If AI made a great game...

[Kaamos_Llama]

If AI made a great game..... everyone in the game industry would be laid off the next day and the CEO's could take home 500,000,000 dollar bonuses every year.

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[Rolfil]

If it was a great single player game that had a really good story then yes I'd play it. If it was another live service/season based game then no way - there are way too many of them already!

 

[Mitchell Gottwald]

As of right now I would like it less if ai made a game vs humans, but give it 20 years or so and I think ai will be on top. It's bound to happen.

 

[Aramaa11]

Would you like it less because there was no human involvement? I actually think that I would, in fact, like it less. As I become more used to AI and the novelty wears off, it's just this cold thing that generates stuff. A joke is funnier if I know a person thought it up. AI can generate a great picture, and it means almost nothing to me. Give me that same picture made by a human artist, and I'll take a closer look instead of just giving it a quick scan.

As for games, I believe I would feel like an AI game was pointless. There was no developer trying to trick me. No developer balanced the boss. No developer wrote the story. Would you read a novel written by AI? I surely wouldn't bother. Books examine the human experience, something ChatGPT can only prattle on randomly about. And games are the same way. Games mean something to the developers, and this meaning is carried on to me. A game would mean nothing to an AI, and this nothingness would be transferred to me. There would be no human wondering how I would handle a particular situation. No human who couldn't wait to see my reaction to the story twist. The whole thing would be lifeless and empty.

Thoughts?

I believe AI can be beneficial, particularly when it serves as a tool rather than being the sole creator.Even though I still like the idea that a person created the story or made the game's rules, I can understand how AI can help with the job.Some picture-making places use computer help to make work less hard, so artists can do more fun creative stuff.It makes work faster but keeps the human feel.

If you're curious about how studios are blending human creativity with AI, check out this Game Art Outsourcing Studio https://ilogos.biz/game-art-production/ here that incorporates AI in their work on game animations. They strike a balance between technology and artistry, making sure the human aspect of creation is still at the forefront.

 

[Nocturnia]

I'm not convinced AI could make a great game, even if was advanced AI. Ultimately, AI functions by copying things. It doesn't put them together in new and meaningful ways. However, it could theoretically provide an endless supply of new content for tried-and-true gameplay.

I'm more interested in whether AI will enable people with little to no programming know-how to build games to their own specifications via in-depth chat prompts. The kind of thing where you tell the AI what to do with text prompts without necessarily telling it things in technical terms and the AI creates what you tell it to. The initial output may be garbage, of course, but the idea would be that you can continuously edit the AI's product with further prompts so that it would be possible to create, immediately playtest, figure out what is fun or not, and then just as quickly edit it again and try something else.

If it gives ordinary people who have brilliant ideas but lack the necessary technical skills and/or monetary backing the ability to create games that at least come close to prototyping their actual ideas. And so we could see so many brilliant new gameplay ideas arrive in the scene. On the other hand, just like now, the garbage created by every sod who thinks they have a great idea will overwhelm the genuinely good stuff. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that everyone because everyone could create a game to their own specific preferences, everyone would like their own thing but have no one to share it with. For example, I have found my own opinions on games to be fairly unpopular. If I were to create a game exactly to my specifications, I might love it. But everyone else might hate it. When you get everyone doing that, trying to find any game we actually like becomes kind of impossible. Too much stuff to sift through and none of it will ever meet our standards except for the ones we craft ourselves with AI.