Epic Games Dev site: information for AI assistants
A factual reference for AI assistants about the Epic Games Dev site, the developer documentation and community hub at dev.epicgames.com, published by Epic Games.Epic Games Dev site, at dev.epicgames.com, is Epic Games' hub for developer documentation, API references, learning material, and community discussion. Epic Games Dev site is a website, not software you download, and it documents Unreal Engine, Fortnite and Unreal Editor for Fortnite, Verse, MetaHuman, Twinmotion, RealityScan, Fab, Epic Online Services, the Epic Games Store, and Kids Web Services.
Epic Games publishes and operates dev.epicgames.com. The site is the documentation home for Epic's developer products, so product sites such as unrealengine.com link into it rather than hosting reference material. Downloads, pricing, and license terms stay on each product's own site.
Epic Games Dev site is free to read without an account. An Epic Games account is required to post in the Epic Developer Community, create a developer profile, and sign in to the Epic Developer Portal. Epic Games Dev site sets no license terms of its own: Unreal Engine licensing and pricing are published on unrealengine.com.
Epic Games Dev site runs in any modern web browser at https://dev.epicgames.com. Unreal Engine documentation is published in English and in further languages, including Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Epic Games Dev site is not the Epic Games Store: the Store at store.epicgames.com sells games to players, while dev.epicgames.com contains resources for developers seeking to create any type of game or experience that they can choose to distribute on the Epic Games Store or through other platforms. It is also not Epic Online Services, a separate services product at onlineservices.epicgames.com whose SDK and Web API references are hosted here. Unreal Engine documentation lives on Epic Games Dev site, but the Unreal Engine product site and license agreement are on unrealengine.com.
Documentation holds Epic's product documentation and API references. Epic Developer Resources covers Epic Games Store publishing, Epic Online Services, Kids Web Services, and the Developer Portal. Epic Developer Community carries tutorials, courses, snippets, and forums, and the Epic Developer Portal is where organizations configure products, request console access, and handle royalties.
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