Partner perks
Every registered jammer can use these during the jam. Using them is optional and doesn’t affect judging. We’ll email codes and claim links on November 10 to everyone who has joined the jam on itch.io so join now and check your spam folder if you don’t see it.
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Anthropic: $25 in Claude API credits for use on platform.claude.com. Create a free account at platform.claude.com before kickoff. Claim link sent by email November 10. Credits last 90 days from when you claim them.
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SpaceXSI: $50 in credits to use across Cursor and Grok Bot. Claim link sent by email November 10. Claim by November 15. Credits last 7 days from when you claim them.
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Diversion: One month of cloud version control free. Code sent by email November 10. Redeem by November 22, 2026. app.diversion.dev
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fal: $30 in fal credits for your personal fal account. Code sent by email November 10. Claim by November 30.
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Hyper3D: A Rodin Business subscription, including 208 credits. Code sent by email November 10. Redeem at hyper3d.ai by November 16. The benefits expire November 20.
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Meshy: One free month of Meshy Pro with 1,000 credits you can use through the Meshy web app, the API, or both. Sign up for a new Meshy account through this link by November 17. A credit card is required to redeem your free month. Your subscription will renew automatically after the month ends unless canceled.
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NetApp + AWS: Finished your jam game? After the jam closes on November 15, the first 25 Unreal Engine jammers to email aaron.tunnell@netapp.com get a free technical session with NetApp and AWS experts to deploy the AWS Game Development Toolkit and speed up Unreal Engine Horde build pipelines on AWS. 25 slots, first come, first served. Learn more at linktr.ee/netappgames.
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PBRgen: Free access to PBRgen, including PBRgen credits for every registered jammer, valid November 7 to 15, 2026. Need more? Additional credits are available on request. Sign-up link sent by email November 10. Get started with the PBRgen user guide.
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Reallusion: Free iClone PERSONAL, a fully featured animation tool with up to 30 exports for first-time users. Download at reallusion.com/iclone/download.html. Need help? Email support@reallusion.com.
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Rokoko: One month of Rokoko Basic free. Register through the link in your November 10 email. When the jam starts, Rokoko will email you a voucher link. Create a Rokoko account and sign in to apply it.
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Tripo: 3,000 free credits plus Tripo Pro access, valid November 11–17, 2026 (PST). Visit worlds.tripo3d.ai/epicaimegajam2026promotion, enter your name and email address to receive a unique code, then redeem it at tripo3d.ai under Upgrade > Redeem Code. Redeem by November 16. For redemption issues or unavailable codes, contact zhangzhou@vastai3d.com (CC: aiko@vastai3d.com).
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WeLoveIndies: Free sound and music for non-commercial use. Create a free account at EPIC MEGA JAM | 2026 | We Love Indies. If you release your game commercially later, you’ll need a commercial license for those assets.
Partner prizes
Partner prizes are one per team unless marked “one per team member.” Partners deliver their prizes directly to winners after the jam. Some physical prizes have shipping restrictions. See the Official Rules for details.
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Best Overall, Unreal Engine: Reallusion iClone 8 licenses (1st place, one per team member) plus one Character Creator 5 license (1st place). WeLoveIndies Sound Pack of Choice (one per team member): Large (1st), Medium (2nd), Small (3rd). Rokoko Headcam and Smartgloves (1st place).
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Best Overall, UEFN: Reallusion iClone 8 licenses (1st place, one per team member).
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Best Student Project: Reallusion iClone 8 licenses (1st place, one per team member). Rokoko Smartgloves (1st place).
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Best Team: WeLoveIndies Sound Pack of Choice and one-year PRO subscription (one per team member). Rokoko Smartgloves.
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Solo Driver: Rokoko Headcam and Smartgloves. fal $1,000 in fal credits plus a one-on-one AMA with fal engineers. Intel Panther Lake laptop.
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Render Royalty: NetApp retro gaming collection (physical prize US only). PBRgen $500 cash. Rokoko Headcam and Smartgloves. fal $1,000 in fal credits plus a one-on-one AMA with fal engineers.
