I’m baffled by all of the people who think individuals who just want to make a game without needing thousands of dollars in a development budget are somehow evil. No. AI isn’t perfect and probably never will be. However, it helps people to put their ideas into something that they can’t do and can’t afford to hire someone for. AI, in a way, democratizes the ability to create projects without the need to hire out work that can’t afford otherwise. One day, someone will put out a great game using AI, because it id possible. The code won’t be perfect, but the game will playable and enjoyable - but thousands of people will boycott the game, because a 15 year old kid who doesn’t run a development company made it with AI. Not everything made with AI is slop. It depends on the people using it. Yes, there’s tons of slop out there… and quite a lot of it was written by humans without AI. Personally, I don’t care how the game was made, as long as no people were harmed by the process. Do I think AI companies are acting insane with building data centers every damned where? Yes. However, AI has helped me do things I don’t know how to do, don’t have time to spend years learning how to do, and can’t afford to hire anyone to do because… this shitty economy we’re all slaves to. AI production isn’t always slop, but some people will ever accept that. That’s sad, because they knee-jerk react when they learn that someone used AI because they couldn’t afford to hire people to do it. If the person actually creates a good game with it, though, those people will miss out because they hate AI so much that they ignore reality and brand everything AI as enshittified. South Park, ne South America, uses AI quite well to troll Trump. Iran uses it to troll him too, and personally, I love the results. If a single person uses AI to make a decent game, and someone absolutely will, I’ll play it. So will many others. So many people wear tunnel vision blinders in their hatred of AI. Fine. Don’t participate. It’ll be your loss. But please, stop spamming the universe with "all AI produced products are slop. You don’t know that, and the evidence will eventually prove you wrong. I’ll put money on that, because AI is already solving mathematical and scientific problems that we haven’t been able to solve for centuries. Ask yourself this: if you have leukemia and AI is used to find a cure, will you refuse the cure because it’s “just AI slop?” Don’t get me wrong, the tech bro billionaires pushing AI down people’s throats are wrong. I see those people as just evil, but AI is just another tool. Declaring it all bad is just foolish, though. Right now, it produces more bad than good. That will change, though. Mark my words. AI is here to stay, the genie is out of the bottle and won’t go back, because people are using it to do good things, and just like products made by human hands, a lot of just sucks, but there are pearls and nuggets of gold there too… just like everything made by humans. If AI sucks, it’s because people suck even more.
It’s crazy to me that people can get so excited by pumping out slop.
What do they think creativity is?
They don’t care, they just want to make some easy money.
Make it fun - No mistakes!
be creative, make it look great
This is the saddest blog post I ever read. Asking a machine to “make it fun”… I really hope this is the bottom of the barrel, because I am not sure I can take more.
Yeah, so sad. You hate games that are “designed by committee”, just wait for “designed by a machine regurgitating the most common designs by committee”.
That one “battle drones” screenshot looks like it just copied a Warcraft 2 level verbatim.
“Please make it fun” it’s such a boring way to make or think about games. The entire point is to find that fun by playing and iterating on it.
I don’t care if AI can make a game for me, I actually enjoy the make process
“Please make it fun”
Would this lead to a game about being a border control agent in a fictionalised soviet country?
I very much doubt it.
Or something like Rimworld, which is one of the funnest games ever but is essentially just a litany of war crimes lol
If you take a look at this in detail:
So the AI did exactly that: Added some flashy features like adaptive combat music, a progression system and so on, but also ran a lot of playtest sessions and finetuned the game balance and units with them.
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard today. Having Claude “play”-test a game 1200 times isn’t the same as having 1200 humans playtest something. It’s having one pseudorandom test 1200 times.
Also, isn’t the point of games that humans play them? That’s why it’s called a playtest. Humans play the game and report what they found enjoyable versus what needed work. The designer then gets to choose if adding units or balancing abilities is warranted. How would a machine know what an audience finds fun? How could it know what a dominant strategy might be? They don’t, and this idea that you can outsource creativity to AI is fundamentally flawed.
Simulation can be great for balance and bugcatching and making sure things work as expected, but what you get from a single human giving feedback is often worth more than 109s of sims.
You are right, but … it does work. If you play the game, it really is a solid RTS.
Why would I play a game a human didn’t make? This is actual hedonism. Just raw masturbatory dopamine seeking.
Don’t mix hedonism and slop posting
So I guess fun is mashing together a bunch of features from other RTS and MOBAs. In days gone by this sort of thing was considered shovelware garbage. I guess with AI in the mix it’s now called innovation.
Also… combat juice?
Thanks, i hate it :(
All those idea-men out there seem to have run out of ideas pretty fast.
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