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"BioWare has kind of f*cking sucked over the last decade." – @itsGnoc
Then @ParallelTCGpod cut him off:
"Gnoc Gnoc Gnoc Gnoc Gnoc. Hold on, bro... The fact that you are saying derisively that their biggest success is a remaster is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard."
A game contractor delivered a broken milestone and couldn't fix it. AI wrote all of it.
He'd also fed the client's confidential details into the AI tool. He isn't getting paid.
Game lawyer Haley MacLean's verdict: ordering at a restaurant doesn't make you a chef.
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Google's Genie 4 isn't a world you just walk through. You can play it: real physics, characters who talk back, prompts that change the scene live.
For now, it's trusted testers only. (video: @GoogleDeepMind)
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Tony has a Claptrap tattoo from a drunken bet with Take-Two's VP of sales, and War Dogs' stunt makes him want to work there.
NBA Jam, but it's Pokémon.
PokeJam is a fan-made arcade basketball game: dunks, a franchise mode that grades your draft, and a full-season sim. One fan is eight seasons in and Lugia has been MVP every time.
(fan game by @CryptoDOOM5)
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Tony says AI can't clone a deep game like Blue Prince yet. Kohji answers with Bloodborne running on his PC.
Someone turned World of Warcraft into Tarkov.
Escape from Stranglethorn is a fan-made Classic server: aimed spells, player looting, a bounty on whoever has the best loot, then you extract.
Should Blizzard hand fans the keys? (via @Izkimar)
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Kohji on Steam's AI label: if you think AI is the future, put the label on. Sam pushes back on a label that treats any AI use the same.
Wirt's leg and a Tome of Town Portal in the Horadric Cube, with your own hands, in VR.
Then the red portal and a herd of Hell Bovines at full size.
Which Diablo II moment should be next? (via @pcvrgamer)
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Will browser games take a bigger share of gaming? Oliver: "This is sh*ttier than bullsh*t."
Chris is bullish. The case: links are the best distribution format ever invented, and the way out of the App Store.
@OliverMaroney @chrisheatherly
We've had GarageBand on our Macs for years. How many hit songs have you written?
Kohji says AI tools won't turn everyone into a creator because most people don't want to make anything. Sam points to his 15 years on YouTube.
@paralleltcgpod @SamSteffanina
A Titanfall Titan in Cyberpunk 2077. Dishonored rebuilt inside Skyrim.
Both are real mods in real games. Both top replies: "AI slop."
Can people even tell anymore? (via @gameunlocked26 and @synthpotato)
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Chris says the AI backlash on Steam comes from 'lemmings who get their opinions from Chinese bots', and that AI already won.
Kotaku called out Epic and Microsoft: AI in their own games, takedowns for AI-made copies of theirs.
Tim Sweeney fired back: nobody uses Fortnite without permission, AI or not.
Kotaku calls it hypocrisy. Sweeney calls it permission. (via @Kotaku, @TimSweeneyEpic)
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In this game, if you can say it, it exists.
Mid-match you type a prompt and AI writes the game logic live. Rocket launcher, low gravity, the floor is lava.
AI slop, or actually fun? (via @jarrodwatts)
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Stadia already let you send a link and play a game in your browser. Kohji's point: it didn't work.
The counter: Poki became one of the most successful game companies of the past five years by being playable on school computers.
@paralleltcgpod
Are AI game mashups a green flag for creativity or a red flag?
Kohji says they are clickbait made for social media, and the rest of the panel fell for it. Chris: anything that gets people excited about games is great.
@paralleltcgpod @chrisheatherly
Miyamoto was asked if AI lowers the bar for making games.
His answer: "This is an era where even people who are not game designers can create games. I think it's become a very good era."
Do you agree? (via @famitsu)
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Skate mechanics in Call of Duty. Creative, or just smashing two games together?
Kohji says AI mashups are like his daughter playing with Play-Doh: two colors smashed together, nothing built.
@paralleltcgpod
Diablo 2 in VR is the coolest thing in VR right now, and Sam thinks ports like it are the future, not new IP.
Kohji's reply: we already have that game. Oliver's pitch: Meta should just buy Steam.
@SamSteffanina @paralleltcgpod @OliverMaroney