{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "MythicLemon — new posts & data", "home_page_url": "https://mythiclemon.com/", "feed_url": "https://mythiclemon.com/feed.json", "description": "New articles, marketplace data and tool releases for Unreal Engine developers.", "language": "en", "items": [ { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/keystone-vs-keystone-lite", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/keystone-vs-keystone-lite", "title": "Keystone vs Keystone Lite: Which UE5 Building Generator to Use", "summary": "Keystone vs Keystone Lite for UE5: a grounded capability table and pick-by-need verdict. Both share the deterministic core and Nanite baking; the full edition adds AI input, castles, Kit Mode and JSON.", "date_published": "2026-06-26T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "comparison" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/procedural-building-generator-ue5-keystone", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/procedural-building-generator-ue5-keystone", "title": "Procedural Building Generator for UE5: A Keystone Tutorial", "summary": "Learn how to generate game-ready 3D buildings in UE5 with Keystone: presets, sketch, floor plans, text and Kit Mode, a live preview, and baking to Nanite static meshes.", "date_published": "2026-06-26T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "tutorial" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/free-building-generator-ue5-keystone-lite", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/free-building-generator-ue5-keystone-lite", "title": "Keystone Lite: A Free Modular Building Generator for UE5", "summary": "Keystone Lite is a free modular building generator for UE5: three presets, a 2D sketch canvas, parametric editing, and Nanite baking — no AI, no subscription, no credits.", "date_published": "2026-06-25T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/ue5-generate-buildings-from-text-and-floor-plans-ai", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/ue5-generate-buildings-from-text-and-floor-plans-ai", "title": "Generate UE5 Buildings from Text & Floor Plans with Keystone AI", "summary": "Use Keystone's optional AI inputs to draft UE5 buildings from text or a floor-plan image. Covers BYO-key setup, where the key lives, and why the geometry is still deterministic.", "date_published": "2026-06-25T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "tutorial" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/add-save-system-ue5-without-code", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/add-save-system-ue5-without-code", "title": "How to Add a Save System to a UE5 Game Without Code (JustSave)", "summary": "Add saving and loading to a UE5 game without writing serialization code. This JustSave tutorial covers the Saveable Component, SaveGame properties, and Save/Load.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "tutorial" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/advanced-locomotion-system-teardown", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/advanced-locomotion-system-teardown", "title": "The Only Free Asset in the Top Two of 80,278 — and Why It Made Nothing", "summary": "ALS proves that free is a distribution channel, not a discount. We trace how a free, open, demonstrable movement system turned its users into distributors…", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/ai-game-recipes", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/ai-game-recipes", "title": "A Video Game Is a Recipe of ~45 Ingredients. AI Has Solved Some Kitchens and Barely Touched Others.", "summary": "We broke games into ~45 reusable ingredients and scored each by how much AI can build today, then ranked 23 genres. AI has near-solved artefact generation…", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "report" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/among-us-teardown", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/among-us-teardown", "title": "Same Game, Two Years Apart: Why Among Us Sat Dead, Then Drew 425,000 Reviews", "summary": "Among Us is the textbook case of timing, seeding and luck. The same frictionless social game sat dead for two years, then a pandemic and a streamer cascade selected it from 124 near-identical rivals.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/balatro-teardown", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/balatro-teardown", "title": "He Expected to Sell 10 Copies. Balatro Out-Reviewed Every Deckbuilder Before It.", "summary": "Balatro beat Slay the Spire and Inscryption on review count from a one-person studio. We trace the win to a fused recipe — a universally known base plus one…", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/best-game-genre-for-solo-ai-developer", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/best-game-genre-for-solo-ai-developer", "title": "The Best Game Genre for a Solo AI-Assisted Developer in 2026", "summary": "The best game genres for a solo AI-assisted developer in 2026, ranked by our buildability model: five low-difficulty, high-demand picks plus the deckbuilding contrarian.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "comparison" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/build-a-visual-novel-with-ai", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/build-a-visual-novel-with-ai", "title": "Building a Visual Novel With AI: The Most Buildable Commercial Game", "summary": "The visual novel scores 1.80 in our editorial buildability model — the most AI-buildable commercial game. Here's why, and what the one remaining human job actually is.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/can-ai-build-a-video-game", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/can-ai-build-a-video-game", "title": "Can AI Build a Video Game? A Feature-by-Feature Reality Check", "summary": "Can AI build a video game? We decompose games into 45 ingredients across 5 kitchens, rate what AI tooling does today, and rank 30 genres by buildability.