{"id":84643,"date":"2026-06-18T05:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84643"},"modified":"2026-06-18T07:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:36:42","slug":"vampire-survivors-developer-reviewing-fortnite-crossover-plans-after-epic-details-unreal-engine-6-ai-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84643","title":{"rendered":"Vampire Survivors Developer &#8216;Reviewing&#8217; Fortnite Crossover Plans, After Epic Details Unreal Engine 6 AI Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/vampire-survivors\">Vampire Survivors<\/a> studio Poncle appears to be reconsidering its plans for a lucrative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a> crossover, after Epic Games this week confirmed it now uses generative AI tools within the battle royale&#8217;s art and design process. <\/p>\n<p>A recent behind-the-scenes video published by Epic Games <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/fortnite-maker-confirms-how-it-uses-generative-ai-to-help-create-concept-art-and-designs-for-new-skins\">showed how the company now uses generative AI prompts to adjust hand-drawn designs for Fortnite character skins and art assets used in the game&#8217;s concept phase<\/a>. The video showed AI being used to turn sketches into more detailed designs, or experiment with alternative versions of artwork (turning a daylight scene into night-time, for example). The video also showed AI introducing errors or unwanted additions which also needed to be corrected by hand \u2014 something <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/fortnite-artist-responds-as-fans-claim-game-now-includes-examples-of-blatant-ai-artwork-including-a-nine-toed-character-in-a-hammock\">Fortnite players previously suggested may have resulted in odd-looking assets making their way into the live game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Epic Games continued its focus on generative AI usage in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/with-unreal-6-epic-hopes-sharing-skins-between-games-will-save-gaming\">yesterday&#8217;s State of Unreal livestream<\/a>, where it showed a glimpse at upcoming Unreal Engine 6 capabilities. The company demoed how its updated engine will broadly incorporate generative AI tools to iterate and build upon 3D environments.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"fortnite-x-star-wars-new-games-and-rewards\" data-value=\"fortnite-x-star-wars-new-games-and-rewards\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;For UE6, we see LLMs, generative AI models, and tools like Claude and Codex playing a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vampire Survivors studio Poncle appears to be reconsidering its plans for a lucrative Fortnite crossover, after Epic Games this week confirmed it now uses generative AI tools within the battle royale&#8217;s art and design process. A recent behind-the-scenes video published by Epic Games showed how the company now uses generative AI prompts to adjust hand-drawn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":84645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84647,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84643\/revisions\/84647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}