Epic Games are being epic, as they have announced a funding pool of 5 million to throw at Unreal Engine developers.
The best thing about this new initiative is that there are no strings attached:
QuoteThe best part? There are absolutely no strings attached. Your project remains yours; you own your IP and publishing rights and you can spend any grant funds however you like. Epic’s goal is simply to help UE4 developers succeed because when you succeed, we succeed.
This is a pretty nice idea, and it may sway more developers to use Unreal Engine, and since it supports Linux it could be good news for us too.
I imagine that the projects will have to be quite something already to gain any funds, as I doubt Epic would throw money at everyone.
See their full announcement here.
What do you think to this move? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Segata Sanshiro Feb 19, 2015
Interesting idea.
I imagine they will choose games which will do well commercially though, or games which will do well commercially with a bit of extra funding, seeing it pay off when the 25% royalty starts coming in. At the same time they aren't going to throw money at huge studios either since they wouldn't need the money, so I assume it's mostly medium-sized studios which will benefit (would be very cool to see a small developer get some funds though).
It's a good incentive to get developers to use their engine, ultimately a win for everyone involved. Just wish the one string attached would be a Linux port :P
FYI, I think Epic are supposed to be one of the companies announcing glNext at the GDC.
I imagine they will choose games which will do well commercially though, or games which will do well commercially with a bit of extra funding, seeing it pay off when the 25% royalty starts coming in. At the same time they aren't going to throw money at huge studios either since they wouldn't need the money, so I assume it's mostly medium-sized studios which will benefit (would be very cool to see a small developer get some funds though).
It's a good incentive to get developers to use their engine, ultimately a win for everyone involved. Just wish the one string attached would be a Linux port :P
FYI, I think Epic are supposed to be one of the companies announcing glNext at the GDC.
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Not quite no strings attached... there is still the 5% royalties (making the grant more a loan, really). Still, for getting games off the ground in the first place the dev grants idea is a good one.
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Quoting: SslaxxNot quite no strings attached... there is still the 5% royalties (making the grant more a loan, really). Still, for getting games off the ground in the first place the dev grants idea is a good one.
That rule is there anyway and has nothing to do with this grant, so it is no strings.
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ElectricPrism Feb 19, 2015
Unreal 4 is fantastic, their UT4 beta is really fun and classic 2000 Unreal imo.
All games using Unreal Engine so far have been a pleasure to run, am looking foreward to U4 quite a bit :) Maybe Nexiuz will upgrade to it.
All games using Unreal Engine so far have been a pleasure to run, am looking foreward to U4 quite a bit :) Maybe Nexiuz will upgrade to it.
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I wonder if they will consider open source projects then ... I am thinking of working on one. (Project Freefall)
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Quoting: Segata SanshiroInteresting idea.
I imagine they will choose games which will do well commercially though, or games which will do well commercially with a bit of extra funding, seeing it pay off when the 25% royalty starts coming in. At the same time they aren't going to throw money at huge studios either since they wouldn't need the money, so I assume it's mostly medium-sized studios which will benefit (would be very cool to see a small developer get some funds though).
It's a good incentive to get developers to use their engine, ultimately a win for everyone involved. Just wish the one string attached would be a Linux port :P
FYI, I think Epic are supposed to be one of the companies announcing glNext at the GDC.
That 25% royalty thing was a Unreal Engine 3/Unreal Development Kit thing. The Unreal Engine 4 terms are quite different.
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