Arstechnica:
Her name is Angelina: she runs on a heavy-duty Mac server and she's building some addictive computer games for you.
Angelina (a tail-recursive acronym for "A Novel Game-Evolving Labrat I've Named ANGELINA") is a project in evolutionary computing by Michael Cook, a PhD candidate at Imperial College in the UK. Angelina generates computer games from scratch. It arrives at a final product by breaking down the important elements of a game into sub-tasks called "species," which together form a whole game. While auto-generating portions of videogames is nothing new to the medium, Angelina expands on the concept to almost fully-automate game development.
The story of how a computer program, developed at Imperial College London, designed and created its own videogame from scratch.
Developers might not be on board, but this AI self-developing games program, is a revolution in the making!
this kinda sucks bro machines are the reason unemployment rates are so high
now if computers make the games for us, they might be better but there will be no need for our developers to work
Though what I read from the article is that the program's AI will search, correct, and add different elements to a title to improve its gameplay (a little less bug infested titles).
It's true what you're saying, though this program is amazing, nonetheless.
We should never arbitrarily restrict technology just to give people jobs. Otherwise let's go shoot every horse on a farm because they're stealing good jobs that could be done by ten humans. While we're at it let's get rid of tractors and cars and phones and trucks and lorries and televisions and pay people to replace them poorly.
FYI the idea is to create a "conversation" between dev and the AI. I doubt the AI would understand the poignancy of "would you kindly" but I bet it'd be able to tell you whether that cover system sucks.
I kind of like the thought of a game devolper auto correct system where it can check for mistakes and glitches in a program.
I read in the GDM a few months ago that there would be a new program that makes it easier to develop games without any programming.
If these programs keep popping up and more people will most likely decide to use them and programming skills will most likely be harder to come by.
I don't agree with these programs, I'm studying how to program and to be honest I think I would feel better knowing I have full control over how my games play, look and feel.
This has been posted before but it's still pretty interesting. Personally I think AI like this will pave the way to a sort of renaissance for creativity. A conversation could exist between a human and an AI allowing for amazing possibilities.
Basically this AI is never going to be able to create moments like Eli Vance's death in half life 2, or the nuke scene in Cod4, but it could make sure that checkpoints are never too far apart, that no weapons are unbalanced or that any levels are simply unplayable. I really think it's the future of game development. How many games get ruined by little flaws despite having a very interesting and talented creative spark at the core? AI like this could stop that from happening and prevent games like Brink from shipping with those few nasty little flaws that cause big gameplay issues.
Oh computer overlords please rule over us...