Unreal Engine 3 for 14.99

[Lee3dee]

The 1st game to use Ue3 came out on steam 2 days ago, RoboBlitz. The game is an OK puzzler, however a full version of the Ue3 editor is shipped with the game. If you interested in playing with it, head over to steam and check it out for 14.99

http://steampowered.com/v/index.php?are ... ppId=4300&

be good to learn the editor now, before Ut2007 comes out

[Minos]

Nice The game looks rather bad though.

[OL]

Can you post up some screenshots? How's it compare to UED2?

[JeanPaul]

Robotblitz's maps look horrendous.

[Grinwhrl]

I'd rather wait for UT2007 so there is something worth using with it. But if its sweet to use with thats games resources let me know the details.

[Squirrelly]

You've gotta' give them credits for using procedural textures on a next generation game.

[KungFuSquirrel]

Consider that the game lives in a 50mb footprint for XBLA support, and I'm impressed

[Hourences]

People always seem to expect that budget games look as cool as tripple A games. They are budget games people, they are not suppose to blow everything away.

I think the editor deal is going to land them perhaps even tens of thousands of extra sales purely for the editor so that was a smart step to take of them.

Planning on releasing beginners tuts for it next week or so.

[Grinwhrl]

I Think I wll purchase it for the head start

[Lee3dee]

I agree with you Hourences, this release of RoboBlitz can only produce sales to get people looking to get a head start on the editor before UT2007 comes out. I'm going to start working on some tutorials too, maybe we should work together

RoboBlitz is a modified editor and everything that you can do in UE3 you can do in this editor. Only downside is that i cannot play a simple BSP level without the editor freezing. Not sure if anyone else gets this problem.

Its definately worth the 14.99 for the editor, if you want to get a jump start on learning

[RD]

But you dont actually buy the engine for 15 bux do you?

[⌐■_■]

yeah i guess the commercial rigths dont come with the package hahaha

[Hourences]

Ofcourse you dont get the commercial rights and also not the source code. Just like you dont get the Quake 4 source code either if you buy the game. You do get the game and the editor and you can mod the engine like that.

When UE4 comes out Im going to license it for a low budget game and then the next day sell the package for 10 dollar each as a "dev kit". Itll prolly be proffitable after a week already because so many people want to check out the new engine

Lee3dee perhaps, I got a friend who might also want to join in.

Where would you host it ?

[Warby]

steam doesnt except my credit card ( new egg and paypal and everyone else does though ) ^^ so i have to wiat for ut2k7

i have a question for the people that use unreal engine 3 at work what version is unreal ed in ? i know the version that came with ut2k4 was unreal ed 3 and back than all unreal mappers called it ue3 and now everyone calls unreal-engine 3 ue3 ^^ i get royally confused by that is it unrealed 4.0 or what ????

btw firefox 2.0 s spell check knowss the word mapper FTW !

[Hourences]

nono, UT2004 ued is UED3. Notice the D. the D is important. Without D it becomes UE3 which is a whole other thing.

Another thing lots of people do wrong is describe it as the U3 engine. How can a game (unreal 3) that doesnt exist yet possibly have an engine?

Afaik, because it is indeed confusing, they simply dropped the editor version in UE3. Its just called "the editor" now, without a clear number in the name.