future of gaming ugh

NEW: Epic Games has delayed its upcoming (not yet announced) Star Wars + Marvel shooter as it pivots to complete AI game development.

"No more hand-written code," a director told staff. All art "generated with full AI workflows."

Generative AI is not new to Epic Games, which has been pushing the technology hard in recent years, but this initiative is the first time a major gaming company will attempt to build an "AI-first" game

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"Developers on the game, a shooter featuring characters from the Marvel and Star Wars franchises, were instructed to implement an “AI first” production model using tools such as Anthropic’s Claude. Humans will then manage and guide that work. “No more hand-written code,” one of the game’s directors told staff in an internal message reviewed by Bloomberg. The director added that all art for the game would be “generated with full AI workflows.”

Jesus f***ing christ

Sounds like a good time to sell my account. Wonder how much these OG skins could get me

Epic

The future is AI

Same

ohhh shiiit

first domino down

Less than 24 hours ago I learned how much documentation and how many tools Epic has made available to developers. I had the thought "huh it's kind of cool such a successful company has enabled creators".

Lol

The director added that all art for the game would be “generated with full AI workflows

Wait so concept arts, costume, landscapes, characters, level designs are going to be created with AI?

soon everything remotely popular or mainstream will be complete slop bullshit with no semblance of human touch or a soul so i hope ai d***eaters are happy you guys won!

Epic games only makes games I no longer care about still sad though

As long as you don’t f*** with unreal engine I do not care

Thinking those docs are for devs and not for agents

First of many to come

Im so happy everything is being replaced by gen ai 😁

unsurprising that this would happen in the gaming sphere first, gamers are sheep

Unity already doing crazier s*** and at the time when they started they seemed destined for greatness on developer friendliness. The sad part is Unreal is really the main game company dropping an engine even with its many faults . that devs can use

I’m not completely against this.

If it means we get better games, I’m all for it.

Willing to give this a chance. I am surprised they’ve made this significant change for everything though. Should’ve trialled 1 game development before making it their MO.

we can maximise output to 3-5 wolverines a year instead of only 1 👀🔥

the all AI art part is like 100x worse than the coding being AI assisted

was wolverine all ai?