Six months to swap Unreal out from under Em-8ER

Most "AI in games" means an assistant bolted onto an engine that was never designed for it. Grummz went the other way: six months spent replacing Unreal underneath a game that already existed, with an engine built AI-first from day one. It is called Kun-Zhi, and he says it will be released to the public, backers first.

The headline number is 93× faster. Treat that as his claim rather than a benchmark — the post gives no methodology — but the reasoning is the interesting part: the speedup comes from an engine shaped around the model instead of one that fights it.

He is blunt that this is "not a toy one-shotted overnight." The update list — character animation, collision meshes, outfit swapping, networked players, pilotable vehicles — reads like a production engine's changelog, which is exactly the point he is making.