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> one can imagine a near future where text prompts are enough to create a fun new game

Sit down and write down a text prompt for a "fun new game". You can start with something relatively simple like a Mario-like platformer.

By page 300, when you're about halfway through describing what you mean, you might understand why this is wishful thinking



If it can be trained on (many) existing games, then it might work similarly to how you don't need to describe every possible detail of a generated image in order to get something that looks like what you're asking for (and looks like a plausible image for the underspecified parts).


Things that might work plausible in a static image will not look plausible when things are moving, especially in the game.

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41376722

Also: define "fun" and "new" in a "simple text prompt". Current image generators suck at properly reflecting what you want exactly, because they regurgitate existing things and styles.




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