western Germany. According to the organizers, around 1,100 exhibitors from 53 countries presented their products during the fair. AFP
“AI is really a turning point,” according to Julien Millet, an AI engineer and founder of United Bits Game studio, who attended the industry fair this week. But the images dreamed up by AI could threaten the work of concept artists, who visualise the video game world before it is created digitally.Attracting tens of thousands of video game lovers every year, Gamescom is an opportunity for studios to showcase their latest creations.
“AI has become an integral part of everyday life” and has a “huge potential to take the gaming industry to the next level”, Play for Fun CEO Fang Han said in a statement.“We use it to generate lines of text… to get some more storytelling into the game,” Linus Gaertig from Ivy Juice Games told AFP at Gamescom.
A case in point was demonstrated by US chipmaker Nvidia when it introduced the world to ACE, a software aimed at developers to create “intelligent in-game characters” using AI.