Kyle - spankysully

I am speechless. Thank you to everyone who's helped make this possible! #TheGameAwards @Lawy3D for the amazing thumbnail! @BigBoomerB & @Razi2M for all the character art. @chloleh for hours and hours of helping play test! Most importantly THANK YOU to all the @FortniteGame players who voted! Thank you @geoffkeighley

@GiusCaminiti You're still caught up on the numbers, it literally doesn't matter. 2, 10, 50, 1000, someone will make the app.

@spankysully It's not about the number. You can say 20 and it would still be a very low number. If we start talking about hundreds of hours then maybe yes, but that's why we use tools built by others, to avoid that development time.

Why are UE devs so worried about Epic not making visual scripting. You can make it in 2hrs with an LLM that's exactly how you like it. And if you "omg ai nooooo" then realize Epic, if they made one is going to contain code written by LLMs as well.

@JerkakamesSlut That's not what I said, or you claimed. "Level design" does not need BPs

@spankysully You think level designers never script any sequences?

@Zenkaiy0 Verse won't change with UE6 updates. So it's not going to break a custom app that simply reads and writes verse syntax.

@spankysully Somebody already did. But without a year of optimizations it will be useless. Any AI out there will lose track of what it was supposed to do after 1 day. And if it's ready by miracle, Epic will not take it into consideration and will break it with every update. Plugin ≠ Support.

@hellobard Get an LLM to read your logs

Listen, I'm pretty excited about the future of Unreal Engine 6 / UEFN and all, but this is effectively the reality of working with it right now. My "Physics Simulator" game can suddenly no longer be opened, so it's effectively dead for absolutely no apparent reason.

@Zenkaiy0 Why do dumb people get so caught up on a random number I put in the tweet. 2hrs, 50hrs, doesn't matter, someone will release visual verse for the bp lovers

@spankysully Lmao, go and tell ComfyUi "You idiots, you could've made this app in 2 hours with AI. Why do you keep updating and working on it?".

@JerkakamesSlut Level design requires ZERO blueprints wtf 😂

@spankysully Dumb take, level design needs easy scripting. Allowing designers to make small interactions this way was the reason behind Kismet (now Blueprints)

@GiusCaminiti Let's not get hung up on a random number I typed in my tweet...

If you’re saying you can build a system as robust as Blueprints in 2 hours with an LLM, then it’s one of two things: either you’ve never used an LLM to generate code, or you’re just ragebaiting. Then what’s even the point of using Unreal Engine at all? “Anyone could ask AI to make them an engine like Unreal Engine in 2 hours.” Please...

@wildartsdevs Didn't even read the tweet... Someone will make an almost 1:1 visual verse system similar to bps or scratch. Epic is releasing bp -> verse conversion tools. It's a non-issue for anyone besides AI haters

@spankysully Lots of devs learned to make games using BPs, especially non-programmers, and there isn't a 1:1 alternative. Relying on LLMs is a good way to lose control over your production (more so when you're a new dev) and to accumulate a time debt when comes time for optim. and debugging.

@MakotoIchinose6 You're very misinformed of the capabilities of the current LLMs, not to mention no one likely needs this for another couple years. No "one try" needed, you're oblivious.

@spankysully Yeah? Fucking good luck trying to get one that's working and production ready in one try

@SpatialBiggs @HiddenEmpireOnX I think something like this, after using Epic's conversion tools, will be all people need. No copy-pasting needed, right click "convert bp to verse" and open in any community made visual scripting program

@HiddenEmpireOnX I've heard they're not going visual but if UE4 to UE5 leap was any indication my hope is they do us a solid and give us good tooling at that point. I at least have hope.

It's a good sign devs are already giving us Blueprint substitute attempts in Verse. I have been growing more confident community could solve this even if Epic stays text only. What I really want long term is a way to copy paste my blueprint text into similar verse logic. It doesn't have to one shot, can be step by step, but has to understand context on both ends from BP copy into the Verse refactor.

@AREGames_Tweets Yeah I won't get mad at a kid for not knowing better

@spankysully Probably should have mentioned that this was almost 10 years ago!

Anyone remember this Roblox game? It was the 2nd game I released and had 11,000,000+ plays before DMCA.. This wiped out my ability as a small creator ability to fund new projects for years Two years after taking down all the unofficial games on Roblox, the creators of SpongeBob release their first game People make Roblox games based on steam games and it’s been proven as a successful way to come up as a game developer on the platform When I told Roblox that I may reach out to them for a brand deal they recommended I’d need a lawyer.. so I didn’t Who thinks this was justified? Should creators be allowed to create unofficial experiences? Or should they just focus on developing unique games.. #Roblox

@MakotoIchinose6 You have to be this stupid to not be capable of reading my tweet. People who want a form of visual coding can vibe code one, once it's coded...guess what....no more context or tokens needed... 🙄

@spankysully You have to be this stupid to not be aware that LLM vibe coding doesn't scale well beyond single context and limited prompt length, and the error debugging that goes with it

@PawnDriver Nodes will never be faster than C++ that logically makes no sense

@spankysully Yeah understand. Here is the thing though. What if every line of code was nodes strung together? And what if every node was contextually available. Not only can we make visual scripting better than blueprints right now, we can make something that runs just as fast as C++

@PawnDriver It's for the ones who are crying about losing blueprints.

@spankysully You can build a system that builds visual scripting languages so you can make entire visual scripting systems while you use a visual scripting system. I think AI has literally broken peoples brains, you can lead a horse to water but you cant force him to drink 1000x...

Submission for #DesignASprite 🥞MEET PANCAKELING🥞 "A stack of fluffy pancakes covered in maple syrup, doing her absolute best to stay together in a battle"🧈 Ability: Heals you when sliding, also when sliding you get covered in syrup and slide further #Fortnite #FortniteArt

@DEVINK_official @AdamsArtFN You won

@Rezus1991 And yet I could build one right now for UEFN... So not so unreleased lol. Verse is live and well in Fortnite

@spankysully It's an unreleased plugin for an unreleased engine. Nothing ezpz here, mate. Pure hypotheticals.

There ya go, ezpz haha

@Epsilon356 Your name basically has em dashes in it 😂

@spankysully Which is like half of why UE5 itself is so goddamn poorly optimized rn. It's like 30% em-dash atp.

@Rezus1991 And yet there will be hundreds made still. By the time the UE devs even need to worry about this LLMs will be much better. Missed the point of my tweet I could care less about them I don't need it

@spankysully Contemporary AI models are generally bad at perceiving, analyzing and suggesting graph node representation of code. If it wasn't the case they wouldn't suggest removing BP completely. Or at least could provide alternative which is confirmed to not be in plans at all.