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Almost a third of developers think generative AI is a negative for the games industry, says new survey
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Negative for some yes but what i see is a net positive.
To the untrained Ai appears like a super cheap shortcut to make something that looks good at a glance. You know the same glance a shareholder may take at the tripple A game in development.
Its not hard to see where that is going. Tripple A is already full off enshitification, add ai slop and the result will be one stink of an overpriced mess after the other.
Actually non ironically wonderful, i hope they choke on their own fucking budget.
In the mean time actually passionate artists will also be using these tools, not as a cheap shortcut but as a way to get closer to their inherent perfectionism. To deliver what they could never afford to create before.
The video game industry is dead, long live the video game industry.
For me, ironically, the best use is useless NPCs. Use Generative-AI to make the crowd look huge and unique and not copy-pasted. But don’t use it for anything else.
I think there's also potential for more organic and dynamic NPC interactions. Perhaps even an AI GM type thing, which would allow players to use information they shouldn't yet know without just ruining the game because if the main mystery is solved in act 1, the GM could just make a new plot.
Not that I think we're anywhere close to an AI that could do that well, but it's just a matter of time (assuming things don't collapse entirely before that, which is unfortunately looking more likely than reaching the tech singularity... Or fortunately, since I'm not sure how humanity will continue after tech makes all of the work we can do redundant, as sweet as it could be for entertainment).