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/can-ai-code-game-systems", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/can-ai-code-game-systems", "title": "Can AI Code Gameplay Systems? From Inventory to the Netcode Frontier", "summary": "How far can AI code assistants get with gameplay systems? Our buildability model rates the code kitchen 1-5, from near-automated inventory to authoritative netcode AI can't touch.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/can-ai-make-game-art", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/can-ai-make-game-art", "title": "Can AI Make Game Art? What's Solved, What's Assisted, and What Still Needs an Artist", "summary": "Can AI make game art? Our buildability model scores the art kitchen at 2.57. 2D backgrounds, concept art and PBR textures are near-solved; game-ready 3D…", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/can-ai-make-game-music-voice-sound", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/can-ai-make-game-music-voice-sound", "title": "Can AI Make Game Music, Voice, and Sound Effects?", "summary": "Can AI make game audio? In our buildability model audio scores 2.2 — the most automatable kitchen. VO is the single most-automated craft; only adaptive music resists.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/can-ai-write-a-game-narrative", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/can-ai-write-a-game-narrative", "title": "Can AI Write a Game? Dialogue, Quests, and the Level-Design Wall", "summary": "Our buildability model scores game narrative 2.78: AI nails flavour text and branching dialogue, struggles with quests, and hits a wall at level and puzzle design.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/easiest-games-to-build-with-ai", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/easiest-games-to-build-with-ai", "title": "The Easiest Games to Build with AI in 2026 (and Why That's a Trap)", "summary": "The six easiest game genres to build with AI in 2026, scored by our buildability model — visual novel to farming sim. Why easy alone is no moat, and where demand makes it one.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/four-things-ai-cant-build-in-games", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/four-things-ai-cant-build-in-games", "title": "The Four Things AI Still Can't Build in a Game", "summary": "AI now builds art, audio and content for almost nothing. Four things resist it: game feel, real-time netcode, level/puzzle design, and the 'is it fun?' loop. Here's why.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/how-to-reverse-engineer-a-viral-hit", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/how-to-reverse-engineer-a-viral-hit", "title": "The 0.03% Problem: How to Reverse-Engineer a Viral Hit Without Fooling Yourself", "summary": "Most explanations of why something went viral are confident stories that would fit a flop just as well. Here is a disciplined method for telling genuine…", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "report" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/lethal-company-teardown", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/lethal-company-teardown", "title": "Built to Be Filmed: How a $9.99 Co-op Horror Out-Reviewed Starfield", "summary": "Lethal Company turned four friends, proximity voice chat and horror into an inexhaustible supply of shareable clips. We separate the clip-factory artifact…", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/the-demand-inversion", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/the-demand-inversion", "title": "The Demand Inversion: 56.9% of Fab Sells One Thing, Buyers Are Asking About Another", "summary": "Sellers crowd Fab's biggest category — 3D models, 56.9% of the catalogue — while buyer questions concentrate in the thinnest categories.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "report" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/the-ue5-migration-backlog", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/the-ue5-migration-backlog", "title": "93.2% of New Unreal Assets Are UE5. Only 53.3% of the Catalogue Is. That Gap Is a To-Do List.", "summary": "93.2% of new Unreal asset releases target UE5, but only 53.3% of the version-tagged catalogue does — leaving 46.7% on UE4.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/tiny-swords-teardown", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/tiny-swords-teardown", "title": "Six for Six: How a Free Asset Maker Beat a Lottery No One Else Could", "summary": "Pixel Frog's free, permissively licensed packs became default starter art for tutorials and game jams. We separate the necessary floor (free) from the real…", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/two-shapes-of-a-hit", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/two-shapes-of-a-hit", "title": "Eight Breakout Hits, Two Shapes: Only One Is Buildable on Purpose", "summary": "Across eight teardowns, breakout hits fall into two families: viral spikes that are mostly a lottery, and compounding defaults won over years.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "report" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/ue4-to-ue5-adoption-curve-predicts-ue6", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/ue4-to-ue5-adoption-curve-predicts-ue6", "title": "What the UE4 to UE5 adoption curve tells us about UE6", "summary": "A data-driven look at the UE4 to UE5 marketplace adoption curve - 3% noise pre-launch, 50% of new releases by late 2023, 90%+ by 2026 - and what its S-curve…", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "report" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/ue5-modular-building-kit-mode-keystone", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/ue5-modular-building-kit-mode-keystone", "title": "Keystone Kit Mode: Tile Your Own Modular Meshes in UE5", "summary": "Learn Keystone Kit Mode in UE5: tile your own modular meshes onto walls, floors, ceilings and interior walls, choose Tile vs Stretch, and bake to Nanite.