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Fortnite developers can make AI characters now — just don’t try to date them
- Jay Peters
- April 20, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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Following last year's AI-powered Darth Vader in Fortnite that swore in a recreation of James Earl Jones' voice, Epic Games is now letting Fortnite creators experiment with a new "conversations" tool to create AI-powered characters that players can talk and interact with.
"Instead of authoring dialogue trees for characters in your islands, conversations transforms an NPC into an AI-powered character capable of unscripted dialogue and interactions with players, like a quest giver or narrator," Epic says. "You define who the character is with simple prompts-how they think, what they know, and how they behave-and then select a voice that matche …
Originally published at The Verge