After showing off his latest project, the epic game Masters of Albion, at the Gamescom Opening Night Live, veteran developer Peter Molyneux has returned to our lives, and now he’s been asked how he thinks the gaming industry might change and evolve over the next few decades. His answer? More Hollywood adaptations, and artificial intelligence.
Eurogamer asked the controversial developer, who was at the heart of Fable and has since made a number of other things that have often proved polarising or bizarre, what he and a number of other industry figures think the world of video games will look like in 25 years’ time.
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“AI is going to be a real game changer,” Molyneux responded. “One day, AI will be used to create large parts of games – AI-generated characters, animations, dialogue, voiceovers. AI will be able to solve a lot of problems.”
He added that he thinks AI will “allow anyone to make games,” explaining: “For example, you could create a game with a prompt like ‘make a battle royale game set on a pirate ship’ and your AI would do it for you.” Yeah, I know, that’s definitely Peter Molyneux talking.
He also said he believes Hollywood “will continue to be fascinated by games and keep seeking more game stories and narratives,” a trend that has become very apparent after the success of Amazon’s Fallout TV series, The Last of Us, and the Super Mario movie.
Molyneux isn’t the only developer to have an answer to the question of AI, with Tango Gameworks founder Shinji Mikami saying he believes AI “is going to become more important and become a more prominent element in game development and game creation.”
“You can put that into a game and have the AI decide for itself, ‘Okay, what would this character think? How would this character talk? How would he react to this situation?'” he said. “In terms of background, there’s not a lot that can be changed, but things like animation could be completely AI-generated in 25 years. So I think the background and the actual creation of the animation is going to be much more important than it is today. That’s one of the things that’s a little daunting.”
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