New Gamer Nation was quite excited to get their hands on a demo of the newly Kickstarted sequel by Larian Studios at PAX Prime this year. After managing to screw up the flow of the carefully arranged demo and subtly irritating Swen Vincke, CEO of Larian Studios (once again thanks to their poor dialogue choices), they got the chance to ask him some questions about Kickstarter, meshing emergent gameplay with traditional narrative storytelling, and the additions to the formula.
"Treat your players as you would like to be treated, that's it," Vincke says when asked about how to maintain trust with a game's community.
Larian Studios' CEO Swen Vincke recently appeared in an interview and clarified that he does not see GenAI as a replacement for developers.
If you're hiring less writers to write the dialogue that AI writes instead...isn't that replacing writers?
Exactly he doesn't see it replacing devs... Immediately mentions replacing writers hahaha
It also means the same amount of writers can now produce more dialogues with the same amount of budgets, game development doesn't have infinite budget, AI when used correctly, can help generate some dialogues, and then still need writers to have another pass through to make sure those make sense in the game world.
Not really, its a different role. Now you're scripting ai on how they should respond, keywords, language, etc
If anything, you'll need to be a good script writer to direct ai npcs.
Its a new field for them!
This is the thing. First AI will be used to get rid of all the low level repetitive task and as it evolves it will be used to get rid of more people.
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