AI was everywhere at gaming’s big developer conference — except the games

AI was everyplace astatine the GDC Festival of Gaming this year. Vendors astatine the lawsuit pitched generative AI tools for things similar making AI-driven NPCs and even full games from a chat box. On the amusement floor, I spent 10 minutes playing a demo of a pixel-art phantasy satellite generated by Tencent's AI tools. In a briefing with Razer, I watched an AI adjunct for QA automatically log issues successful a shooter game. And determination were many talks astir AI, including a standing-room lone presentation by Google DeepMind researchers astir playable AI-generated spaces.

But determination was 1 cardinal spot wherever AI was missing: the games themselves. Of the galore developers I s …

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