Hey
I’m making a game in UE5 that I would like to release on GitHub. I’ve read that there are some kind of fees for releasing a game made with Unreal Engine, or does that only apply to games that are supposed to cost something. My game will be available for free and will not make any revenue, so I was wondering if I need to pay anything to Epic Games so I can publish my game?
How exactly do the “payment” policies apply to free games?
Really looking forward to an answer!
Louis
Nobody on this forum is a lawyer.
That being said, I’ve seen this done by others, and the reason they can do it, is that you’re free to release any code you write and assets you create, as long as they don’t consist mostly of EPIC sourced data/code.
Thus, you can’t include a copy of the engine code in the checkin. You can’t include the starter content source in the checkin. You CAN include built output, especially if you add a lot of other derived content yourself – it’s OK to use the default skybox, the default chairs, and whatever source comments happen to be included in new files you create with “add C++ class.”
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Hello,
Thanks for the answer! What exactly is “Starter Content Source”? Only thing I have yet are the chairs and everything else that gets created automatically in a new C++ profile. Anything I need to remove there?
Louis