Unreal Engine

"The best choice for ambitious 3D Games"

Kommentare: I really liked using Unreal and prototyping quick ideas. It's a really flexible engine and really powerful. Even the testing stuff look and run great. I wish there was a more open community that helped each other out or introduced new users to advanced knowledge of the engine that you will only earn with time by using it.

Vorteile: Unreal Engine has grown over the years and it's now more friendly to single developers, indy movie produces and indy game studios as well. It has a robust toolset that allows you to create 3D games with one of the best engines for realistic looks, yet you can use models that fit your artistic vision, ex: stylized games. If you want an example of how small studios can make a good unreal game, look for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and if you want to look for AAA Games that look extremely realistic or movie quality, look at Gears of War 5 or Kingdom Hearts 3. Unreal also has an asset store where you can buy models or tools to help you quickly build or prototype your game and it has a blueprint system that allows you to program your game logic without knowing how to write in C++. The engine also runs in a myriad of platforms including mobile.

Nachteile: One of the downsides of Unreal is how complex it is when comparing it to Godot or Unity. The community for it, it's very small and a lot of the people who have knowledge on Unreal are tied behind studio contracts and maybe they're not allowed to share or help around in the web much, but when you look at Unity, there's dozens and dozens of websites, youtubers, courses and resources that you could basically build a game with no knowledge, but in Unreal it will take a lot of time and expertise on what you're doing. Also one last thing, you can build 2D games in Unreal, but you're better off using GameMaker or Unity for 2D Games. The community and engine support is just bigger and bettter.

"It's a technical marvel, but know what you're getting into."

Kommentare: Unreal Engine is always interesting to use in game jams for graphical fidelity, though at times Unreal Engine projects can become a mess when working on commercial games. People need to know accurately what they're getting into when building a new game in Unreal, because for some it's overwhelming, for others it's like trying to get a game out of modding a first-person shooter, and then for some it ends up being a good choice for their game. Once your whole team is experienced with it, Unreal Engine can be quite good, depending on which genre of game you're going for.

Vorteile: Unreal Engine games are excellently visually impressive, and the cross-platform functionality is very good. Even though it's more technically impressive, it's still more stable than Unity. The updates are frequent and prioritize bug fixes more accurately than Unity, and Unreal's pricing is certainly second-to-none.

Nachteile: A lot of aspects of the editor are unnecessary to make a good game and end up getting in the way more than anything else. The occasional crashes are always saddening, but it's still more stable than most of Unreal's competition.

"The best AAA game engine for professionals"

Kommentare: We needed to create a good looking third person adventure prototype quickly. With its out of the box awesome graphics setup and blueprints came to our rescue. We were able to create a satisfying, good-looking prototype within a couple of weeks because of Unreal. So, whenever graphics play an important role in games, the choice will be Unreal.

Vorteile: The most prominent feature Unreal Engine offers you is its fantastic graphical prowess. Even without extensive work, you get AAA quality graphics setup ready for you to unleash your imagination on. The lighting, the shadows, the rendering, it just works. You get some beautiful visuals in your games if you spend a little time tinkering around, without much pain. And its Blueprints feature is the best in the industry, enabling you to get up and running very quickly to get started on creating prototypes and even full featured games. And both of these features eclipse any offering offered by any free to use game engines. If you need the best and the greatest, Unreal Engine is the way to go.

Nachteile: The learning curve could and should be improved for Unreal Engine. Even with previous knowledge of C++, learning the nuances and the ways of Unreal C++ was no easy task. And, Blueprints, although really easy once you get the hang of it, is kind of hard to get at first. To remedy this, Unreal must provide more resources and learning materials. Another of my major concern is that mobile game development seems like just an afterthought on this engine. The Console/PC development is the tops, but deploying to mobile is a hard task.

"Great tool"

Vorteile: Really great tool for game development with limitless possibilities.

Nachteile: Steep learning curve, its hard to get the hang of.

"Easy to use, with wide variety of games already in the engine; needs better community support"

Kommentare: I've enjoyed it, and have created some fun 3d environments. As with most EG resources, its dependable and gets the job done.

Vorteile: There's already a wide array of games available to run in the engine. Since its so widely deployed already, the array of available games for sampling and ideas are endless. I also like how they constantly provide updates and patches for bug fixes, sometimes multiple times a week. There really isnt any way to beat the pricing, unless a platform is going to pay you to use their engine ( LOL)

Nachteile: The editor is more complicated that Photoshop's tool set, if that's possible! So the learning curve is HUGE!
There's a ton of options that are not relevant to current projects, so the tool set should be dynamic rather than static.
For an engine this widely used, it's baffling that there is not a better online community for support, ideas, and think-tanking. If Epic can't develop their own, they should fund some 3rd party projects.
Wish they had better 2d tools.