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Ueda Says Gen Atlas Uses AI Only for Admin Work and Will Fix Trailer Framerate

The director has pledged that core game development is human-made and that engineers with Epic will optimize visible choppiness before launch.

A weathered robot head lies in the sand.
Fumito Ueda after receiving a DICE Award for "The Last Guardian" in 2017. [Cropped]
Gen Atlas - The distant outline of a humanoid figure standing on the head of a robot.
Epic Games

Overview

  • Gen Atlas was shown in a trailer at Summer Game Fest and drew strong praise as well as public concern over choppy framerate in several sequences.
  • Fumito Ueda told PC Gamer that generative AI is used only for administrative tasks such as scheduling and meeting summaries and that everything considered game development is made by humans.
  • Ueda acknowledged the trailer’s optimization issues and said genDESIGN expects its engineers, supported by Epic Games, to address performance before the game ships.
  • Epic Games will publish Gen Atlas on PlayStation, Xbox and PC via the Epic Games Store, though no firm release date has been announced and Epic said the launch is "closer than you might think."
  • The disclosure lands inside a wider industry debate over AI use and store rules, with Steam requiring some AI disclosures while the Epic Games Store does not, a difference that has shaped player scrutiny of recent releases.