You Can Now Build UE 5 Games with 0$ Budget

0:00I used AI to create Unreal Engine 3D game from scratch and the best part I paid absolute. Nothing All images, 3D objects and game logic was created only using free AI. I will show. You every step I took, every AI tool that I used. Some actually not working, but some surprisingly work very well.

0:22And. You will be able to repeat it yourself. Well guys, you always ask to create free workflows, but at some point. It was not really possible. We do have free options for image generation, maybe for 3D. Models but when it comes all together, especially working with engine, it was not really working. But things changed and I. Decided to give it one more try and

0:46do deep research. And to my surprise, I made it. For this test, I was choosing. Between Rocket League or Fall Guys and since I already made Rocket League once, I decided to try to build Fall Guys game. Now. It is simple concept, but there's quite interesting mechanics and my goal is to make it

1:04completely playable. Here's the brief,. Here's the starting points that I prepared. Again, I prepared it with Google Gemini, all the images, etc. I'm gonna break. Down all AIs that I used. So where do we start? Of course, from concepting. We need to prepare some images so. We can generate 3D models and then we're gonna put them into the game and do

1:26the game logic. Right. For this stage,. pretty. Confidently I can recommend Gemini. It has not a banana inside it and you can edit and generate images,. Which is absolutely cool. Right. So I took Fall AI as a concept and created my version with these simple. Creatures Okay. So I needed two concept characters and some game props that will

1:48be placed along the levels. Right So there will be a lot of obstacles or something, actually some dynamic obstacles, like some active stuff, etc. that I. Can place around. So here you can see the style that I chose altogether. I created 26 prop concepts and you can see here I. Used only 23 %

2:07for all these images. Of course, there are limits of free usage and if you're gonna go crazy, you'll have. To wait, but I think still weekly limit is crazy big and you can create a lot, a lot, a lot of free images of quite good quality. While it requires good prompting and some iterations. As a next step, we have to generate

2:263D models and here we. Still have this best option as Hunyuan. Specifically, Hunyuan 3D Studio will be actually updated it quite a lot, but. Hunyuan 3D Studio is still available and for free you can get up to 20 generations. I was generating it in Chinese version. You. Can also use global version Chinese version. They just give like a little bit more

2:47free credits somehow. Now you can generate low poly. Mesh You can. also. Unwrap it here and you can do the texturing here. You can see all the objects that I created and since I chose like this simple. Style I pretty much had no issues creating all these objects and I also created them in very optimized way.

3:05I mean, like basically. Process them through low poly. You can see the mesh look pretty, pretty decent. It also might work with highly detailed objects. Although I. Really recommend you to go and create like complex stuff, detailed stuff in parts. I do have. Free workflow for 3D specifically on my channel. If you're struggling creating all that stuff, it's still possible with only

3:27free AI. To get very, very decent results. Video will be somewhere here. Take a look. But if you're developing a game and you want best of the best. 3D AI generator, you definitely need to check out on Tripod. Pretty much in every of my video I use Tripod, specifically the. Newest smart mesh P2 and also the recently added smart UV, which

3:47makes it even better. This is absolute. Best in class low poly 3D model generator. It are also high poly model generation. Basically all you might need on 3D side is. Here and buy my link in the description. You can get extra free credits. Well done. 3D models are sold, images are sold and. We are approaching the difficult parts where before I was always feeling we need to process

4:113D models. We. need. To make animations. We need to put them in the engine, right? I actually decided that I'm going to rig it myself since it's a very,. Very simple character and I do have my hands because for me that took only 10 minutes, but I'm not really good at animation. So here I cannot do that myself and

4:30we need AI to help. The first model that I tried is GPT -6. Luna that is available with Codec CLI. And here's the important thing. I really wanted to work. Through CLI, through my mock workspace. Why CLI? Because it will be easier to access or MCP. All that stuff that I already have installed in my folders, all these connections and you might know I have

4:55my setup in the. Workspace where I have chats, et cetera. And I really wondered like if I can get it in one place, but mainly because of. MCPs Through chats, specifically through online chats that you open in browser and access that AI, it's very difficult to. Connect MCP. And for this task, I actually wanted to

5:14do this animation in Blender. So I started GPT -6 Luna and here. Is the result. It was very disappointing. Even though again, like I still had some limits and could iterate, I. Already felt like this is the wrong direction. So I decided to go like and see like what other AI options I have.

