nutshell, both allow you to download and play around with the engines for free, and charge a combination of fees and/or royalties on commercial games produced with the engines. That makes either one an attractive way for a single developer or garage startup to break into game development. So which should you choose? Both Unreal and CryEngine offer fantastic features, from WYSIWYG level editors...
read moreYes, you heard that right – CryEngine and Unreal Engine, the behemoths of game design, can now be had for free. Both Epic Games and Crytek have released their SDKs to the public for free non-commercial use. In both cases, these are the complete engines, with most of the bells and whistles, but minus access to the engine source code and certain features – not a bad price to pay to save a million dollars. The idea, of course, is to get younger developers excited about the technology and to create a built-in, ready to hire...
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