AI game development seems to be the next big trend

[winb83]

Microsoft is enamored with AI as we all know. Halo seems to be going all in on it.
Seemingly lost a long employed art director over it.

Halo art director leaves studio after 17 years with ominous message alluding to discontent

Halo art director Glenn Israel has left Halo Studios after 17 years working on the franchise.

www.eurogamer.net

EA's new owners are also going all in on it.

EA's New Owner Plans AI Pivot 'To Significantly Cut Operating Costs'— Report

After last week's leak of an EA buyout, an official agreement was announced that would see the game studio be bought out by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for a whopping $55 bn, with the current CEO, Andrew Wilson, remaining in his post for the time being. The deal is slated to go into...

www.techpowerup.com

Take Two is also heading in that direction.

Take-Two CEO: GenAI will add jobs, not eliminate them

Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Grand Theft Auto VI publisher Take-Two Interactive, made a case for why generative AI won't actually kill jobs.

www.gamedeveloper.com

Unlike NFTs I doubt this fades away. Should be interesting to see how this turns out.

 

[Jaguar93]

Even Sakurai

Smash Bros creator Sakurai says AI can fix “unsustainable” game development - Dexerto

Smash Bros director Masahiro Sakurai believes game development as we know it is no longer sustainable and AI may be the only way forward.

www.dexerto.com

To be honest, it's a bit of a long shot. I think we have come to a situation where it is not sustainable to try to produce games on the large scale that we currently do, because it is too much work. I feel that we cannot continue like this, but the only effective breakthrough I can think of at this point is generative AI. I feel that we are now at a stage where we must change our scheme, for example, by using generative AI to improve work efficiency. And I believe that only those companies that can successfully respond to such changes will be able to survive.

 

[Lord Beasley]

If they make good games, Idgaf just like I don't really give two shyts about druck or any gaming head. Give me good games and I'll cop

 

[T-K-G]

Lot of industries already using it for coding and just letting employees clean up the more complicated stuff ai can't do well yet people crashing out and leaving the jobs over it is silly though, gaming industry already had horrible hours, the person who was working an 80 hour week isn't gonna be upset at this

 

[TDT]

Ubisoft kind of already there..they have some software called GhostWriter or something(writes dialog for NPCs )

The Callisto Protocol,the developer's art department kind of admitted to using A.I to create some of the game's concept art

 

[Maude]

Lot of industries already using it for coding and just letting employees clean up the more complicated stuff ai can't do well yet people crashing out and leaving the jobs over it is silly though, gaming industry already had horrible hours, the person who was working an 80 hour week isn't gonna be upset at this

AI isn’t fixing any of the structural problems that cause 80-hour work weeks. Those hours come from mismanagement, crunch culture, and pressure from upper management. If anything A.I. is just being used as a cost-cutting tool. Studios lay people off, then expect the smaller team to do the same amount of work with the help of A.I. So it’s still 80-hour weeks, just with fewer people.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

If they make good games, Idgaf just like I don't really give two shyts about druck or any gaming head. Give me good games and I'll cop

If they make good games with shorter time frames. Games taking devs 4 and 5 years. But I guess I can't complain with my backlog.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

I know….the internet says we should be mad at A.I. and reject it, but if it helps devs make games better faster and cheaper then i welcome it.

Gaming has always been on the forefront of innovation in electronics/entertainment.

I look forward to what creators can do with new tools

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Lot of industries already using it for coding and just letting employees clean up the more complicated stuff ai can't do well yet people crashing out and leaving the jobs over it is silly though, gaming industry already had horrible hours, the person who was working an 80 hour week isn't gonna be upset at this

Yup, for years we’ve been hearing about the astronomical human cost it takes to make games.


Now a potential solution comes along and we supposed to be mad at that very problem being addressed

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

I know….the internet says we should be mad at A.I. and reject it, but if it helps devs make games better faster and cheaper then i welcome it.

Gaming has always been on the forefront of innovation in electronics/entertainment.

I look forward to what creators can do with new tools

Yup, for years we’ve been hearing about the astronomical human cost it takes to make games.


Now a potential solution comes along and we supposed to be mad at that very problem being addressed

AI is being used as a very broad term that the lay person thinks is just making goofy videos and writing book reports for you.
When AI is used for asset "creation" it hurts everyone.
AI does not create anything. It scrapes/steals the hard work and innovation of real creators while consumers shrug it off with a "so what" attitude.
To me, we're at a point where there needs to be government regulation on the legal uses of AI.
Automating tasks to reduce costs is one thing.
Opening up a program and typing "create this alien that looks like this, and write the code for it" is ethically wrong as the reality is for that AI to give you that output, it requires the training data it casually stole.
I look at Timbaland and Suno and it pisses me off.
People really think a program is capable of independent creative thought when in fact, the program is scraping together melodies and sounds it put together from other people's music.

A lot of people are comparing this AI surge as the matrix, but I think Star Trek nerds would understand it even better.
AI is out here as the Borg and the general public is saying "assimilate me. who cares. my life will be better for it anyway".

Again, I'm not opposed to the ethical use of AI such as automating mundane tasks.
Helping debug code, find errors, streamline code, maybe help make in game assets perform more efficiently (like hey this character has way more polygons than you actually need. try this), etc.

 

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[GambinoMakeItWork]

stay away from the narratives and voice acting in my movie games

 

[Water]

I know….the internet says we should be mad at A.I. and reject it, but if it helps devs make games better faster and cheaper then i welcome it.

Gaming has always been on the forefront of innovation in electronics/entertainment.

I look forward to what creators can do with new tools

It ain't getting cheaper lol. The company gonna make hella money from less bodies and then expect the customer to keep paying more

 

[MeachTheMonster]

It ain't getting cheaper lol. The company gonna make hella money from less bodies and then expect the customer to keep paying more

Cheaper for them to make is what i was saying.

AI is being used as a very broad term that the lay person thinks is just making goofy videos and writing book reports for you.
When AI is used for asset "creation" it hurts everyone.
AI does not create anything. It scrapes/steals the hard work and innovation of real creators while consumers shrug it off with a "so what" attitude.

When CGI was first being used there was people dooming and glooming about the “real” creators then.

A.I is a tool and it will still take talented and creative people to make quality products.

Some low level grunt workers will no longer be needed, but i think that’s a good thing.

No reason a game should need thousands of people mindlessly drawing assets for a game to exist.

To me, we're at a point where there needs to be government regulation on the legal uses of AI.
Automating tasks to reduce costs is one thing.
Opening up a program and typing "create this alien that looks like this, and write the code for it" is ethically wrong as the reality is for that AI to give you that output, it requires the training data it casually stole.

Thats just some fun shyt people do on the internet and reality is, without a skilled human touch most of that stuff is janky and obviously A.I.

I don’t think we will get MLK wrestling in videogames

I look at Timbaland and Suno and it pisses me off.
People really think a program is capable of independent creative thought when in fact, the program is scraping together melodies and sounds it put together from other people's music.

A lot of people are comparing this AI surge as the matrix, but I think Star Trek nerds would understand it even better.
AI is out here as the Borg and the general public is saying "assimilate me. who cares. my life will be better for it anyway".

Again, I'm not opposed to the ethical use of AI such as automating mundane tasks.
Helping debug code, find errors, streamline code, maybe help make in game assets perform more efficiently (like hey this character has way more polygons than you actually need. try this), etc.

All new technological tools need new ethical standards. I’m not opposed to finding out what those standards should be

 

[duncanthetall]

All this means is more jobs will be lost while costs continue to rocket up. Somehow the corporations think it is sustainable. They will squeeze us dry. Figuratively only until they decide to literally.