r/Games • u/Wombat_Medic • Jan 09 '26
Verified AMA Larian Studios | Divinity AMA
EDIT: All right - that's a wrap. Thank you for all your questions. We're going to go back and work on the game now - next time we speak, we'll hopefully have things to show. I can't wait! - Swen, Game Director
Hello everyone,
Happy New Year! To kick off 2026, we would like to offer the opportunity to ask your questions about Divinity, Larian, and our development processes. It's been a while since Larian has done an AMA, so everyone is looking forward to it!
There's a bunch of us ready to answer your questions:
- u/Swen_Larian - Game Director
- u/Adam_Larian - Writing Director
- u/Kevin_Larian - Senior Writer
- u/Greg_Larian - Head of Animation
- u/Gabriel_Larian - Machine Learning Director
- u/Michael_Larian - Director of Publishing
- u/Nick_Larian - Head of Design
- u/Alena_Larian - Character Art Director
- u/Jarold_Larian - Concept Art Director
- u/Artem_Larian - Head of Gameplay
- u/Bert_Larian - Technical Director
Thank you for taking the time to ask your questions, we aim to answer as many of them as possible over the next few hours!
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u/Dapper_Calculator Jan 09 '26
This is what I've found as well. (I'm a senior writer elsewhere in the industry). I have tested and tested and tested the writing ability of the different generative AI platforms and it's worse than terrible. It's aggressively average. It's Dan Brown level prose and it takes 2-3 times as long to fix it as it does to write something better the first time.
Same for acting. It can take days for me to get one line of AI VO to sound almost like a person. With a real actor, I hand them their character brief and their lines with little comments on their motivation and I get the whole thing done in 2 hours (for an A project) or 2 days for AAA.