Paul Sawaya

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Godot really is a great piece of software

Hi! Are your DMs open? Am the founder of a new game studio, just tried to drop you a line

Cool, DMed :)

Am thinking about building our graphically intense video game using CSS. Funded stealth startup. Is that something you might be interested in?

ChatGPT has gotten significantly better in the past two years. I wish I had benchmarks handy to link for you, but I don't atm

Here's a comparison of ~2 yrs of progress for Midjourney, though

Outside of games, totally. ChatGPT has something like 400M weekly active users.

I think the games industry has been slow to adopt AI. But it feels inevitable that it'll happen.

The author is a well-known games industry leader (CEO of Nexon).

Whether AI behaves like a platform or not is actually a great question. I actually think that's the weakest point in the article.

Status AI Game • Express yourself as any character, in any fandom Status AI is a fanfiction roleplay game app, express yourself as any character, live your dream storyline, gain followers. Choose from 1000s of characters.

It's early days, so it's hard to see a clear picture of the future!

Here's some cool stuff that feels like a glimpse of what's coming:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tba...
www.statusai.com

I don't think that comparison is very fair tbh. Here's a meme my friend made:

Gen AI is an emerging technology, so imo it's not fair to compare it to mature games. Think about how primitive the earliest 3D and online games were. AI is improving at an even faster rate than those did when they were new.

"play pattern" is just a games industry term. You can just as easily say it'll enable new genres as well as revitalize old ones

Geoff Keighley on X: "Microsoft has created an AI-generated replica of Quake II that you can play in browser. "Every frame is created on the fly by an AI world model." Play it here: https://t.co/WGQymDOmsj https://t.co/35MX5aHPbF" / X Microsoft has created an AI-generated replica of Quake II that you can play in browser. "Every frame is created on the fly by an AI world model." Play it here: https://t.co/WGQymDOmsj https://t.co/35MX5aHPbF

He wrote it in response to this demo: x.com/geoffkeighle...

Suck Up!

AI self-driving cars are here. I live in San Francisco, and Waymo is fantastic.

We've only begun to see new play patterns enabled by AI. Here's one: www.playsuckup.com

He's referring to generative AI in that tweet.

John Carmack on X: "@rubyrangerr I think you are misunderstanding what this tech demo actually is, but I will engage with what I think your gripe is — AI tooling trivializing the skillsets of programmers, artists, and designers. My first games involved hand assembling machine code and turning graph paper" / X @rubyrangerr I think you are misunderstanding what this tech demo actually is, but I will engage with what I think your gripe is — AI tooling trivializing the skillsets of programmers, artists, and designers. My first games involved hand assembling machine code and turning graph paper

BTW, since your bio mentions Carmack, check out this tweet: x.com/ID_AA_Carmac...

This tech is improving very rapidly. If you think AI can't do something, wait 4 months and try again.

Yep. On the plus side, it's fun to imagine all of the new game studios and game types AI is going to enable.

Episode 07 - Gamecraft Last season, Mitch and Blake discussed the implications of new Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence in games. In this episode, they return to the topic, this time focusing on games that are us...

Cool video. You might want to check out this podcast, too: gamecraftpod.com/podcast/aipl...

Why not? I just liked yours.

I think generative AI has the potential to be a hugely positive force in the games industry, especially for indie, small, and medium-sized studios.
I'm glad you're experimenting with it and hope you don't pay attention to the negative comments! They're not representative of the full gaming audience.

Generative AI as the thing that will save the games industry www.owenmahoney.ai/owen-mahoney...

Just doesn’t create as many engagement hours as “discover”

Headline that says mushrooms may talk to one another with up to 50 words

so they're mycoblogging

YouTube video by jimmyoyler666 David Lynch Ideas

RIP David Lynch www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPc1...

Stimulation Clicker Stimulate your senses

Early 2025 GOTY contender neal.fun/stimulation-...

What's the most artistically interesting thing you've seen created with gen AI?

Pistols closest to finger guns

Does anyone remember tag clouds?

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