What's New With the Unreal Engine UDK

What we need is Speed Beard.

Awesome.

@gunslingerNZ said:

Hmm I dunno nothing all that stunning. Neat that people can earn the first $50,000 royalty free but I wonder what the costs are like beyond that.

20% royalties

Not a terrible price to pay for such a high quality engine, but if you put it on Steam that means 50% of your sales are gone in royalties... which could be pretty detrimental to a small indie studio.

@Khann: Thanks for the link man.

@dvorak said:

@bkbroiler said:

@aurahack said:

@bkbroiler said:

@dvorak said:

@bkbroiler said:

YO, HOW MANY VERTS YOU GOT ON THAT? I NEED AT LEAST 400.

FUCK DUDE THAT IS WAY TOO MANY CRANK IT DOWN TO AT LEAST 267!

NAW SON. I WANNA SEE 300 MORE VERTS IN THERE BY LUNCHTIME OR IT'S YOUR ASS!

BOTH OF YOU NEED TO HAVE AT LEAST 473 VERTS ON MY DESK BY TOMORROW OR I'M TAKING THIS TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

GODAMMIT AURAHACK! YOUR VERTS HAVE NEARLY WRECKED THE WHOLE TOWN! NO MORE OF THIS LOOSE CANNON BULLSHIT OR I'M GOING TO HAVE TO ASK FOR YOUR STYLUS AND ID CARD.

OH GOD I'M COVERED IN VERTS! I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS!

YO DOG WE ALL ASKED FOR THIS SHIIITTTT! JUST PULL SOME FUCKING SICK VERTS 

Speed Tree®, meet Speed Bush™and Speed Mountain™.

Hmm I dunno nothing all that stunning. Neat that people can earn the first $50,000 royalty free but I wonder what the costs are like beyond that.

thanks epic, you continue to release some pretty decent games, all the while understanding how hard it is for new developers to start from nothing.

My jaw just dropped so damn hard.

The Samaritan! :D

Freaking awesome!

am i a dumbass for watching that, and going "Hell yea! New unreal tournament!" when i saw the link gun?

@bkbroiler said:

@aurahack said:

@bkbroiler said:

@dvorak said:

@bkbroiler said:

YO, HOW MANY VERTS YOU GOT ON THAT? I NEED AT LEAST 400.

FUCK DUDE THAT IS WAY TOO MANY CRANK IT DOWN TO AT LEAST 267!

NAW SON. I WANNA SEE 300 MORE VERTS IN THERE BY LUNCHTIME OR IT'S YOUR ASS!

BOTH OF YOU NEED TO HAVE AT LEAST 473 VERTS ON MY DESK BY TOMORROW OR I'M TAKING THIS TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

GODAMMIT AURAHACK! YOUR VERTS HAVE NEARLY WRECKED THE WHOLE TOWN! NO MORE OF THIS LOOSE CANNON BULLSHIT OR I'M GOING TO HAVE TO ASK FOR YOUR STYLUS AND ID CARD.

OH GOD I'M COVERED IN VERTS! I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS!

@bkbroiler said:

@aurahack said:

@bkbroiler said:

@dvorak said:

@bkbroiler said:

YO, HOW MANY VERTS YOU GOT ON THAT? I NEED AT LEAST 400.

FUCK DUDE THAT IS WAY TOO MANY CRANK IT DOWN TO AT LEAST 267!

NAW SON. I WANNA SEE 300 MORE VERTS IN THERE BY LUNCHTIME OR IT'S YOUR ASS!

BOTH OF YOU NEED TO HAVE AT LEAST 473 VERTS ON MY DESK BY TOMORROW OR I'M TAKING THIS TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

GODAMMIT AURAHACK! YOUR VERTS HAVE NEARLY WRECKED THE WHOLE TOWN! NO MORE OF THIS LOOSE CANNON BULLSHIT OR I'M GOING TO HAVE TO ASK FOR YOUR STYLUS AND ID CARD.

OH GOD I'M COVERED IN VERTS! I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS!

Hey, when did epic beard man get a game?

*Delayed Texture Pop-In is an optional feature, and may cost extra. 
 
But in all seriousness, that looks pretty great.

The Beard beard still looks better. Wait, that wasn't in game and was live action footage? Oh.

@aurahack said:

@bkbroiler said:

@dvorak said:

@bkbroiler said:

YO, HOW MANY VERTS YOU GOT ON THAT? I NEED AT LEAST 400.

FUCK DUDE THAT IS WAY TOO MANY CRANK IT DOWN TO AT LEAST 267!

NAW SON. I WANNA SEE 300 MORE VERTS IN THERE BY LUNCHTIME OR IT'S YOUR ASS!

