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I'd love to see indie game developers use these tools in combination with DALL-E to recreate the style of the PlayStation-era Final Fantasy games. 3d characters

I'd love to see indie game developers use these tools in combination with DALL-E to recreate the style of the PlayStation-era Final Fantasy games. 3d characters in 2d pre-rendered worlds. Presumably with the right tooling -- creating imagined geometry in DALL-E and generating boundaries programmatically or by hand, character models from friends / cosplayers found via craigslist and open animation sets -- you'd be able to generate a game of Final Fantasy VIII's caliber with team as small as a lone developer in only a few years, maybe shorter.

janekm 4y ago
I would propose that the reason you are nostalgic for the FF games of past is because of the unique creative vision of those games, which is not something that DALL-E can help you with much yet, though it's absolutely astonishing at mimicking other's creative styles. (there may still be a way it could help, if an artist created part of the style and used DALL-E to augment the visual production pipeline)
- avaer 4y ago
  DALL-E can't help in art direction but (somewhat surprisingly) GPT-3 plus a human scanning Pinterest can be an art director. I've spent hundreds of OpenAI dollars on this because it works. To me, that means a version DALL-E which can do art direction without me in the loop at all is not too far off.
  - truckerbill 4y ago
    What does the GPT-3 element do?
avaer 4y ago
As an lone indie dev making an AI-generated FOSS Final Fantasy, I can confirm it's possible :D. That era of games really fits well with the kind of content that AI is capable of generating today. I've been primarily tackling the synthesis from the GPT-3 + 3D animation side but the 2d prerender idea is genius. I'll need to try to hook it up one of these weekends. The only hard part, it seems, is finding the navmesh.
- schemescape 4y ago
  I want to hear more about this AI-generated FOSS Final Fantasy. Is there anything you've shared about it yet?
  - danuker 4y ago
    Their HN profile has 2 links: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=avaer https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=avaer
    - schemescape 4y ago
      Thanks! I thought I had checked their profile and didn’t see anything, but I probably just missed it.

janekm 4y ago

I would propose that the reason you are nostalgic for the FF games of past is because of the unique creative vision of those games, which is not something that DALL-E can help you with much yet, though it's absolutely astonishing at mimicking other's creative styles. (there may still be a way it could help, if an artist created part of the style and used DALL-E to augment the visual production pipeline)

avaer 4y ago
DALL-E can't help in art direction but (somewhat surprisingly) GPT-3 plus a human scanning Pinterest can be an art director. I've spent hundreds of OpenAI dollars on this because it works. To me, that means a version DALL-E which can do art direction without me in the loop at all is not too far off.
- truckerbill 4y ago
  What does the GPT-3 element do?

avaer 4y ago

As an lone indie dev making an AI-generated FOSS Final Fantasy, I can confirm it's possible :D. That era of games really fits well with the kind of content that AI is capable of generating today. I've been primarily tackling the synthesis from the GPT-3 + 3D animation side but the 2d prerender idea is genius. I'll need to try to hook it up one of these weekends. The only hard part, it seems, is finding the navmesh.

schemescape 4y ago
I want to hear more about this AI-generated FOSS Final Fantasy. Is there anything you've shared about it yet?
- danuker 4y ago
  Their HN profile has 2 links: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=avaer https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=avaer
  - schemescape 4y ago
    Thanks! I thought I had checked their profile and didn’t see anything, but I probably just missed it.