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Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine (UE) is a 3D computer graphics game engine developed by Epic Games, initially made for use in the 1998 first-person shooter video game Unreal. Originally developed for PC first-person shooters, it has since been used in a variety of genres of games and has been adopted by other industries, most notably the film and television industry.…

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Developer
Epic Games
License
Source-available commercial software with royalty model for commercial use
Operating system
Windows, Linux, macOS
Original author
Tim Sweeney
Repository
github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine
Stable release
5.8

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Unreal Engine

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Avg. degree1.98
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Unreal Engine

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related to Film and television · 25
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related to Other uses · 21
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related to Video games · 19
Unreal Engine → Battlegrounds, By, CD Projekt, Epic, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Fortnite, Gears, Hogwarts Legacy, Polish, PUBG, REDengine, The, The Witcher, Unity's, Unreal, Usage, Valorant, War, Yoshi's Crafted World
related to Verse · 16
Unreal Engine → Conceived, Core Calculus, December, Engineering Fellow, Epic Games, Fortnite, Functional Logic Programming, Haskell, Lennart Augustsson, March, Simon Peyton Jones, The Verse Calculus, Tim Sweeney, UEFN, Unreal Editor, Verse
related to UnrealScript · 13
Unreal Engine → Chris Norden, Deus Ex, Interfaces, Java, Object, Similar, The, Tim Sweeney, Unlike Java, Unreal Engine's, UnrealScript, UScript, ZZT-OOP
related to First generation · 12
Unreal Engine → Engine, Epic, Epic Games, Glide API, It, Linux, Mac, Tim Sweeney, Unix, Unreal, Voodoo Graphics, Windows
related to Marketplace · 10
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related to Unreal Engine 6 · 10
Unreal Engine → Epic Games, Fortnite, In, Lex Fridman, Sweeney, The, The Verge, Tim Sweeney, UEFN, Unreal Editor
related to Legal aspects · 9
Unreal Engine → App Store, Apple, Apple Inc, Apple's, Apple's App Store, Epic, Epic's, Fortnite, The
related to Unreal Engine 5 · 7
Unreal Engine → April, Detail, It, Level, Lumen, May, Nanite

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Unreal EngineDeveloperEpic Games1.00infobox
Unreal EngineLicenseSource-available commercial software with royalty model for commercial use1.00infobox
Unreal EngineOperating systemWindows, Linux, macOS1.00infobox
Unreal EngineOriginal authorTim Sweeney1.00infobox
Unreal EngineRepositorygithub.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine1.00infobox
Unreal EngineStable release5.81.00infobox
Unreal EngineWebsitewww.unrealengine.com1.00infobox
Unreal EngineWritten inC++1.00infobox
Quixelinstance ofEpic has incorporated features in the engine from acquired companies0.80text
Unreal Enginerelated to Film and televisionLED0.60section
Unreal Enginerelated to Film and televisionThis0.60section
Unreal Enginerelated to Film and televisionThe0.60section

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