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Nov 2009

This week the news of the week was the release of the famous, probably world's best game engine free to download and uncommercial use. I'm talking about Unreal Engine in form of UDK - Unreal Development Kit.

At first glance it looks like a small revolution, but when you download (562 MB) and install (1.25 GB) the package, you will see it's actually not an SDK at all. There is no source code or even headers and libraries to code your own game in C++ using this engine. It's just the game editor and the only thing you can do besides graphics and level design is scripting gameplay mechanics in UnrealScript. Just like Game Maker, only more advanced ;)

Nevertheless I think it's important news and the editor is worth seeing. All in all Unreal Engine is a great technology used by countless commercial game developers. I've started reading UnrealScript Reference and I'm amazed by concepts of this language like object states, latent code or replication. Now I feel like making a game with the Unreal Engine, but as I'm neither good artist nor good level designer, soon I will probably go back to my own C++ code, just knowing how a good game engine should look like.

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