Tag: game-development

CD Projekt Red isn’t ‘planning to rely on AI making complete games’, and will still be ‘predominantly using people’ for The Witcher 4 and beyond

CD Projekt Red isn’t…

Generative AI in videogame development, despite the looming potentiality of a bubble popping, has continued to be a hot-button…
A multi-month delay for Deus Ex turned into a huge payoff for one of its best characters, says designer Harvey Smith

A multi-month delay for…

Nobody likes game delays. Sure, a delay is temporary and suck is forever, as Gabe Newell once said, but…
Dwarf Fortress creator says we have a natural lean towards human-made stories, but ‘but we’re all going to be very sorely tested in the coming years’ by AI

Dwarf Fortress creator says…

Dwarf Fortress has an endless capacity for telling stories. It’s a game built on procedural generation, and any longtime…
id Software’s former co-owner says they absolutely would’ve used gen AI back in the day: ‘John Carmack would be like making Skynet or something’

id Software’s former co-owner…

Generative AI is a hot-button topic in the industry, and for good reason—it’s been kinda destructive, whether that’s jacking…
Former Arkane vets’ new studio isn’t going to try ‘trend chasing’, and in hindsight, thank God

Former Arkane vets’ new…

One tragedy about the fall of Arkane Austin—aside from Microsoft’s seeming unwillingness to give studios a chance beyond the…
Redfall developers begged Microsoft to come back and finish its last patch: ‘I know we don’t work here anymore, but can we please release this?’

Redfall developers begged Microsoft…

Redfall is one of the biggest industry disasters in recent memory—coming from Arkane Austin, a studio known for an…
Take-Two’s former AI guy is, in a twist, skeptical about AI now: ‘The guy should be selling you the gold if he’s actually got the gold’

Take-Two’s former AI guy…

Take-Two Interactive, the publisher who oversees studios like Rockstar and Gearbox, had an AI guy. ‘Had’ being the operative…
The bigwigs who want AI-generated NPCs and writing think you’re too dumb to appreciate a good story—don’t prove them right

The bigwigs who want…

As I sit here, watching Saber Interactive’s CEO have a normal one about how generative AI dialogue can totally…
Game devs charged up to 50x more for fonts by Japanese typeface maker and yes, even this might be AI’s fault

Game devs charged up…

Even with the hardware-hungry AI industry causing component shortages and sending memory prices soaring, there’s perhaps one thing I…
‘For a while it seemed like miracles were possible, and with them redemption:’ A follow-up to the legendary Disco Elysium might have been ready to play within the next year⁠—ZA/UM’s devs loved it, management canceled it and laid off the team

‘For a while it…

When members of artist collective turned game developer Studio ZA/UM thanked Marx and Engels in their 2019 Game Awards…