GamePrompt had put me out of a job. I used to be a game designer. Now it is possible for anyone to speak a prompt into their phone, and in minutes be playing a fully AAA quality game of that prompt on their phone, with ads of course. AAA still owned the IPs and so while AI built games were now the norm, it was now my job to go into the generated game and "clean up" broken functionality and gameplay. I spent most of my time pleading for certain keywords to be put into the generation prompts to make my life easier (Endian One seemed to make things work better). I would spend hours going through thousands of lines of machine generated code, which often ended nowhere and with many functions completely blank. Having remembered the days of human authored game code, it didn't seem much different.
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hi there. i'm inbtwn. nice to meet ya!
i sometimes post about Things, mostly niche internet things like youtube videos, webcomics, etc. but i also reblog (rebug) a LOT of cool things so uhhh be warned
in reply to @hellojed's post:
ok tangent but how do I make the [read more] prompt show up correctly
you have to have a blank line before and after the --- alone on a line where you want the read more to go
some paragraph
---
another paragraph
I have that but it seems to show up as "read more" with a line, but it doesn't show up as a clickable link that opens up the rest of the document
it looks like you might have a space on the line before the three dashes, for some reason it's important that it is only and exactly 3 dashes. the preview looks bugged if there's a space, seems like
this came out really good what prompt did you use to get it not to mention [cw: competitor brand]
to come back from the tangent i replied on and make it a secant, the story was lovely and reminds me of other excellent works about the near future, like unauthorized bread :3
I was watching vinesauce play the DNF restoration after reading this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM_2djilBV4
And while I was thinking how 'prompt generated' it feels, like, vinny remarks how an elevator moves and you think you have to do something with it but no you have to trek back to the beginning of the level instead. Next thing he mentions is "I wonder how Tom Jones is doing".
The DNF restoration project reminds me of what you describe in the story too, like, people making some random garbage playable.
You wrote this right after watching that video?
no but thats wild, I guess tom jones is on everyone's mind these days
A hopeful thought: what if the emergence and inevitable domination of ML-generated art triggers a mass exodus of both artists and art appreciators from the internet back into physical spaces trading physical media? Withold our art and music and writing from the web like a labor strike, starve out the AI overlords, while burning CDs and photocopying zines to trade at meet-ups at your local library's multi-purpose room.