Technology has shown great and rapid advances in recent times, and that impact was also seen in the world of video game. From the first consoles with second-dimensional images, to online games that can be played on any device with hyper-realistic graphics. However, the artificial intelligence (AI) could change the panorama. What’s coming next?
The great boom of I toolsGenerative technology bursts strongly into many professional fields. But how could it be deployed in a game?
One of the crucial elements in a game are the NPC, non-playable characters, which are the characters that are not used to play, but rather make up the adventure or world story. Many times, they have dialogs with the user or participations in the background.
To give them more humanity and naturalness, it was launched Ghostwriteran artificial intelligence platform created to generate even more conversations between characters to make the game as organic, fluid and original as possible. The idea is to have more options and varieties when interacting in the game.
In addition, this would help expand multiverses between games, worlds with infinite possibilities and a completely personalized experience by algorithms and online interaction.
Behind the scenes, artificial intelligence too It would help a lot to improve the quality, resolution and speed of gamesproviding reports and analysis at the time of failures or errors to improve.
This would give better optimization to the scene and, therefore, a greater sense of realism. It can be seen in the latest games that, in addition to having better graphics and better and greater resources, they have updated and fast systems.
Additionally, many video games They are tested by humans before its launch to detect bugs and improve the user experience. However, with more complexities and elements, more effort is required.
Through the machine learningplatforms are also being implemented that can make more agile, rigorous evaluations, in much less time. Likewise, the work of Detection of programming-related slips It is more easily done by machine learning than by people.
On the other hand, most game creators are looking for a director of “AI” to be able to customize and balance the difficulty of the game with the user. This would universalize and unify the sessions according to the profile of each player.
That is, artificial intelligence Today you can adjust the levels or missions to suit the abilities of each userbased on your hours played or the characteristics according to your history.
Currently, according to a study carried out by the Congress of Video Game Developers, among 3000 companies of professional video game creatorsa third have already incorporated artificial intelligence somewhere in their workspace.
Even so, in this same survey87% of developers expressed doubts and concern about the impact this may have on the industry.
Many highlighted the fact that numerous game writers can find themselves out of work and, in the process, lose narrative and creative cohesion to their games.
Xalavier Nelson Jr.an independent video game creator and one of the most influential voices in the industry, publicly noted that, although generative artificial intelligence can provide complexity and variability to different elements of a playful story, It loses meaning if it does not have consistency.
That is, in the long term, Human creativity will be needed to provide coherence and “soul” to the narratives. arranged in video games, providing specificity, style and imprint.
A debate on ethics was also opened: four out of five developers believe that it is not entirely “moral” to create a universe generated entirely by artificial intelligence. And it is also the question that users are asked: Do you want to play games made by machines or humans?
