[echelon]

> you could 100x the efficiency of game development.

> It would blow up the game industry, but also spawn a million independent one or two person studios producing some really imaginative niche experiences that could be much, much more expansive (like a AAA title) than the typical indie-studio product.

All video games become Minecraft / Roblox / VRChat. You don't need AAA studios. People can make and share their own games with friends.

Scary realization: YouTube becomes YouGame and Google wins the Internet forever.

[keithwhor]

You’ve just described what Roblox is already doing.

[K0balt]

I haven’t checked on Roblox recently, but afaik it doesn’t really allow complete creative freedom or the ability to have a picture and say “make the world look like this, and make the character textures match the vibe” and have it happen. Don’t they still have a unified world experience or can you really customize things that deeply now?

Can you make a basically indistinguishable copy of other games in Roblox? If so, that’s pretty cool, even without AI integration.

[echelon]

Roblox can't beat Google in AI. Roblox has network effects with users, but on an old school tech platform where users can't magic things into existence.

I've seen Roblox's creative tools, even their GenAI tools, but they're bolted on. It's the steam powered horse problem.