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Render Royalty: NVIDIA RTX Award (Unreal Engine): One GeForce RTX 5090 for the best Render Royalty entry built in Unreal Engine that uses at least one feature from NVIDIA RTX (such as RTX Mega Geometry, RTX Direct Illumination, RTX Indirect Illumination, or RTX Path Tracing, which are made available via the NVIDIA RTX Branch of Unreal Engine (NvRTX)), NVIDIA DLSS, or NVIDIA ACE. Answer the NVIDIA questions when you submit.
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Glass Box: ASUS ROG Ally handheld, powered by AMD (one per team member).
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Walkie-Talkie: ASUS ROG Ally handheld, powered by AMD (one per team member).
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All categories: Hyper3D one-year Rodin Business membership for every winning team (one per team member). Plus a $10,000 cash pool, split equally among the winning teams that used Rodin in their entries. Be sure to list Rodin in the “Tools you used” field when you submit.
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All categories: Tripo one month of Tripo Max (one per team member) or a shared Tripo Teams plan (up to five seats) for every winning team. Your team chooses.
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All categories: Meshy one-year Meshy Pro subscription for every winner (one per team member).
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Development Continuation Grants: Fab credit for the top three Unreal Engine and UEFN entries: $1,000 (1st), $500 (2nd), and $250 (3rd), credited to each winning team’s team lead. Each grant team also gets one month of Tripo Teams, with up to five seats.
Meet the partners
Claude
Anthropic is a frontier AI company whose mission is to steer the trajectory of AI to advance human progress. We are best known for building Claude, the intelligence platform trusted by millions of people and businesses worldwide. Every registered jammer gets $25 in Claude API credits to put Claude to work on your game. Our team will also be at Digital Jungle in San Francisco on Nov 14 and 15, so come say hi! claude.com
Google
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Through products and platforms like Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Google Cloud, Chrome and YouTube, Google plays a meaningful role in the daily lives of billions of people and has become one of the most widely-known companies in the world. Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. cloud.google.com
Meshy
Meshy is an AI 3D creation platform that takes you from idea to 3D asset in minutes. Create, texture, rig and animate models from text, images or a simple chat with our 3D Agent, then bring them straight into Unreal Engine. Spend less time on asset production and more time building the game you came to make. meshy.ai
SpaceXSI
At SpaceXSI, we build AI to understand the universe. We’re excited about what AI makes possible for game makers, from Grok building an open world city game to Cursor and Grok Bot helping small teams ship faster. We’re proud to support the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam and can’t wait to see what you build in Unreal Engine and UEFN!
AMD
Our passion to make the world’s most advanced processors, graphics and software is matched only by the passion of the gamers who use them. That’s why AMD is the only company with products used across PCs, handhelds, and consoles. For gamers, that means AMD powers devices that deliver an incredible experience, whether you’re chasing frame rates on a high-end rig, gaming on the go with a handheld, or settling in on the couch with a console, no matter how demanding the title or what platform you play on. amd.com
Diversion
Diversion is cloud-native version control built for game devs and AI workflows. Stay in sync, handle huge assets, and keep your MegaJam project safe. Work right inside Unreal Engine with our free plugin on Fab. Need help? See our docs or join our Discord. Happy jamming! diversion.dev
fal
fal brings generative AI into your creative toolkit, with image, video, audio, and 3D models accessible through one API. Explore visual concepts, generate assets, and experiment with new ideas as you build your game. Trusted by over 2.5 million developers and leading companies, fal offers the fastest inference engine for diffusion models, on-demand serverless GPUs, and dedicated compute clusters for frontier research. We’re excited to support Epic AI MegaJam creators and we can’t wait to see what you make! fal.ai
Hyper3D
