Firmament is a new steampunk VR adventure experience from the creators of Myst and Obduction.
Kotaku - Cyan, the studio behind Myst and Riven, has for the last few years been funding its games via Kickstarter. That’s how 2016's Obduction was made, and it’s also how 2023's Firmament—with more than a little help from machines this time—was developed as well.
I reached out to Cyan and asked them specifically about the level of human involvement in the game’s narration and lore texts (newspapers, letters, etc). Their response:
“AI Assisted Content” listed in the credits for Firmament is, well, exactly that. It is content of which its final state you see it as in the game as was assisted, not wholly created, by services built on what many refer to as “AI” that Cyan staff made use of.
For example, all voice acting content was performed by an actual human being 100% of the time (which may have been obvious already if you have listened to it, especially considering the performance cadence and content — we can’t imagine what it would be like if wholly machine generated, to your question) but the final performance timbre, pitch, and tone was modified with one of these services, with the performer’s consent. Hopefully that clarifies things more and provides a good example of what we mean by “AI Assisted Content”.
"Firmament managed to accomplish so much with what little it had to work with." Sirus Gaming
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Did they mention ravenlock? More excited for that than Redfall honestly. Definitely getting age of wonders 4
I won't be playing Diablo till it goes on sale a year later for cheap. I only play it to watch the story in one playthrough then quit.
I don't wait for games to go on sale. I buy games that I'm interested to play on day one of release.
@elda I don't have much respect for the company in this particular case so buying at full price doesn't feel right
