The following is a list of important facts about the Basic Edition.

The price is $100 (USD) per user.

The header files for the C4 Engine SDK are included. The Basic Edition does not include the source code for the engine, tools, or demo game. However, the source code for the tutorial projects is included.

The engine runs under Windows XP/Vista/7 and Mac OS X 10.5.x/10.6.x.

Project files are included for Visual Studio 2008/2010 and Xcode 3.

You receive all future updates at no additional cost, forever.

You are not allowed to sell a C4-based product. To do so, you need the Standard Edition. (However, you can give away games made with the Basic Edition for free.)

You can upgrade to the Standard Edition for $150 per user.

Thousands of independent developers already use the C4 Engine for their game projects, and they've had great things to say about their experiences. Read their reviews on DevMaster.net.

Hands down C4 has the best support I have ever seen for any engine.

An absolute knockout engine with the power of a AAA engine at the cost of an indie engine. You can't go wrong.

The structure of the source code is the best I've ever seen. Clean, well presented, and clearly very well thought out.

The rendering is superb, and the engine is chock full of high performance, high-powered graphics capabilities.

High-quality features keep making their way into the core, and those features tend to be perfectly solid, sensible, and ready to be put to productive use from the very first time they appear. No half-baked ad hoc stuff.