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I hope we will see much bigger universes with intricate and detailed lore where human steers parts of storylines and visuals to make them interesting and fit to

I hope we will see much bigger universes with intricate and detailed lore where human steers parts of storylines and visuals to make them interesting and fit together but AI fills in the blanks. Gamedev example: If NPCs lines can be generated quickly, maybe it's possible to develop open world games that change their character throughout the game. Way to often addons and expansions are carefully cordoned off from the main game because no one wants to redo all that work.

linuxftw 4y ago
Will any of these meaningfully enhance gameplay? Sure, there could be more features, but what is the marginal utility? I think people assume more immersive, more expansive is better for games, but I'm not sure this is the case.
- Nevermark 4y ago
  Dungeons & Dragons demonstrated that intelligent open world is so attractive people will crank through it with all the friction of paper character sheets, rule books, encyclopedias of creature stats, dice, dungeon masters prep and problem solving… I would love to collect a group of human and NPC players and attempt a heist from an actually intelligent dragon in an environment where no action was guardrailed Encounter creatures and cultures with no documentation but what you learn my interacting with them And with beautiful scenery to boot
- arlcode 4y ago
  Good point. I was thinking of enhancing existing capabilities to develop open world games of smaller teams or to buff out a main storyline with "world chatter". This would act as a multiplier for writers to better use the available budget/time. Sure it may not write a brilliant and engaging story (without human editing) but given the "lore" of a village and it's geographical/political position in the world I can definitely see it being useful to "set the tone" of otherwise generic background NPCs. PS: Maybe this is me trying to find use cases for current LLMs (with their known capabilities and weaknesses) that don't involve dismissing them out of hand or "the singularity".

linuxftw 4y ago

Will any of these meaningfully enhance gameplay? Sure, there could be more features, but what is the marginal utility? I think people assume more immersive, more expansive is better for games, but I'm not sure this is the case.

Nevermark 4y ago
Dungeons & Dragons demonstrated that intelligent open world is so attractive people will crank through it with all the friction of paper character sheets, rule books, encyclopedias of creature stats, dice, dungeon masters prep and problem solving… I would love to collect a group of human and NPC players and attempt a heist from an actually intelligent dragon in an environment where no action was guardrailed Encounter creatures and cultures with no documentation but what you learn my interacting with them And with beautiful scenery to boot
arlcode 4y ago
Good point. I was thinking of enhancing existing capabilities to develop open world games of smaller teams or to buff out a main storyline with "world chatter". This would act as a multiplier for writers to better use the available budget/time. Sure it may not write a brilliant and engaging story (without human editing) but given the "lore" of a village and it's geographical/political position in the world I can definitely see it being useful to "set the tone" of otherwise generic background NPCs. PS: Maybe this is me trying to find use cases for current LLMs (with their known capabilities and weaknesses) that don't involve dismissing them out of hand or "the singularity".