Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney’s all-in on shoveling AI “vibe coding” into game dev has reached a new embarrassing low today, somehow.

Following up on last week’s Epic Games Store redesign that was “vibe-coded” and slopped together , the Fortnite publisher is now asking people to “team with up to four other humans and unlimited agents to build a playable game in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), and compete for cash prizes.”

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This is not a joke post. It feels like ragebait, but it appears to be genuine.

So, basically, not only is Epic all-in on using AI to make games for them, they are now hoping that other people will do it in their stead for some comparatively measly prizes ($7,500 each for top placement in three different categories).

“Jam online from anywhere, with your local game dev community, or in person in San Francisco at Digital Jungle, where you’ll build alongside teams from Anthropic, Google, Meshy, OpenAI, SpaceXSI, and more,” Epic said.…