Capcom is experimenting with generative AI to help generate the “hundreds of thousands of ideas needed for game development"
Capcom is experimenting with generative AI to help generate the “hundreds of thousands of ideas needed for game development"
Capcom's technical director talks about their experimental system for using generative AI to streamline the brainstorming process.
Resident Evil and Street Fighter series developer Capcom is experimenting with introducing new technology, including generative AI, to tackle the ballooning costs and man-hours required for game development. In a recent interview with Google Cloud Japan, Kazuki Abe, a technical director at Capcom, gave some specific examples of what this involves. Based on his explanation, it doesn't seem like Capcom is trying to use AI to generate anything directly related to gameplay, stories or character designs.
According to Abe, one of the most time-consuming and labor-intensive parts of game development is coming up with the "hundreds of thousands of unique ideas" needed to create the in-game environment. For example, if you want to put a TV inside of your game, you can't just use an existing product as is – you need to think of a fictional TV design from scratch, including the manufacturer's logo and everything else about the object.
Cool, cool. More jobs to disappear.
Corpo figurehead bloviating nonsense problems to justify paying fewer writers. Sure, just pay google to steal their ideas badly and at scale. As if they don't already recycle and resell content constantly, you need an LLM to steal a riff on the Magnavox logo? Maybe leave the creative industry and make room for actual creatives.
it's very funny because at the absolute most this maybe saves like, what, two steps in the best case? AI is so bad at this stuff that you have to human-edit it into something that looks good most of the time anyways
but! think of all the fresh water it will waste.
where in the article does it say the owners are looking to pay fewer writers? it explicitly says "Capcom [isn't] trying to use AI to generate anything directly related to gameplay, stories or character designs." please let us know
oh sorry, i treat all communication from corpos as hostile propaganda regarding labor and i make logical assumptions about what will happen to people whose labor is replaced
my views may not be suited for your purposes
...'cause creating a fictional TV is creative work. xD
It definitely can be if a creative does it. Look at Max Payne, Persona 4, or Golden Light (pictured) if you want to see examples of artists doing it well. What absolutely won't create a fictional TV that is elevated to the level of "good video game art" is some trash theft model.
I thought this was The Onion and now I'm disappointed.