Gaming on Android smartphones continues to elevate as news came in this morning regarding the availability of the Unreal Development Kit (UDK). Epic Games VP Mark Rein confirmed to website Gamasutra that the UDK will appear on Android and they’ve been providing Unreal Engine 3 in source code format for their licensees for quite some time.
In the early days of Android, and by early I mean a year ago, the elephant in the room had always been the short supply of high-quality gaming titles. Over the past six months gaming for Android has evolved at a staggering pace. First with the Xperia Play announcement which brings the Playstation Suite and possibility of more Playstation-certified handsets and now the Unreal Development Kit (UDK).
The biggest hurdle left for Android in gaming is the size limitation for apps (50MB). For UDK specifically, the pressing issue is that Unreal is designed for high-end, high-quality-content games, which as no surprise, take up tremendous amounts of space. To put it simply, UDK requires cutting-edge hardware (think Tegra2) and needs a large amount of free storage.
“UDK will come eventually to Android, and Google is going to solve that problem – we know they’re working on it, but we don’t know the release date and we don’t know when it will get into the hands of all the different vendors with all the different phones,” said Rein.
Over on the iOS front, UDK proved to be a technological milestone for mobile gaming with the release of Epic’s Infinity Blade. Once Google removes that file size limitation expect an Android release. Sit back, relax, and get ready for the next generation of Android gaming my friends — it’s coming, very soon.
via GameIndustry.biz
