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You could argue then that this reduces the barrier to entry for people to become game developers. Isn’t everything you just listed (physics engine, UI, collide
by dan-g 3y ago
You could argue then that this reduces the barrier to entry for people to become game developers.
Isn’t everything you just listed (physics engine, UI, collide entities) how you make a simple game? It doesn’t matter that it doesn’t have networking code, shaders, or sound. Those things can be added later.
I don’t think it’s productive to gatekeep who is and isn’t a game developer. They developed a game, that makes them a game developer—it doesn’t matter how they got there.
- raytopia 3y agoI'm not sure how this reduces the barrier to game developement. There are already lots of free assets and game engines designed for making arcade games that are a lot easier then say Unity or Unreal. Like https://arcade.makecode.com/ https://arcade.makecode.com/ or https://microstudio.dev/ https://microstudio.dev/ or https://scratch.mit.edu/ https://scratch.mit.edu/. And if you don't want to make arcade games there are other tools like RPG Maker, RenPy, GDevelop, and many more each of which are much easier to use then this AI pipeline (not to say it isn't impressive you can do this with AI though) and will lead to better outcomes of actually understanding game development.
- gowld 3y agoAll of those things require me to write code, in an annoying, slow, hard to debug click-drag format. I'd rather the AI write the code for me based on my natural language description of what I want.
- dan-g 3y agoMy point is there isn’t a “correct” way to become a game developer— by your own response you showed that there are frameworks you can use, WYSIWYG editors, you can code a framework from scratch in a high- or low-level language, or you can work with an AI to make something that works. This person successfully developed a game. Just because it isn’t how others would have done it doesn’t minimize the result.
- xwdv 3y agoI think some gatekeeping is warranted. If I stitch a wound it doesn’t suddenly mean I’m a doctor. Similarly, using AI to develop a game makes you as much of a game developer as someone who hires someone to make a game for them. And some development studios are basically that, people hiring developers to make games. But AI can’t compete well with that. It’s like coming up with a new fusion power plant, but it takes more energy to run than what it produces. Inspiring, but useless.
- gowld 3y agoAngry Pumpkins did not exist. Now it does. In time for Halloween. You can't refute that. Using a computer to write a letter makes you as much of a writer as someone how hites someone to write a letter for you. And some writers are basically that, hiring scribes to write for them. Computer can't compete well with that. Except it does.
- gardenhedge 3y agoDid I miss the link to download the app or something? Where does it exist?
- GaggiX 3y agohttps://bestaiprompts.art/angry-pumpkins/index.html https://bestaiprompts.art/angry-pumpkins/index.html (it's in the second tweet)
- gardenhedge 3y agoOh, I don't have a twitter account so only see the linked tweet
- GaggiX 3y agoI used the nitter link someone linked in the HN comment section.
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