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in which case Unreal's licensing is an amazingly great deal for you Never before has so much great games tech been freely available to everyone like this! Personally, I'd say that if these numbers sound like a large amount of money to you, then you're a hobbyist. This also means that Unreal takes about 10% of your actual earnings so you quickly go back to your old job before you become homelesss).

If you then pay 25% income tax, you're left with just ~$28k, which is about half of what you made gross! It will also probably just pay your rent in LA ( with no money left for food, electricity, transport, etc. For simplicity let's say you release one game a year,В it makes all of it's sales in one quarter right after release, and that you make exactly the amount of sales that you required to meet your target of $57k. Each year you then need to sell $40k / 70% = ~$57k at retail, so that you'll end up getting your $40k after the middleman takes their slice. Let's say you set the bar low and are happy at half your old programmer's salary though, which comes to aroundВ $40kВ ( which may sound like a lot if you're not in the workforce, but if you live in a big city, it doesn't go far). At a typical start-up it's more like $120k, but that's straying. You can also put a chunk of your 'normal salary' that you have now into a savings account, so once you're at the point in your career that you've out-grown these companies and want to start your own legitimately, you've got the capital to do so without starving to death.ДЄ typical gamedev salary in the USA is $80k/year.

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It's a lot easier to make a learning project when you simply don't involve money at all.В You should just focus on increasing your gamedev skills to the point where you can get hired by a legit/professional gamedev company, start building your career, and then continue to improve your skills at an exponential rate because you're now spending every day surrounded by experienced professional gamedevs.

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When I started out, we didn't have every single newbie gamedev downloading Unreal for free and unsuccessfully trying to sell their beginner-level games for money.

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Personally, if you're at the point where you'd be excited to work full time for half of minimum wage, you shouldn't also be trying to run a money-making business at the same time. but here, it's also below the taxation threshold so the government won't bother even taxing you because you're too poor to survive already. $15kpa for a full time job is about $7.50 to $8.60 per hour, which is so low as to be highly illegal where I live We're talking before tax here too.

I would be like a little kid at Christmas to make $15k per year back when I started game development! I do agree without a doubt that Unreal will cost a lot more with larger revenues, but I don't see this as an issue with any beginner game developers releasing indie games.Д«ig brand studios usually have different packages in place besides what we see as a flat 5% due to predicted revenue, and a successful track record of sales that guarantees Epic Games a big commissionВ if they close a deal for that studio to use their engine. Unity has come along way and is still making ground, but it's not on par with Unreal yet in its entirety. I also don't consider Unreal and Unity in the same class of engines in terms of out of the box features. If you're considering a much bigger sales count of $30,000,000.00 USD, yes Unreal will cost you way more at $1,499,400.00 USD per year, but I doubt the OP will be bringing in those numbers, and my comment is geared towards beginners trying to sell their games, I doubt even sales of 3000 units for any unknown studio without a decent marketing budget and strategy in place would happen. Unreal would be your best choice in this scenario for a one or very small studio.

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Or with Unity Plus per seat each year is $395.00 USD, or Pro at $1500 USD per seat each year. Assuming a high 3000 unit sales per year at $4.99 is $3742.50 USDВ per quarter equaling $148.50 USD per year less the $3000. I personally lookВ at this in terms of hobbyist sales. The price is cheaper when considering unit sales of average indie games. Also for a AAA game with a $10M budget, they'd probably end up paying at least $700k in licensing, which is crazy, so they'd definitely negotiate for a better deal than that. If you're planning on making a game that pays you a normal salary (not a hobby / free time game), this actually works out to cost you about double what a Unity pro subscription for each of your team members would.