we know Torque is just sweating right now. I'm interested in whether Epic was beaten by Unity, rather than following it.

I agree with Drew - it would have taken much longer to prepare a UDK like this. Unity just announced a couple weeks ago, and I doubt Epic is worried about competing with Unity. They are completely different targets.

Even so, it will be interesting to see what Torque does, since they typically provide source code with their engine while U3 and Unity don't... that wouldn't work so well with a free version of their engine.

Having played with the UDK now - and having evaluated UE3 a couple years ago - it looks like the UDK is a compiled version of what you get when you license UE3 with a few assets thrown in for the "UDK" part. It wouldn't take long to package this at all from what they already have.

Of course that's not really important at this point. [smile] It's simply cool stuff that they've opened up their powerful toolset for everyone to see, and for the software geeks in us it's cool to see the difference in design paradigm between Unreal 3 and Unity.