BOTH OF YOU NEED TO HAVE AT LEAST 473 VERTS ON MY DESK BY TOMORROW OR I'M TAKING THIS TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

GODAMMIT AURAHACK! YOUR VERTS HAVE NEARLY WRECKED THE WHOLE TOWN! NO MORE OF THIS LOOSE CANNON BULLSHIT OR I'M GOING TO HAVE TO ASK FOR YOUR STYLUS AND ID CARD.

That adam's apple looks like a Rorschach test.

@dvorak said:

@bkbroiler said:

YO, HOW MANY VERTS YOU GOT ON THAT? I NEED AT LEAST 400.

FUCK DUDE THAT IS WAY TOO MANY CRANK IT DOWN TO AT LEAST 267!

NAW SON. I WANNA SEE 300 MORE VERTS IN THERE BY LUNCHTIME OR IT'S YOUR ASS!

Motion blur can go fuck itself in the rectum.

Seriously.

@dvorak said:

@bkbroiler said:

YO, HOW MANY VERTS YOU GOT ON THAT? I NEED AT LEAST 400.

FUCK DUDE THAT IS WAY TOO MANY CRANK IT DOWN TO AT LEAST 267!

NAW SON. I WANNA SEE 300 MORE VERTS IN THERE BY LUNCHTIME OR IT'S YOUR ASS!

Is there like a FAQ or manual out there for the UDK? Has anyone ever messed with it? Let's say I want to make scenic Oblivion like landscapes and have no programming experience, is it relatively easy to just start and dig in? I don't have any intentions on making a playable game, just cool scenic fly bys and stuff like that.

Speed grass!? Take that Speed Tree!

looks like a  rushed response to the cry engine sdk release, half the footage was old & half the features were from the previous half year

@thornie said:

Is there like a FAQ or manual out there for the UDK? Has anyone ever messed with it? Let's say I want to make scenic Oblivion like landscapes and have no programming experience, is it relatively easy to just start and dig in? I don't have any intentions on making a playable game, just cool scenic fly bys and stuff like that.

Yes, there is a manual.

http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/WebHome.html

No, it isn't particularly easy to use. It's a professional game engine (it is literally Unreal Engine 3.. only you don't get the source code to play with).

For what you want to do though, I imagine you wouldn't need to go too far past the terrain editor and matinee. Though you would need to dig into texturing etc.

In other words, it's not something you're going to get satisfying results with in an afternoon.

The most exciting thing about this video is the confirmation that someone at Epic remembers that Jazz Jackrabbit is still a thing they own.

i have one of those on my balls

@mfpantst@RE_Player92: There's no Giantbomb exclusive guys, the tagline is tongue-in-cheek!

@bkbroiler said:

YO, HOW MANY VERTS YOU GOT ON THAT? I NEED AT LEAST 400.

FUCK DUDE THAT IS WAY TOO MANY CRANK IT DOWN TO AT LEAST 267!

Is there like a FAQ or manual out there for the UDK? Has anyone ever messed with it? Let's say I want to make scenic Oblivion like landscapes and have no programming experience, is it relatively easy to just start and dig in? I don't have any intentions on making a playable game, just cool scenic fly bys and stuff like that.

Vert-tastic!

Later GiantBomb I'm off to make games with UDK

is this powered by beards?

@zaglis said:

Gears of War 3 at 1:35 was totally played with a mouse, right? Right, guys? RIGHT?

Well.. yeah, they were testing it on the PC.

That is to many verts!

Also, wasn't epic in hot water in the past with Silicon Knights for not providing the latest SDK to devs and using its own franchise (gears) to promote new features and preventing devs from using it first or providing support?

@Newjack: That part actually came out a while ago in some other footage, most of this trailer is actually old really, from various things. I believe the Beards thing was actually a response to this, not the other way around. Could be wrong though.

Gears of War 3 at 1:35 was totally played with a mouse, right?
Right, guys?  RIGHT?

Bah, after all the work updating our scipts to the May 2011 UDK, Backfire is going to sit there until we're effing done.

(Also, website coming soon so I can actually link and show off the project.)

Beardwatch 2011!

@Mr_Skeleton said:

After writing a primitive graphics engine I can no longer say any game looks like crap.

Since I made "Snake" in C, I'm basically impressed by everything.

Beards?

i guess it's a good reason to buy a mac now. single person game developer incoming!

YO, HOW MANY VERTS YOU GOT ON THAT? I NEED AT LEAST 400.

Holy crap, that reflection.

Was that a new jazz jackrabbit game for iPhone?

After writing a primitive graphics engine I can no longer say any game looks like crap.

I guess Unreal has risen to the challenge!

After writing a primitive graphics engine I can no longer say any game looks like crap.

I really want to believe that this is just to get back at Twisted Pixel.