I generally look forward to these little demo fests. While it’s never exactly been a flood of mind blowing games, I usually find a handful of upcoming games that stand out and show some promise. This time around, though, I’m left dispirited by all the slop flooding the lists. Generated slop. Asset-flip slop. The few games that aren’t I only find after wading through pages upon pages of rubbish, and then it’s a crapshoot on if it seems worth downloading. I eventually gave up and don’t have much interest in trying again.

I’ve long been a fan and supporter of the indie scene, understanding that the diamonds that make it worth it take effort to find. But if this is what we have to look forward to, I’m concerned how it’ll fare as the requisite effort to sift through the dregs grows exponentially. Eventually it’s just too much.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    2·
    24 hours ago

    I also not entirely against Ai, if its ethically correct and used wisely without slop. I am looking forward for 2 major improvements in the future:

      1. not important throw away NPCs in RPGs with some (local) Ai support when talking to them, this is already explored, and
      1. multiplayer enemies with advanced Ai acting exactly like humans, with a human vision, reaction and thinking, this would make mulitplayer games possible to play offline without servers, and I even envision that we can download “training” data of other players such as friends or professional celebrities

    Not to mention (as you mentioned already) for development. The problem is, the current industry uses Ai reckless, producing slop, and using stolen training data. Also agreed, please don’t create games their story, main plot and gameplay entirely by Ai…

    • MotoAsh@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      23 hours ago

      But no AI models are ethical because they’ve all been trained on material that they did not have the rights to… Ok ok, I’m sure some niche models have been, but literally none of the major corpo products that are most likely to be used were.