When comparing UDK vs Yae, the Slant community recommends UDK for most people. In the question“What are the best 2D game engines?” UDK is ranked 73rd while Yae is ranked 106th. The most important reason people chose UDK is:
UDK has an extremely large toolset that allows creating almost anything without having to use a 3rd party tool or plugin.
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Pros
Pro Large toolset
UDK has an extremely large toolset that allows creating almost anything without having to use a 3rd party tool or plugin.
Pro Triple A track record
UDK is an engine used by many big name companies for popular games such as the Gears of War series.
Pro IDE
Ships with easy to use IDE created only for development in it
Pro Frequent updates
Updated weekly
Pro Cross-platform
Supports all major platforms
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- Android
- iOS
Pro Multiple languages support
Supports writing games in both Lua and JavaScript and for advanced users it´s plugin system also supports Java.
Cons
Con Superseded by Unreal Engine 4
Con DevKit only runs on Windows
Even though UDK can deploy games to run on multiple platforms, including Mac, it does not feature support for development on Mac.
Con Limits games to FPS
UDK was originally developed for the FPS, "Unreal Tournament", and it certainly shows. While UDK is a very powerful engine, it takes quite a bit of work to make it do something other than an FPS.
Con Lone developer
Con In early development
Do not have as much features as other listed engines.