Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Artificial Intelligence will have some massive impacts on game development, not only as an incredible tool for game developers, but we're also getting closer and closer to AI agents making full on video games without any intervention. This is a deep dive on the subject. We'll talk about why AI generated games are much closer than a lot of you may think, what it means for the future and how to cope with it as a game developer. Enjoy! :)

The Basics:
0:00 - Intro
1:31 - The State of Text Generation
2:54 - The State of Image Generation
3:39 - Prompt Engineering is Not Safe
4:25 - AI Black-Boxes (Anything to Anything)
5:40 - Why Generating Games is Hard

How AI Will Make Games:
6:13 - AI Agents (Goal to Action)
7:51 - Agents Taking Action
8:31 - Agents With Vision
9:24 - The Future of AI Agents

Recursive Feedback Loops:
10:05 - Why Feedback Loops are Crucial
11:27 - How AI Will Play Its Own Games
14:49 - How AI Will Feedback Its Own Games

AI Architectures:
17:25 - How AI Will Make Full On Video Games
18:34 - Prove of Concept: Chat Dev
20:03 - Prove of Concept: Writing Agents
22:12 - Creative Processes
23:06 - Self-Improving Creative Processes
25:28 - Why It Will Be Difficult to Compete

Will AI Ever Make Great Games? - Community Opinions:
26:46 - Most Think AI Will Never Make Great Games
27:06 - Lack of Training Data
28:05 - Making Coherent Games
28:34 - Understanding Fun
30:33 - Legal Barricades
32:23 - Laws to Protect Game Devs
32:40 - Consumers Will Decide
33:04 - Capability Doubts
34:26 - Profitability Doubts
34:58 - Information Retrieval vs. Reasoning
35:44 - So Many More Opinions On This...

The Timeline
36:28 - The AI-Assisted Phase
36:37 - How AI Can Help Game Developers NOW
38:26 - Example: AI Localization For Games
41:47 - AI Voice Acting
43:14 - The Strongly AI-Assisted Phase
44:15 - AI Assistants
45:36 - Advanced Anything to Anything
45:46 - Example: 3D Modelling
46:41 - More Predictions & More Drama
47:28 - The Five Stages of Grief
48:16 - How The Moral Debate Will Continue
50:42 - The Mostly Automated Phase
53:09 - The Fully Automated Phase

Coping
56:30 - How to Cope as a Game Developer
56:46 - Gratitude
57:24 - Making Better Games
57:58 - If This Happens, It'll Be Everybody's Problem
58:18 - You'll Have a Choice
59:10 - You'll Always Have the Chance to Connect to an Audience
59:39 - Finally Beginning the Real Search for Meaning
1:00:20 - AI Making Games Is The Least of My AI Concerns

Advice
1:01:18 - Rediscover the Fun in Learning
1:02:12 - Consider All Outcomes
1:03:24 - Figure Out Why You Make Games
1:04:16 - Accept Change
1:05:11 - Stay Open Minded


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Hope you enjoy. :)
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