Oh man, ain't that the truth. 18 years old? Sleep 5h on gravel after a bender? Best night ever, let's goooo. These days? Pillow slightly too flat? Day is ruined.

I'm glad it's not a lemon party.

Chad Jagger

It looks terrible, but if they dial it in and have it be driven by the devs to keep intent inact, it could provide a ton of fidelity without burning $500 million in game dev cost (though maybe $10k in GPU cost at that point...)

It's all just machine learning. You can draw a line in the sand, but from a tech perspective GenAI == ML.

Deep Learning Super Sampling, literally generating things via neural network ("AI").

People will sneer and snicker until Genie 6 or whatever is coherent for a couple of hours, then things are gonna get real weird for gaming.

You misspelled Landstalker!

I'm just gonna binge Third Watch again.

Does extraction shooter voice synth count? Asking for a friend.

My 5yo loves this game and we've been playing it together.

And that's with a heavy dose of AI for Ark's VO. Goes to show that AI is not as much of a hindrance to a game's success as bsky et al would have you believe?

What? Hugh Laurie, Idris Elba, Christian Bale, Mathew Macfadyen, the list goes on. You're telling me you heard Stringer talk in The Wire and went "yep, clearly a Brit"??

Yes, but how many Americans can do a good British accent. There are some, but compared to vice-versa it's a very small pool.

24h time - as God intended!

Well, did ya?

That's why you strap the stochastic system into a deterministic harness.

Baseless overgeneralization, current gen agentic systems can produce comprehensive results with merit, it's just not trivial to do so.

Be careful, I can hear the thumping of pitch forks already.

ML and GenAI are literally the same. ML is the basis for deep learning, genAI is that, but scaled up. Be that diffusion models or anything based on transformers. This thread is indicative of the breathless discourse on Bluesky.

Excel? Don't be a tech bro, don't you know Excel is made by Microsoft? Pen and paper it's where it's at.

So what's different about code and art assets? Both can be creative, both can be grunt work filler/plumbing. Is it that you actively see one and not the other?

Not salty at all, plenty to talk about.

Maybe crunch, or outsourcing to bad working conditions? GenAI code? Ah wait no, we only care about genai art here. Carry on.

Glued it together with duct tape

Mad Mechs

When will you finally grace the great city of Berlin with your presence? I guess we don't have too many game dev studios 😕

I feel a fair chunk of that is the old timey photo style and pose. If you put him in modern clothing he feels slightly younger.

I believe the proper spelling is "The Wa-witch"