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.
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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
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It’s reality shows all over again. (When it comes to TV anyway)
Remember the early 2000s sitcoms kinda went away because reality shows were the hot new thing and cheaper to produce?
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The writers strike didn’t last until 2008, which is when Breaking Bad came out and suddenly TV was good again. Maybe even better than before.
The Sopranos ran from 1999-2007. The Wire was 2002-2008. Its always sunny in philadelphia started in 2005. Curb your enthusiasm started in 2000. Scrubs started 2001. So its not even just that two of the most critically acclaimed shows of all time were made in that time period, but some of the most groundbreaking and influential comedy shows also. If you think breaking bad was some sort of turning point for TV you missed a lot of history.
…'cause creating a fictional TV is creative work. xD
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