Comment by Johanx64
2 days ago
It's the sales pitch that doesn't work for "normal" people, but only artsy-fartsy people and "games journalists".
Ie. a vocal and mostly irrelevant small minority.
Never forget who your main audience is.
2 days ago
It's the sales pitch that doesn't work for "normal" people, but only artsy-fartsy people and "games journalists".
Ie. a vocal and mostly irrelevant small minority.
Never forget who your main audience is.
But normal people also arent pro AI. Thats again a very small, vocal and irrelevant minority.
The main audience isn't going to not buy a game because it doesn't use AI
"Normal" people will just buy the game if it's good.
So it's irrelevant if it uses AI or not. Ie. it's not a sales pitch and not part of decision making process when making the purchase.
There are increasingly more games that use some form of AI generated content, voice lines or otherwise, and nobody could care less, except the people outlined above.
"Normal" people already hate AI being chowed down their throat. The won't mind AI, when it doesn't feel like AI. As soon as it does, that is a bad not a good feature.
By your own admission its not irrelevant, there are a small group of people who do care about that kind of thing on either side. For an indie dev, that matters. AAA studios can pretty much guarantee at least a few thousand sales, indie devs, especially the less established ones, have far less. For first timers, there'll be none at all.
The thing is though, appealing to the pro-AI crowd is much more difficult. They want a game thats a shining example of what AI can be in gaming. The anti-AI crowd doesn't need that, they've got examples of that for decades. A few AI generated voice lines won't do much to appeal to the pro-AI crowd.
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If I had to guess, and this is just a wild guess, I would assume the average consumer cares if a game is good, not what tech was used to make it.
Only a small number of indie games will go mainstream enough for that to matter, I think. If your likely outcome is selling 10,000 copies getting in with the reviewer and blogger crowd is probably helpful.
> It's the sales pitch that doesn't work for "normal" people
it's anyways about gamers and of that only gamers that are reachable for not yet successful indie games