Comments - drillep

Different background, I'm developing course material for a college computing department. I was working under the pretense that we would be using Unity and I picked up C# then familiarised myself with the engine. Later I found that the college wouldn't be able to purchase a license so I began researching different engines and solutions to my problem.
I have built simple games using C# in Visual Studio, I even read through half a book on Playstation Mobile development but didn't feel like the course would stand the scrutiny of our students. I resorted to researching game engines with free educational licenses, and here I am. I looked at the Source Engine but struggled to get it up and running, I moved onto CryEngine which I am now weighing up against UDK as my engine of choice.
I'm building a simple car racing demo for the course which is easy to achieve in both of these engines, CryEngine is superior but UDK has a lot going for it. Plus UE4 educational license is reasonable. Building a demo in both CryEngine and UDK before I make a choice about the right engine is a lot of extra work, but choosing the right engine will improve the quality of the teaching and teaching resources.