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'Vibe your way to $50K': Epic is challenging devs to build a game in 4 days with AI — and gamers are in…

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  • Epic is kicking off an 'AI MegaJam' next month
  • It's a four-day competition for developers to build a game with AI, giving away $50,000 worth of prizes
  • Coming on top of Epic's recent push of AI in its preview launcher and elsewhere, this has provoked quite the negative reaction from gamers

Epic has announced an 'AI MegaJam' in which you can 'vibe your way to $50K,' a neat little rhyme there, but gamers are predictably bewildered by the idea of this event which rewards game developers using AI.

The MegaJam is a four-day competition that starts on November 12, whereby teams of up to five people can use unlimited AI agents to create a playable game in either Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN).

You can compete and code from anywhere, although there will be teams taking part locally (for two days) in San Francisco at Digital Jungle,...

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