windows central EA Shows off AI Game Building Tool

[UltraMega]

 

 

Love it or hate it, this has some major implications for game development. 

 

EA's user generated game content demo with AI shows a world of cardboard | Windows Central

 

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The latest contender is publisher Electronic Arts (EA), with a demonstration of how the company is considering AI for the future during its Investor Day 2024 talk. 
 

During the presentation, EA CEO Andrew Wilson noted that AI is at the "very core of our business," with the technology being centered around the efficiency, expansion, and transformation of EA's games. EA also showed a concept video titled "Imagination to Creation," giving an example of how AI tools could be used for user-generated content. 
 

In the video, two players craft a game using simple instructions, generating a world made of cardboard boxes, selecting two characters with guns, and expanding the world while it's being played in. You can watch the demonstration below, as recorded by Geoff Keighley, host of the Game Awards, Summer Game Fest, and Opening Night Live at Gamescom.

 

[Slaughtahouse]

I thought they did a great job with video. Especially for general audiences and investors.

 

It’s clear that there could be unique and fun opportunities when the players have the opportunity to modify the conditions of the game. 
 

I think it’s easier to digest when it’s shown as written prompts, like Chat GPT but that’s really just the surface and it’s not really the experience I think players specifically want (pausing gameplay loop to type a message / prompt to the AI front end).

 

I hope in due course, we get something substantially more advanced than what Left 4 Dead had years ago. Meaning an AI system that modifies level design, difficulty, conditions etc. based on its interpretation of your gameplay. Likely at least 5 years away from that but the potential is there.

[UltraMega]

17 hours ago, Slaughtahouse said:

I thought they did a great job with video. Especially for general audiences and investors.

 

It’s clear that there could be unique and fun opportunities when the players have the opportunity to modify the conditions of the game. 
 

I think it’s easier to digest when it’s shown as written prompts, like Chat GPT but that’s really just the surface and it’s not really the experience I think players specifically want (pausing gameplay loop to type a message / prompt to the AI front end).

 

I hope in due course, we get something substantially more advanced than what Left 4 Dead had years ago. Meaning an AI system that modifies level design, difficulty, conditions etc. based on its interpretation of your gameplay. Likely at least 5 years away from that but the potential is there.

 

Definitely reminds me of the stuff Epic showed off where a map can self generate based on the assets and structure of a smaller area. Makes me wonder if in the not too distant future we will start seeing games made by devs who have essentially no traditional game dev experience and are able to put something out with AI tools and nothing more.

[Slaughtahouse]

On 19/09/2024 at 16:48, UltraMega said:

 

Definitely reminds me of the stuff Epic showed off where a map can self generate based on the assets and structure of a smaller area. Makes me wonder if in the not too distant future we will start seeing games made by devs who have essentially no traditional game dev experience and are able to put something out with AI tools and nothing more.

 

Hard to tell. The video shown is faked, in the sense it's not representative of real-time gameplay and everything is extremely scripted.  It's hard to tell what technology they actually have. It reminds me of bullshots, but to the next level. 

 

Will people have access to AI tools to make games that are as successful as, lets say Valheim, Worlde, or Balatro without formal experience? Time will tell. I believe it's more than possible. I also think the EAs of the world prefer if they deploy a platform, like an AI sandbox demonstrated, that gives players that feeling but they still control the platform, to monetize it as a service.

 

That's my gut, effectively the next evolution in the social / creation genre like Minecraft and Roblox. They all want that Minecraft / Roblox money...