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Add to SafariWhen comparing UDK vs GameApi, the Slant community recommends UDK for most people. In the question“What are the best 3D game engines?” UDK is ranked 17th while GameApi is ranked 58th. 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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Question Ranking
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 All combinations of the features are working
In order to enable creation of 100 different kind of games, GameApi features are fully supporting all combinations of the existing features. This allows for huge amount of flexibility. The API carefully documents all dependencies between independent plugin-like modules and allows for combining their features in c++ code.
Pro Selection of 2d and 3d algorithms and techniques that construct opengl vertex arrays
The library is based on constructing opengl vertex arrays for 2d and 3d features including changing mesh colours, attaching textures, building larger worlds from smaller meshes, selection of predefined meshes like spheres, cubes and cones, Model loading from .obj files. Font support, gradient and other 2d bitmap operations, creation of 3d objects from bitmaps, Manipulation of points, lines, faces.
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Con Superseded by Unreal Engine 4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 In alpha
GameApi has just recently moved from pre-alpha to alpha status.
