Participants can compete in teams of up to five humans alongside unlimited AI agents to build a playable game using Unreal Engine or the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN). Epic Games is offering up to Rs 47 lakh ($50,000) in grants and cash prizes for developers who create a video game using artificial intelligence (AI) and itss in-house engines. The opportunity is part of the newly announced 2026 AI Mega Jam, a four-day competition kicking off on November 12.
Participants are allowed to use and integrate any AI tool into their workflow, ranging from asset generation to coding. The four-day jam from November 12-15 is open to remote participants. An in-person event will take place in San Francisco on November 14 and 15, featuring teams from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and other companies.
“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 Games said . Earlier this month, Sweeney in a social media post, announced that developers were being moved to “retool maximum AI acceleration”.
The event is part of the ‘huge AI pivot’ that Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has previously talked about.
Our job, as the provider of tools and technology to much of the industry, is to design for the present that is and the future that will soon be. Personally, I’m optimistic about it and see it as empowering for creators,” he added when accused of not reading the room. “Much of the room wants it to be 2016 again, but it’s not.
