COLOGNE, Aug 27 — From generating story lines to coding entire games to turning ideas into animation, artificial intelligence is front and centre at Gamescom, one of the video game industry’s biggest fairs.
Responsive non-playable characters or the automatic generation of images, code and game scenarios are among the possible uses for developers using AI. Club Koala from the Singaporean studio Play for Fun offers players the chance to “create their own dream world, a personalised paradise island with unique characters” generated using AI.
“ makes the game more unpredictable and so the game feels more real,” said Sarah Brin of Kythera AI, which uses the technology to generate character movements.