5:32Second in my. List was Gemini 3 .8 Flash. Pi. That's the best model that you can access for free in Google, at least the moment I record this video. And here you can see like the animations did. Well It's definitely better than GPT -6 Luna, but still really not the quality that I expected.

5:50If. We put it in the game, it will look very rough. And to be honest, when I almost lost hope, I remembered that there is OpenCode and. In OpenCode you do have some models for free. And recently, well, I actually discovered that in. OpenCode there are three tier models. Here you can see the complete list. And recently they actually

6:10added DeepSeek version 4. 1. Free It's called right because it's free. But basically it's DeepSeek 4 .1. And many people was actually saying that is pretty, pretty good. So I. Decided to give it a try. And the good thing is that I can actually access through my workspace. So you can actually install for free my Mr.

6:28Mark workspace. There is a support of OpenCode and yeah, it's just right away and access it right here. And that meant that it. Was immediately able to find MCP connector for Blender and for Unreal Engine as well. And that's absolutely cool. I don't. Have to waste time explaining like, look, there's a Blender, install it,

6:47blah, blah, blah. Right. Okay. And we had to do the animation and how freaking. Surprised I was when I got pretty, pretty decent animation. I. Would say actually if Opus 5 .5 did the same way, like it's quite a good result. It is dynamic. It's pretty, pretty cool. You can. See all the animations.

7:02I mean, they are cyclets. They're pretty nice for this character specifically. It really good. And. At this point, I realized this video definitely going to happen here. Also, you can see how this DeepSeek 4 .1 flash compared. To other models. Well, to be honest, I should have looked here first, but the thing is I just didn't knew that it

7:23was available. For free and OpenCode. So you can see it's like intelligent index is 45 and the closest GPT -6 as far as 53. Well GPT -6 Luna, which I started with is 38. That seemed enough like to do the stuff. Anyway, I had still. Plenty to do. Well, I started simple. I created new projects in Unreal Engine with blueprints and there was

7:45some issue. That my MCP servers was not really compatible with OpenCode, but it figured out something. It will be in the report. And by the way, guys, this report. That I show you guys will be on Patreon absolutely for free for you to explore how I did it, what I used, how I prompted step.

8:00By step. And I also going to attach the final game there. The first task was simple just to replace the mannequin. With our characters. And to be honest, it took a while. to. Do the walking animation. It was floating animation. It did jump, but not walking. But okay, like so. After a while, he actually figured it out and I was able

8:22to run around. Right. So I had to prompt it a few times. To make it happen. But the good news, it actually works and look good. Now it's time to create level props. I decided to. Start with this rotating platform. Well, I explained the logic, et cetera, and I only wanted like the top part rotate.

8:40Right. So. You can see the first version and the second version. I was also able to edit the speed, rotating speed, all that stuff. And since it was building in. Blueprints and I know a little bit of Unreal Engine, I was able to tackle it even without AI. And you know what? I started to move

8:54pretty confidently. It was. Definitely not the same experience with Opus 5 .5 when you just say one time and forget it. And when you come back, it's. Definitely done. And with some VFX as part, like whatever, like it will do like the best way. But it was making progress. Really decent. Like I made platforms and then I realized I actually need like one more animation is

9:16a pull down. Animation Like I know one cool trick called a ragdoll. So I asked it to create this whenever we are hits, our body transforms. Into ragdoll. So it's like some natural,. you. Know like animation. And then there will be a stand up animation and you know, like, so we can move around again.

