4am thoughts on what AI is doing to gaming

Yesterday was one of those days... AI upended the fundamentals of a company I work with. A very reputable studio I work with has gone from launching 4 games a year to 4 full-on games a month. All with arguably better production quality.

All games are open source now! I wrote up my thoughts on what this means for the gaming industry and some predictions on where things go from here! Let me know what you think :)

Anthropic is launching a European consultancy that: "will embed AI consultants and engineers into European businesses" It will launch by the end of this year with hubs in London and Berlin. A large proportion of the UK economy is based on professional services / consultancies. Anthropic is swooping in to gobble it up.

People are losing the attention span to even watch 30 minute TV shows as short form video eats the world.

We started Chartis with one simple question: “How do we help UEFN creators become successful.”  We’ve had quite the past 3 years, working closely with creators big and small, from @BirdoBro and @dagwummy -shoutout GDC 2024- to @FeRinS_FN @HazeCoding @TeraCreators , @ChitaZ , @ManuA12, and @jaythofficial just to name a few of the 150+ creators I get to spend every day with.  But the stakes have changed. AI is opening up exponential possibilities for creators on Fortnite and Roblox, but also new entrants like Google Playground, Spawn, and Astrocade. We’ve bootstrapped Chartis for close to three years, and now the opportunity to help hundreds of thousands of new creators be more successful means we need to scale and accelerate. We’re taking investment from @MrDylanCollins , Maximilian Bleyleben, and their Attention Holdings vehicle to 1000x what we’re already doing. Dylan is well known in the UGC space (he’s founded multiple successful companies including SuperAwesome, which Epic Games acquired) and Max has scaled multiple companies (including SuperAwesome as co-founder & COO). More importantly, they are joining us full time, bringing immense firepower to our already incredible team. This is the evolution of Chartis, going from bootstrapping to accelerating - (still fueled by Yerba, beers, and vibes) We’re focused on launching more services and initiatives for UGC creators on Fortnite to help them become wildly successful. But we’re not stopping there. AI has clearly opened up the gates to people who like games but could never (until now) become game creators. The future’s wild and we’re just getting started. LFG

I also overhauled the roundups of featured games on all the vibe gaming sites. I'm aggregating the Top 20 games from @spawn, @RemixGG_, @TesanaAI, @Rosebud_AI, @PlayAstrocade, @BitmagicAI, and @Rosebud_AI This is the only place see can see ALL the top games from ALL the top vibe sites in one place.

SMBs are so far from adopting AI. I thought the explosion of consumer agent calls and texts would pull SMBs into adoption over the next few years. But many don't even have basic online booking. (I'm attempting to pay someone to train our dog)

Gaming is in it’s Napster phase right now

A sector which most VC investors had written off has just become the most exciting place to build things (again).

Finally people get it. AI + prompt based gaming = Metaverse. It is what @TimSweeneyEpic @ballmatthew and others have been saying for years. Note that if you said AI was relevant and accelerant for the Metaverse, they'd say it was attaching a dead buzzword to the new one for street cred. But here we are- you cannot deny what your eyes see. Very clear that the battle being waged for AI enabled gaming- especially prompts like what @DavidBaszucki is aiming for with Roblox- will lead to the exact vision of the Metaverse as put out in Ball's original essays: -Massively Scaled -Interoperable -Real-time rendered -3D virtual worlds -Experienced Synchronously and Persistently -By unlimited users It's not a future that is coming, it's already here. Intentionally built and predicted accurately years back.