Comment by PaulHoule

4 months ago

I think there's a certain antipathy between "hustle culture" and gaming

https://components.news/the-gamer-and-the-nihilist/

that is is, people who are caught in AI FOMO are performatively trying to appear to be productive and that's the opposite of fun.

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zoogeny  4 months ago

Anyone who has worked on a game knows it is a long, painful slog to the finish line. AI dev is promising the exact opposite: minimal prompts and the agent does all the slog.

Even if AI can whip up a quick demo or prototype for a game, it is the long-tail of tedious details that a passionate person has to hammer away on that separates what ships from what dies. I'm guessing most AI opportunists are looking for quick wins.

I still think it is only a matter of time before someone with the passion hammers an AI to get a game to market.

  • PaulHoule  4 months ago

    In the other corner we have the AAA publishers who are laying off devs and canceling games and talking as if AI is going to revolutionize their business… somehow.

    • zoogeny  4 months ago

      Not to be argumentative since I broadly agree with your characterization (and the mass cancelling of games is concerning), but I think AI will revolutionize at least asset creation.

      I worked on sports titles for a while and there was literally an army of contractors making uniforms, shoes, hairstyles, etc. I'm pretty convinced gen-AI will make that job obsolete.

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