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2023 Case file

AI-native game development thesis

Published essay

My March 2023 essay explored how generative AI could fit into game development, from dialogue and assets to animation and tools inside the editor.

My role
Author and product technologist
Period
2023
Bands
Games · Applied AI
Conceptual game world assembling from environments, animation rigs, narrative paths and sound
Editorial illustration of the AI game-development ideas discussed in the essay.
Project briefTHE THESIS

Where AI could fit into game development.

In March 2023, I wrote about where AI might fit into game development. I looked at language models for dialogue, generated characters and environments, NeRF-based scene capture, animation, adaptive music, and assistants inside game editors.

The essay was an exploration of possible tools, not a report of a shipped platform. The question I keep coming back to is how a developer could revise a generated asset and carry it into the rest of a game without losing control of the result. My later browser experiments have given me more ways to test those ideas.