{"id":91157,"date":"2026-10-14T10:33:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91157"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:39:16","slug":"we-vibe-coded-a-new-epic-games-launcher-epics-new-store-app-was-built-using-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91157","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Vibe Coded a New Epic Games Launcher\u2019 \u2013 Epic\u2019s New Store App Was Built Using AI"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Epic has revealed a newly refreshed version of the Epic Games Launcher<\/a>, its Steam-like platform that provides access to the Epic Games Store, your games library, social features, and a developer\u2019s hub. In keeping with the company\u2019s interest in and push for AI-assisted development<\/a>, this new version of the launcher has been created using generative artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n

\u201cProgramming is hard,\u201d wrote Epic in a new blog post<\/a>. \u201cSo, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher that\u2019s way faster and more responsive than the current one, and has a new look.\u201d<\/p>\n

The term \u201cvibe coding\u201d is often used in a joke context to describe code developed entirely through AI prompts, rather than actual coding expertise. It\u2019s interesting, then, to see Epic use the term in an announcement for its own product. But just how has the company approached the build of its new app?<\/p>\n

During an interview with IGN, vice president and general manager of Epic Games Store Martin Keely discussed how the technology has been used. \u201cWe have used AI as a tool as part of our development process,\u201d he said. \u201cIt’s obviously an issue that’s of high visibility at the moment across the industry, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Epic has revealed a newly refreshed version of the Epic Games Launcher, its Steam-like platform that provides access to the Epic Games Store, your games library, social features, and a developer\u2019s hub. In keeping with the company\u2019s interest in and push for AI-assisted development, this new version of the launcher has been created using generative…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":91159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91157","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\/91157"}],"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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91161,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91157\/revisions\/91161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}