Etched Introduces AI-Powered Games Without GPUs, Displays Minecraft Replica

[duckface]

I think creating a game from scratch is kind of difficult, but using a game model with square polygons and the AI modifying them to whatever you want could be something possible in the short term 3~6 years

 

[ZoneDymo]

Its cool as a concept but it does not even work, apart from looking just like a vague mess, it does not hold the data of what you were looking at when you turn around, so the world changes every time you just look around.....

 

[Shihab]

an AI model spit out an entire playable game

You know what we call something that spits out an entire playable game given some specifications?
A game engine. We call it a game engine...

(Slightly-obscure plagiarism aside, a "game engine" is much, much more than just what you use to draw your game)

 

[JWNoctis]

Interesting how it is very often Minecraft, when it comes to these kinds of proof-of-concepts. Simple concept and ready availability of training footage, maybe?

If it would one day improvise any game on user prompt like an electronic (and even fancier) version of what Gene Roddenberry imagined for the holodeck, then it might work. This is not it. Not yet.

LLM-powered text adventures, roleplays, and writing companions are closer to usefulness, but also not quite there yet.

 

[Shihab]

LLM-powered text adventures, roleplays, and writing companions are closer to usefulness, but also not quite there yet.

It would be interesting to have some lighweight LLMs and speech generators implemented for non-essential NPC design (like GTA's pedestrians). I suppose it would still be too expensive for such a secondery aspect of a video game, but the unavoidable "contraversies" that would follow (as is the case with every "AI" chatbot use thusfar) would, by itself, be worth it.

 

[Ruru]

But can it run Crysis?

sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[mb194dc]

Still searching for a decent use case...

 

[Vayra86]

I can see it now...a game with a simple story, no rules until you start, every restart after death all new, but somehow keeps everything interesting and not frustrating. Somehow, I don't see it except for candy crush, tetris, and other simpler games. Even the original Rogue would be beyond frustrating if the rules, monsters, etc. were randomly plucked from an endless supply.

Games like this, basically

Noita on Steam

Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

store.steampowered.com

If an AI can make this calibre of game, I'm sold on the technology. So far though...

Except none of us have a choice or a vote in that. If the economics point to game streaming being the solution, and they do, then gaming streaming will be gaming. And the only choice you will have is to stream or give up gaming.

So, you have just said you are giving up gaming.

Economics are determined by the inhabitants of countries, dear friend. And since gaming is consumer facing, economics are determined by the consumer. What's popular today, doesn't have to be tomorrow, and another few thousand influential factors apply here to what we buy, don't buy, and do or don't stream.

You're making a major mistake if you think that whatever corporate chooses to pursue is initially an economically good thing to pursue. That's not how business works. If you want to have a market, you create a demand, or you buy a company. And one big way demand is created right now is by taking things away from you. Streaming won't survive on that form of extortion. People aren't that stupid, and reality simply gets in the way. The requirements for streamed games to work properly are immense, and certainly not 'economically sound' either. The reality that needs to exist for streaming to be the end-all-other entertainment thing, is lightyears away.

If you want a live example of all this, look at the 'emerging market' that was grocery courier services (get a Snickers brought to your door in 10 minutes). Popped out one after another during covid, and now they're all gone again. The market was never profitable, but going by your ideas, we should've all been using them full time at this point, because 'companies did it'.

 

[Prima.Vera]

There is an AI version of DOOM but the "game play" is incoherent, you turn around and everything is different, etc. It's like a hallucination nightmare.

Wow, that's so bad!!
Where can I download it??

 

[xorbe]

Wow, that's so bad!!
Where can I download it??

I doubt it was publicly released (for legal reasons).