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "tutorial" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/ultra-dynamic-sky-teardown", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/ultra-dynamic-sky-teardown", "title": "Number One of 80,278: How One Drop-In Sky Beat Free Rivals for a Decade", "summary": "Ultra Dynamic Sky tops an 80,000-item marketplace at a mid price, beating a free rival and a cheaper one. We show why this is a compounding-default hit, not…", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/untitled-ui-teardown", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/untitled-ui-teardown", "title": "Give Away the Product, Sell the System: The Free Kit Behind a $139 Best-Seller", "summary": "Untitled UI pairs a genuinely complete free Figma kit with a high-priced paid system. We show how the free tier works as a distribution funnel that embeds…", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/vampire-survivors-teardown", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/vampire-survivors-teardown", "title": "One in 7,000: How Vampire Survivors Won by Letting You Barely Play", "summary": "Vampire Survivors turned one input and a near-zero price into one of the best-reviewed cheap games ever made. We separate the reproducible loop from the…", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/which-game-genres-can-ai-build-2026", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/which-game-genres-can-ai-build-2026", "title": "Which Game Genres Can AI Actually Build in 2026?", "summary": "A 30-genre AI-buildability ranking for 2026. Visual novels score 1.80, battle royale 4.17. See why content-bound genres collapse and feel- and netcode-bound ones don't.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/data/insights/deckbuilding-demand-meets-hardest-core", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/data/insights/deckbuilding-demand-meets-hardest-core", "title": "Deckbuilding is the fastest-growing genre — and one of the hardest to build well", "summary": "64% of deckbuilders were released since 2023 — the highest momentum in the catalogue — yet the genre scores 3.18 to build, because its soul is balance.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "insight" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/data/insights/four-things-ai-cant-build", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/data/insights/four-things-ai-cant-build", "title": "Four things AI still can't build in a game", "summary": "Of 45 game ingredients, the ones AI can't lift cluster in one place: game feel, real-time netcode, level/puzzle/encounter design, and balance.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "insight" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/data/insights/the-opportunity-window", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/data/insights/the-opportunity-window", "title": "Five genres are AI-easy and still growing", "summary": "Filter for build difficulty ≤ 2.7, 1,000+ titles of proven demand and 40%+ released since 2023, and five genres survive: interactive fiction, hidden object, clicker, walking sim and card game.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "insight" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/data/insights/visual-novel-the-most-buildable-game", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/data/insights/visual-novel-the-most-buildable-game", "title": "The visual novel is the most buildable commercial game there is", "summary": "The visual novel scores 1.80 on our buildability scale — the lowest of any genre. Not one ingredient in its recipe is above a 2.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "insight" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/data/studies/games-as-recipes-what-ai-can-build", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/data/studies/games-as-recipes-what-ai-can-build", "title": "Games as Recipes: What AI Can (and Can't) Build", "summary": "A video game is a recipe of about 45 reusable ingredients drawn from five kitchens — art, audio, writing, code and feel. AI has near-solved one cluster and barely moved another, so a genre's buildability is decided almost entirely by which kitchen its core ingredients come from. We score all 45 ingredients and all 30 major genres, then join them to real demand.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "study" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/radar/ai-game-buildability-radar-2026-1", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/radar/ai-game-buildability-radar-2026-1", "title": "The AI Game-Buildability Radar", "summary": "Our buildability verdict on 30 major game types: which AI can ship for you, which it can only assist with, and which it barely touches. Graded against a recipe of 45 reusable ingredients and joined to real demand.