Xbox has announced today that it has entered into a partnership with the company "Inworld AI" in an attempt to "empower game creators with the potential of generative AI" in dialogue, story and quest design.
Inworld describes itself as the "leading Character Engine for AI NPCs", and Microsoft clearly thinks that this partnership can be hugely beneficial for game creators in the future - here's a bit of what their multi-platform toolset will provide:
Together, we aim to deliver an accessible, responsibly designed multi-platform AI toolset to assist and empower creators in dialogue, story & quest design. The toolset will include:
- An AI design copilot that assists and empowers game designers to explore more creative ideas, turning prompts into detailed scripts, dialogue trees, quests and more.
- An AI character runtime engine that can be integrated into the game client, enabling entirely new narratives with dynamically-generated stories, quests, and dialogue for players to experience.
Microsoft says that in addition to Inworld's expertise, it will also be harnessing its own "cutting-edge cloud-based AI solutions" such as the Azure OpenAI Service in order to create this toolset, and the company's approach to AI is based on "meaningful innovation, empowering people and organisations, and responsibility".
"We want to help make it easier for developers to realize their visions, try new things, push the boundaries of gaming today and experiment to improve gameplay, player connection and more. We will collaborate and innovate with game creators inside Xbox studios as well as third-party studios as we develop the tools that meet their needs and inspire new possibilities for future games."
This new partnership with Inworld is a multi-year deal, and it's described by Team Xbox as "an important step in our journey to empower game developers". Obviously it's early days right now, but it'll be interesting to see just how meaningful and prominent this partnership proves to be in the coming months and years.
What are your thoughts on this? Tell us down in the comments section below.
[source developer.microsoft.com]
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An overused line since the Spider-man movies but never has it seemed more relevant than with AI.
I am really excited about the potential possibilities of AI, ML and other similar tech in games, but terrified it will be abused and used in ways that will negatively impact this artform, and the creatives that make games, in the long term.
Great news! More tools available to devs is always a good thing.
So they plan to train an AI on old games and genre tropes to generate fresh new experiences in filler conversations and side quests? Can't wait!
I'm all for it.
AI has already proven to do some incredible things as long as those things are algorithmic-based tasks rather than using AI to replace human creativity.
This could possibly be used to create AI generated games for people to try and quickly make money from. Not saying it will be widely abused but there will be some who use such technology to make the game for them with little effort. I wouldn't imagine the results would be good but it will be no different to the loads of "games" on digital stores now where people use public assets and slap them together.
Oh boy, here we go. This is one of the big reasons we've seen so many layoffs this year. All these corporations have been prepping this AI takeover. This really sucks to hear. It's great cuz games will be pumped out quicker but means we'll get more issues like we saw with the AI masterpiece that was the GTA Definitive Trilogy. I really do hope I'm wrong but the way the industry has been going the last couple years I highly doubt I am. At the end of the day corporations are going to corporate and all that matters to them is cash flow.
I think in the context used it will be interesting. My hope is that it is used as a supplement and not as a replacement for writers.
Wow. The future comes very fast (maybe a little to fast in my opinon). It feels unfounatetly that tools like this may lead to more layoffs in the industry.
There's a few quid saved to just use Ai and sack a few people the way the world is going
So both Sony and ms are heavily invested in AI ,cant wait for the first game to be developed totally by this format ,and its inevitable 3/10 😁
@BrilliantBill procedural generation has been around for decades ,don't think its the same thing.
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