9:33How to say he. Did it like pretty, pretty, pretty nice way, especially this stand up animation looks pretty, pretty natural. Sometimes even rotates first. Like I was really happy with this result. And guys, just think about it. I still haven't spent any dollar on this. And because I. Didn't of course, I hit the limits of DeepSeek at some points, you can see how it looks free

9:55usage exceed, blah, blah,. Blah I don't really know how this limit works. But in around six hours, when I got back, I already had this limits available. Again So of course, this is the downside of using free AI that they are limited in use. And it will definitely take. Longer like depending like on how much tasks you're going to use and how much you're

10:16going to do manually. And I also tried to create. Multiple accounts and open codes, but it doesn't really work because it tracks by IP or something like that. So you'll have to. Do VPN or maybe something else to make sure you have separate limits. So that will be difficult to work around. At least for me, that.

10:33Sounds like a real headache. And again, like this softwares, they're quite smart to detect all of this stuff. So I was waiting for limits to reset and. Continue In a. day,. I was able to build pretty much all the props in the game. You can see plenty of them and then time come to.

10:49Assemble the level. So if I could access Fable 5 .5, I would definitely ask him to build a level and probably he. Could build like something really decent. But to be honest, like every frontier model that I tried, they are not really good like at building like big. Spaces and bring sense there, right? To make it interesting

11:08So I sacrificed two hours,. 39 minutes of my own time building up this level. You're going to see complete time lapse on the screen. And I think. That's pretty realistic, right? It's definitely not difficult, right? I was just placing these props that DeepSeek prepared for. Me around. And again, like if something not works, like you can ask for some additional props, you can ask for some

11:32help for smaller. Task It will be able to do that relatively fast. And the main composition was made by hand. All right, and it's time to. First try it out. Okay, so here you can see the recording like of first ever run and that works. That. Looks good for some of things like I asked DeepSeek like to do some settings in

11:53the game. But man, look at this. This look pretty, pretty cool. It's Unreal Engine game that I made completely for free. And by the way, guys, if you like what I'm. doing. And want to support my channel, the biggest thing I can ask is to like and subscribe this video for YouTube. That is extremely important. So more people can see and I will continue making more great

12:13videos and tutorials for you. Okay, my level works, but it feels. Quite lonely, right? I definitely wanted some NPCs so I can run around together with them, right? To my surprise, that. Was a bit challenging task. And I also figure out some other problems that I have in my game. For example, there was no. Checkpoints the colliders was

12:34a bit wrong, etc. I do have some experience in Unreal Engine and I was able to see these. Issues through debug modes and just addressing DeepSeek that we need to change there and there. Again, most of this was fixed with AI, but. I had to guide it right. I would say if I didn't know the source of the problem, I probably had to

12:53spend way more time with. DeepSeek figuring this out. Anyway, later I fixed some bugs, set the checkpoint so like you're not restarted at the very beginning. And so forth. Hit the button, go to sleep, wake up and did the final iteration guys. And here we go, we can. Actually play this game. Just look at this.

13:12Whoa, let's go boys. I really like this mood, the. Ragdoll animation. Well, this actually looks even better than in original Fall Guys. I mean like, yeah,. you. See like this one. Wow, wow, wow. Pretty good, pretty good. Nice. The NPCs are pretty crazy, okay, like so definitely. Can put more intelligence. You can see like

13:32how they're always getting hit. Anyway, like, all right, but they work. It's fine. Okay, let's. Go Well, to my surprise, experiments was successful and I was able to make the label game and the. Coolest thing everyone can do the same right now. Now let's do the totals. For 3D model, I created 26. Models spent $0, right? Usually I show like big, big numbers like an API, it could

13:59cost like this. Much this much. All right, so yeah, you can see all the props, etc. All the concepts, all the images. For the numbers, it really took quite. A while. All together, it was like seven days. But honestly, if I started with DeepSeek right away, probably it will. Be like just four days or something, right? But only by doing mistakes will learn and

14:19getting better. And I did it for you guys. So please hit that like button, use my workflow and make games for free. By DeepSeek calculation, it says that there. Was 13 million tokens only, which is really not a lot when I was creating games with Opus 5 .5. It. Was like billions of tokens, right?

14:38Not to say about millions. As I said, this detailed report you can find on Patreon absolutely for free. That was Steph. See you in. The next video.