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "radar" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/radar/reports/ai-era-game-building-playbook-2026", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/radar/reports/ai-era-game-building-playbook-2026", "title": "The AI-Era Game-Building Playbook", "summary": "A practical strategy for solo and small-team developers building with AI in 2026. Built on our 45-ingredient buildability model and the demand signal in the MythicLemon Games Catalogue, it turns one finding into a method: build where AI builds, and bet where it can't.", "date_published": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "playbook" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/build-a-castle-ue5-keystone", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/build-a-castle-ue5-keystone", "title": "Build a Castle in UE5 with Keystone: Multi-Volume Composition", "summary": "Build a castle, towers and a gatehouse in UE5 with Keystone using multi-volume composition: start from the Castle preset, add crenellations, arcs and stylize, then bake.", "date_published": "2026-06-23T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "tutorial" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/build-interactive-charts-ue5-visual-chart-designer-pro", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/build-interactive-charts-ue5-visual-chart-designer-pro", "title": "Build Interactive Charts in UE5 with Visual Chart Designer Pro", "summary": "Design a UE5 chart as an asset in a five-region live-preview editor, feed it CSV, JSON or a DataTable, theme it, and one-click Open in UMG with Visual Chart Designer Pro.", "date_published": "2026-06-23T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "tutorial" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/visual-chart-designer-pro-vs-fast-chart-widgets", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/visual-chart-designer-pro-vs-fast-chart-widgets", "title": "Visual Chart Designer Pro vs Fast Chart Widgets: UE5 Charts", "summary": "Compare Visual Chart Designer Pro and Fast Chart Widgets for UE5 on chart types, data sources, themes, engine support and workflow, with a pick-by-workflow verdict.", "date_published": "2026-06-23T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "comparison" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/which-unreal-engine-version-target-2026-wait-for-ue6", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/which-unreal-engine-version-target-2026-wait-for-ue6", "title": "Which Unreal Engine version should you target in 2026 - and should you wait for UE6?", "summary": "A decision matrix for which Unreal Engine version to target in 2026, what minimum version Fab asset sellers should support, and an honest take on whether to wait for UE6.", "date_published": "2026-06-23T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/floor-plan-to-unreal-archviz-keystone", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/floor-plan-to-unreal-archviz-keystone", "title": "Floor Plan to Unreal Geometry: ArchViz Blockout with Keystone", "summary": "Turn a client floor-plan PNG into editable Unreal geometry with Keystone: calibrate scale, draft the building, review and correct, then bake Nanite static meshes for archviz blockout.", "date_published": "2026-06-22T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "tutorial" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/role-of-ai-in-unreal-engine-5-8-and-beyond", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/role-of-ai-in-unreal-engine-5-8-and-beyond", "title": "The role of AI in Unreal Engine 5.8 and the road to UE6", "summary": "A grounded map of AI in Unreal Engine 5.8 - the neural and ML plugins that ship inside the engine, the experimental in-editor Epic Developer Assistant…", "date_published": "2026-06-22T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/ue5-autosave-checkpoints-slot-thumbnails", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/ue5-autosave-checkpoints-slot-thumbnails", "title": "UE5 Checkpoints, Auto-Save and Save-Slot Thumbnails with JustSave", "summary": "Build a UE5 checkpoint, auto-save and save-slot menu with thumbnails. Learn the general save pattern, then see where JustSave's zero-code save system removes the boilerplate.", "date_published": "2026-06-22T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "tutorial" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/does-unreal-engine-5-8-have-mcp", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/does-unreal-engine-5-8-have-mcp", "title": "Does Unreal Engine 5.8 Support MCP? What Is Really in the Engine", "summary": "Does UE 5.8 ship Model Context Protocol support? A source-grounded answer: no MCP server or client ships; Epic built ToolsetRegistry plus a cloud assistant. Here is what that means for MCP bridges.", "date_published": "2026-06-21T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "article" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/sketch-to-building-ue5-keystone", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/sketch-to-building-ue5-keystone", "title": "Sketch to Building in UE5: Keystone's 2D Canvas Workflow", "summary": "Draw a to-scale building footprint on Keystone's 2D Sketch canvas in real Unreal units, place doors, windows and interior walls, set storeys and roof, then bake. No AI key needed.", "date_published": "2026-06-21T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "tutorial" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/ue5-radar-polar-charts-stats-dashboards", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/ue5-radar-polar-charts-stats-dashboards", "title": "UE5 Radar & PolarArea Charts for Stat Screens (VCD Pro)", "summary": "Design Radar and PolarArea charts for UE5 character stat screens and dashboards in Visual Chart Designer Pro's live asset editor, theme them, and open in UMG.", "date_published": "2026-06-21T00:00:00.000Z", "tags": [ "tutorial" ] }, { "id": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/ue5-sequencer-spline-path-character-cinematic", "url": "https://mythiclemon.com/articles/ue5-sequencer-spline-path-character-cinematic", "title": "UE5 Sequencer: Drive a Character Along a Spline Path for Cinematics", "summary": "Step-by-step UE5 tutorial for making a character follow a spline path in Sequencer. 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