Unreal Engine 3 devs won't pay royalties until they pass $50k in revenues
Friday, March 11, 2011
, Posted by Unknown at 10:10 PM
Epic Games has upped the point at which developers using its Unreal Development Kit must pay royalties from $5k to $50k.
Developers making a mobile game using the Unreal Engine 3 will no longer have to pay royalties to the engine's creator Epic Games when they pass $5,000 in revenues. The limit has now been set at ten times that amount - $50,000.
"We're really excited about folks making some amazing things with UDK and we realize that a lot of you are just started in the business so not having to pay royalties on your first $50,000 should help you get a financial footing toward building a quality game development business," says Epic boss Mark Rein.
Once a game passes $50,000 in revenues, developers start paying a 25% royalty to Epic Games on their revenues.
The Unreal Development Kit has been used for big iOS games like Infinity Blade (pictured) and Dungeon Defenders - a trend that is spreading to Android devices too.
To give a concrete example for mobile: once an iOS developer makes more than $50,000 in revenues from the App Store, they will start paying a 25% share of their net revenues to Epic.
in other words, once their UDK-powered game is successful, the gross sales will be divvied up 30% to Apple, 17.5% to Epic Games, and 52.5% to the developer.
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