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Unreal Engine

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Chris Williamson Tom Bilyeu
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3 creators use or recommend it

▲ 1 active in the last 90 days

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Last discussed Oct 30, 2026

A powerful 3D game engine developed by Epic Games, used for creating video games, simulations, and other interactive content.

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Chris Williamson and Tom Bilyeu use or recommend Unreal Engine. See what else they have in common.

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What creators think

Chris Hawkes uses Unreal Engine for 3D VR game development, noting that support for that combination is limited, while Tom Bilyeu mentions exploring it as part of a personal learning project. Several other creators — including Ben Thompson, Peter Diamandis, and Chris Williamson — reference it in passing as a well-known tool for building virtual worlds, but without recommending it. No one here argues it's the right choice for most developers — Hawkes's framing is closer to a personal challenge than a ringing endorsement.

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Tom Bilyeu
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Used for: Game development and coding environment for Impact Theory's gaming division

"We code inside of Unreal Engine. If the AI doesn't understand where Unreal Engine breaks, it's going to give you garbage."

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"Unreal Engine 6 comes out in a couple years. That's going to be an AI-first thing where you can just plug in with AI. It will be a language that's ..."

"Unreal Engine released the MCP server, whatever connected. It is a big deal. It's not quite yet, but yes, that is a sign that they're going in the ..."

"And we rendered the entire scene in Unreal Engine 5 and then did set dressing. So we had live elements, dirt on the floor and cactuses"

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"I chose one of the more difficult tasks to take on in my opinion when it comes to game development by going both, you know, 3D and also VR and then doing Unreal Engine with VR, which there just isn't a ton of support."

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Emad Mostaque
mentioned

"Someone had a loop where they created a version of Dark Souls... And it's just Opus 5.5 hooked up to Unreal Engine."

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John Coogan
mentioned
vs: Used as a licensing model analogy for World Labs' potential business model

"You could see companies potentially license that technology like people pay Unreal Engine to host or develop their games on top of."

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"We have Unreal Engine. You can do some simulation stuff. I can play a video game and watch a robot walk around. It looks like you could learn from ..."

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"From a Blender scene to then an Unreal Engine 5 walkable experience. So, everything becomes translatable."

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Alex Mashrabov
mentioned
vs: Used as an analogy alongside Unity to explain AI video models as modern rende...

"The way to think about video models today — it's just a modern rendering engine. Think about this as like Unreal Engine or Unity but just with different types of inputs."

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Peter Diamandis
mentioned
Used for: Building virtual worlds for video games vs: Compared to GPT-6 Astra which built Manhattan in a week vs. what would take a...

"People may have heard something called the Unreal Engine. It's been used to build virtual worlds for years in games like Fortnite and most modern video games."

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Riley Brown
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"GPT-6 is a baller at using Blender, Unreal Engine, Unity. It is great at creating digital 3D assets."

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Ben Thompson
mentioned
Used for: Cross-platform game development during the HD console generation Praised: Enabled Epic Games to grow significantly; allowed developers to offload techn...

"The actual game was offloaded to engines — game engines — like obviously Unreal, where Epic got super big with the Unreal Engine."

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"This is how Epic got super big with the Unreal Engine. You no longer had to write the game at a low level — what a game company did was actually de..."

TBPN
mentioned
Used for: Robot simulation and training

"I gave you let's call it Unreal Engine and I have a one-to-one representation of a particular robot"

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"there's not enough variation in some Unreal Engine environment that you build a kinematic model in"

My First Million
mentioned

"It renders it all using Unreal Engine. It creates like an AI video of like a home walkthrough for you"

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Shaan Puri
mentioned

"It renders it all using Unreal Engine. It renders the whole thing in front of you."

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"So, you've created with the Unreal Engine essentially a first-person shooter of your office."

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