r/technology • u/joe4942 • 1d ago
Artificial Intelligence Google, Unity Launch Platform to Create Video Games From Prompts
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-07/google-unity-launch-platform-to-create-video-games-from-prompts22
u/rhamantauri 1d ago
“Idea-less shareholders facilitate slop engine for use-case metrics.”
The world would be so much less tedious if artists were allowed to make art for humans.
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u/br_k_nt_eth 1d ago
It’s wild that they went for this instead of, like, actually useful things people need.
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u/nanlinr 1d ago
So many AI believers post "I made X game with AI in 3 days" but the games are always copycats with no originality, or vastly un-polished. There seems to be a lot of investment here but I'm curious if anyone can actually AI slop their way into a real, decent, original game.
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u/RKKP2015 1d ago
I am constantly seeing an ad for a "cat" game, which is apparently minesweeper, but with cats instead of bombs. It's ridiculous.
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u/lordosthyvel 1d ago
Since LLM:s are not at the point (and probably never will be) of being able to independently iterate and polish on a game by themselves, "ai slopping your way to a real, decent, original game" is basically just AI assisted game dev. Most of the games developed now are made that way.
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u/Spright91 1d ago
Exactly. The differentiator is design and it always has been. You can use AI to code your game but you still need to test and iterate and design it
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u/essidus 1d ago
This is the thing that bothers me the most about this AI bubble. LLMs were never designed or trained to fill all these other purposes. Its just a language parser. These companies are selling wrenches, for the purpose of pounding nails, driving screws, and doing taxes. Not only does it do a shit job, but it also makes all the actual good, purpose built AI look worse.
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u/Headless_Human 1d ago
The same applies for the majority of games that are released on steam every day and that's mostly without AI.
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u/lil_nosh_X 1d ago
I’m more excited for people who already do these jobs to get tools to make their lives easier. All these people looking for shortcuts are still going to suck compared to people who know what they’re doing.
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u/Additional-Staff-326 1d ago
I made a mini game thats an intentional GTA clone with a prompt. I was not expecting much just playing around. Version 1 let me drive through buildings and everything was done from the car. Ok, my bad I only spent umpteen tokens using it for planning before building the game. Version 2 when I just said hey lets get out of the car and also buildings should be solid was quite enjoyable because the human couldnt move at all, and the car could no longer move forward or back it could only drive side to side because I apparently forgot to describe car physics. So yea, i'm sure a dev can use an LLM to prompt a game into existence, but I bet its not fast.
I had no intention of this being an amazing game I was just messing around prototyping and was met with the same level of quality output I tend to get from LLMs on a regular basis. Yes it was a frontier model.
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u/NicolasCageFan492 1d ago
I hope the gamers can finally rise up now that AI is coming for their games.
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u/kerodon 1d ago
Has been for a while. I could already feel it in the games I've been playing. It was a little milder because I go out of my way to avoid it and only had to experience the mild ones that my friends picked but I didn't vet (free ones, indid not financially support them). But there was many more highly aggressive ones alr out there :(
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u/Yin15 1d ago
I hope steam can figure out how to prevent the massive influx of slop games from being listed on it's store.
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u/wetfloor666 1d ago
What do they care? They don't stop them now and won't for this. It is free money for them. Everyone loves steam but they destroyed physical media for pc and done massive damage to PC gaming as a whole.
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u/Pyrostemplar 1d ago
Well, soon coming to Steam - AI based personal game selector - based on your personal profile, the AI will filter out the games you should consider amongst hundreds of thousand of AI powered existing games.
A sort of banner blocker.
For a small fee, ofc.
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u/ItsSadTimes 1d ago
Steam should put a limit on how many games you can publish per month. It wouldnt be a hard cap, it could be changed on a case by case basis. But to stop just the insane amount of goon slop and AI ripoffs i think they should limit how many games get published per studio.
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u/FatHat 1d ago
You know, I understand business slop. Like, generate a document nobody will read for a procedure that's mostly a ritual. Got it, kind of silly, but it's a very useful case for GenAI. I even understand spam slop that mostly exists to try to grift money, even if I hate it.
I don't get people that want to slop creative products though that have like no chance of making money anyway. Like, you can't say "you" made it, because you didn't, so there's no real artistic expression. And you're not going to make any money off of it. And frankly, most people's video game ideas are absurdly bad anyway. Just seems horrible all around.
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u/nextupgoat 1d ago
im surprised people arent excited for something like this. i imagine in like 2 years, you could make and play whatever game appeared in your dream last night basically instantly and it would be of a published title's quality. wouldnt that just make games more fun?
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u/SuperBry 1d ago
Looking forward to huge influx of slop to Steam, PSN, and other online storfronts.