Hyper3D is the industry leader in pioneering 3D Generative AI. Built on cutting-edge research with multiple SIGGRAPH Best Paper nominations and a Best Paper award, our platform aims to deliver production-ready assets with unparalleled editability. Today, we’re trusted by millions of users and thousands of game studios. Our core capability—Image/Text to 3D—focuses on controllability, evolving us into the world’s first true 3D GenAI editing platform. Creators can edit any model with precision via features like smart low-poly topology, local text-prompt edits, and recursive part-decomposition. hyper3d.ai
Intel
Intel is a pioneer of modern computing and a global leader in semiconductor innovation, engineering the foundation behind today’s most immersive gaming experiences. From desktops and laptops to handheld devices, Intel powers responsive gameplay, rich visuals, and AI-enhanced realism across every way gamers play. With decades of experience and one of the broadest install bases in the world across millions of PCs, Intel brings proven scale and deep expertise to gaming. intel.com
NetApp
You built the game. Now level up your studio. The Render Royalty winning team will score a retro gaming collection packed with legendary consoles and games from Nintendo, PlayStation, and more, celebrating some of the hardware and titles that helped define gaming. Then we’ll help you look forward. The first 25 Unreal Engine jammers to reach out after the jam get a free session with AWS and NetApp technical experts to deploy the AWS Game Development Toolkit and speed up Horde build pipelines on AWS. Game history for your shelf. Modern infrastructure for your next game. linktr.ee/netappgames
NVIDIA
NVIDIA supports Unreal Engine 5 with key NVIDIA RTX™ technologies. This powerful combination helps developers of all levels get started and propel their games and experiences to the next level. Explore advanced rendering with the NVIDIA RTX Branch of Unreal Engine (NvRTX), boost frame rates while delivering crisp high-quality images with NVIDIA DLSS, and bring game characters to life with NVIDIA ACE. Build with GeForce RTX GPUs and get started with plugins, samples, and developer resources. We can’t wait to see what games you build with NVIDIA RTX! developer.nvidia.com
PBRgen
PBRgen is an AI tool that generates seamless, tileable PBR materials from a text prompt or reference image. Every material comes with tweakable maps (albedo, normal, roughness, metallic, height, AO, and more) that drop straight into Unreal Engine and UEFN. All 2026 Epic AI MegaJam participants get free access to PBRgen for the duration of the jam, so your team can build the look of your game as fast as you can describe it. pbrgen.com
Reallusion
Reallusion is proud to partner with Epic Games for the Epic AI MegaJam! Empowering creators to build next-level games in Unreal Engine and UEFN, Reallusion brings industry-leading character creation and animation software to jammers worldwide. We are sponsoring top winners with perpetual licenses for iClone 8 and Character Creator 5 (CC5). Plus, explore cutting-edge AI character workflows with our new CC Wrap tool, designed to seamlessly import, optimize, rig, and animate any AI-generated 3D model for real-time animation. Unleash your creativity and bring digital humans to life! reallusion.com
Rokoko
Rokoko provides a complete, all-in-one character animation ecosystem built for indie developers and studios. From browser-based AI video capture and text-to-motion prompting to full-body motion capture suits, hand tracking, and facial capture, Rokoko gives you every tool needed to bring characters to life. Record natural performances anywhere and stream production-ready animation directly into Unreal Engine—no optical studio or multi-camera setups required. rokoko.com
Tripo
AI 3D model generation for Unreal Engine and UEFN. Generate game-ready 3D models from text or images in seconds, with clean quad topology and adjustable polygon counts (up to 25K quads). Refine your assets with built-in post-processing tools, including smart UV mapping, up to 8K textures, auto-rigging, and animation. Export directly into your game development workflow with minimal manual cleanup. Every jammer gets 3,000 free credits and Tripo Pro access during the Epic AI MegaJam. tripo3d.ai
WeLoveIndies
On WeLoveIndies, you can use our sound and music for free for your pitches, demos, and non-commercial projects—and get commercial licenses, subscriptions, and game-ready sound packs. We are not a reseller, but the team behind our work—so we would love to contribute to your projects with original works as well. WeLoveIndies is a collaborative initiative between Europe’s largest game audio studio, Dynamedion, and one of the world’s leading sound design companies, BOOM Library. Our mission is simple: to make high-quality sound accessible to everyone. weloveindies.com
It is going to be hard to compete without help from AI as it is literally an “AI” Jam.