Sometimes the AI comes up with surprising ideas.
“I remember once we were trying to build a police station and we asked the AI to populate it, and it came back with a doughnut on every desk.
“Another time, we were building an apartment and it kept consistently putting a sock under the coffee table. We wondered if it was a bug but it turned out we had labelled it a bachelor apartment so I guess that it was logical to some extent,” he says.
It has created an engine that allows developers to add realism to game worlds and emotional depth to characters. The firm is also working on what it calls a narrative graph, developed in partnership with Xbox, which will use AI to help create storylines.
Chief executive Kylan Gibbs tells the BBC that he believes AI will allow developers to “dream bigger than ever before”.
“The engine allows developers to add AI agents that can see, sense, and perceive the world around them, while also interacting with players and taking in-game actions. When you can imbue virtual characters with advanced cognitive capabilities, it unlocks a completely new paradigm for storytelling and gameplay,” he says.
Nick Walton is the chief executive of gaming firm Latitude.io, and he believes AI has the power to personalize the gaming experience.
“We are at the start with AI and as it advances we will see very dynamic, adaptive worlds with characters that feel alive, with story arcs where you as the hero are doing unique things and having a very unique impact on the world.
“You could play a game where you find a town that no-one else cares about and no other player has spent time in, and you can get really invested in it and develop relationships with all the characters in it,”
He said that he was surprised by the success of Dungeon, the first version of which was launched in 2019.
“It was started as a side project that I just put on the internet and within a week 100,000 people had played it,” he says.
“I think there’s just a lot of replayability because the story is different every time and you can take it in any direction. And there’s this ability to have true choice which has always been a goal for many games.”
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