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Sure, but the scale of Flight Simulator makes it pretty unique.

• danielbarla 6y ago
  Yes, and hidden therein is an important distinction - basically all of the previous games that looked quite close to real life (from relatively close to the ground, that is) did it by extensive handcrafting. In a very large part, the "level designer" for FS 2020 is an AI, or more exactly, a team of humans who use AI as a tool to increase their productivity and reach by orders of magnitude. This is particularly visible in open-world games, where it is not feasible to hand craft everything. The results do seem quite spectacular, and put similar games to shame. It's early days yet, but I'm quite excited about the prospect of using code to fill in the blanks and generate content like this; it could be a great way to limit game development costs in the future.