ZeroYaHero

This was mostly a good excuse to mess with VSCode extensions and CUE4Parse. Two things I have been curious about for some time but never got my hands dirty (until now).

Verse/UEFN VSCode extension that uses CUE4Parse for icon previews of reflected Fortnite items. Something I made for my own use case, but I do intend to make it public (tbf it is relatively trivial to make yourself). Thought I'd share regardless as it was fun to put together!

Maybe someone has a counter example, but what currently prevents the following from happening in the near future: - Spending time iterating on a game idea - You publish to discover - Someone with AI copies your map to the point where its nearly identical (like the quoted tweet), but changes the thumbnail/title/trailer - Their map gets surfaced in discover tabs before yours does and steals your chances of success

I have been having conversations with creators for a few weeks now, and I think its time to seriously entertain the idea of 1 publish a week limit (or even month) and more aggressive duplicate/copy detection. Even for the creators that have embraced AI assisted workflows: we are all looking at competing with AI systems that have no humans in the loop except for someone prompting an agent to "copy x map and publish". These aren't normal times you can't just use normal solutions.