Why use Unreal Engine for game development?

Within these years, Unreal Engine has proved itself in terms of game development and become one of the necessary tools in today’s game industry. If you want to create stunning visuals content for your game, Unreal Engine could easily offer its tools for that. In this article, let’s explore the reasons why you should use Unreal Engine for game development.

Unreal Engine has so many advantages which makes it appealing to indie and big game studios.

This is the first and foremost reason why Unreal Engine is so popular to game studios, it’s free to use. Developing and releasing a game need a lot of hard work and it could take years for small and indie game to make a profit. Unreal will only take a 5% of revenue once a game has made $1 million commercially. It could reduce much pressure on free project and hobbyists.

And because Unreal Engine is free, anyone interested in can access and learn it by themselves. It helps grow the community and cut down the training cost when a game studio needs to hire a game developer.

When talking about visual graphics, Unreal Engine is an AAA game engine and has ability to gain photorealistic quality, making it stand out and become the choice for many high-budget and high-profile games. UE enables you to create visually colorful and imaginative graphics, with the help of a system of lighting, shading, textures, effects, etc. in a very photorealistic way. You can easily tell from some of the famous 3D games made by Epic – the provider of UE, such as Fornite, Street Fighter 5, Final Fantasy VII remake, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Matrix Awakens and the list goes on.

You can develop games on Unreal Engine in 6 different languages, C++, C#, Python, Javascript, Lua and their own Blueprints.

Unreal Engine’s visual scripting system, Blueprint, will help you a lot with prototyping and iteration. In Blueprint, you can drag-and-drop nodes and add wires to connect them and add logic. If you don’t have a technical background, this node-based interface is a lifesaver because you can easily explore your ideas without knowing how to code.

Unreal Engine can be used to develop graphic contents for PC (Windows, mac, Linux), mobile phone (iOS, Android), web games, consoles (Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo consoles). This is a huge advantage as other game engines cost extra money of the initial license to support different platforms, while it’s all included for free with Unreal.

Unreal Engine’s community and courses are large and still growing, as the engine is free and slowly taking over the 3D game industry.

The support from Epic is top-notch. If you are a paying Unreal user with a custom license, you will have the direct attention of Epic’s development team. If you are a free user, don’t worry as they have a forum, tutorials and online resources to help you find the answer.

Of course, a game consists of millions of crates, and not many game developers want to make everything. To make it easier for you, UE offers Marketplace FAB where you can find and buy any assets with a well-priced.

We have shown you many advantages of Unreal Engine in game industry. If you want to create your own game with a stunning visual or want to have more opportunity in AAA game industry, go with Unreal Engine.

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