After coming back into our lives by showcasing his latest project, the god game Masters of Albion, at Gamescom Opening Night Live, veteran developer Peter Molyneux was asked what changes and evolutions he saw coming to gaming over the next few decades. His answer? More Hollywood adaptations and, well, AI.
The controversial creator, who was once a key figure in Fable and has since done several other things that are often considered controversial or bizarre, was asked – like many other industry figures – by Eurogamer where he thinks the world of video games will look like in 25 years.
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“AI is truly going to be a game-changer,” Molyneux said in his response. “There will come a time when AI will be used to create huge parts of the game — AI-generated characters, animations, dialogue, VO, there are so many things that AI will be able to handle.”
He added that he thinks AI will “enable anyone to make games,” explaining, “You’ll be able to, for example, make a game with a single command, like ‘Make a battle royale game set on a pirate ship,’ and your AI will go and make it for you.” Yes, I know, that’s definitely very Peter Molyneux-esque.
He also said that he thinks Hollywood will “continue to be fascinated by games and want to create more stories and narratives around games,” a trend that has become pretty obvious following the massive successes of things like Amazon’s Fallout TV Show, The Last of Us, and the Super Mario movie.
Molyneux wasn’t the only developer to respond with reference to AI. Tango Gameworks founder Shinji Mikami stated that he believes it “will become a much more important and far more important part of game development and creation.”
“You’ll be able to put that in the game and let the AI decide for itself, ‘Okay, so this character, how is this character going to think? How is this character going to talk? How is this character going to react in this situation?’” he said. “There’s not a lot that can be changed in terms of backgrounds, but animations and things like that could be, 25 years from now, completely AI-generated. And so, the importance of creating backgrounds and actual animations, I feel like there’s going to be a much bigger gap than there is now. That’s one of the things that’s a little bit daunting.”
How do these answers make you feel about the future of our entertaining medium and what do you think it will bring? Let us know below.
