and the Epic Ecosystem
summary
Unreal Engine is free (since 2015) with a 5% royalty and more than 5 million users; Fortnite drives optimization across Android, iOS, Switch, Xbox, PlayStation and PC from a single project and reaches 250 million Fortnite players. Engine updates ship 3–4 times a year: 4.23 adds the Chaos physics engine, virtual texturing and faster ray‑tracing denoiser; compile times are now ~350% faster for full engine builds and small edits compile in seconds. Marketplace takes 12% marketplace fee, hosts ~9,000 products from ~2,300 sellers; Epic MegaGrants funds $100M.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:01Epic Games history
- 2:48Unreal Engine features
- 3:49Fortnite development
- 5:57Chaos physics engine
- 8:09Ray tracing improvements
- 9:13Unreal Insight
- 10:40Epic ecosystem
- 12:04Epic Store pricing
- 13:51Unreal Marketplace
- 15:15Unreal Fest
- 16:42Game jams
- 17:24Live streams
- 18:09Unreal beyond gaming
- 19:14Q&A
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