Blizzard, the game development company just made a statement that they are very excited to be able to use AI for game development, coding, designing, & to monitor the game for cheaters or toxic players.
Blizzards Wants To Use AI
The company seems to be starting with some character designs generated by AI. They have this tool right now which they are calling Blizzard Diffusion.
Blizzard Chief Design Officer, Allen Adham sent an email to the Blizzard staff regarding the benefits AI could bring to the company’s workflow.
“the studio is on the brink of a major evolution in how we build and manage our games”. “Prepare to be amazed,”
Allen Adham
This tool has already been used by the studio to make some concepts, designs of characters and maps and levels. Moreover, Blizzard’s VP of global insights says another tool is being used to fit headpieces to player models in WoW.
But it doesn’t, and Blizzard wants to use the AI models for more than designing. They want to integrate AI in characters, so that the MPC is much more natural than in regular games, like how we saw a person modded AI in NPCs in Skyrim.
And it even doesn’t stop there in the company things of using AI for even being an assistant to the developer in writing codes and inputting data.
They also stated that artificial intelligence will help them with voice, cloning voice acting. Moreover, they will surprisingly do something to do with anti-toxicity inside the game. Somehow blizzard is planning to use artificial intelligence in order to catch toxic and cheating players. I have no idea how that will work, but it is interesting nonetheless.
AI has really taken over the world first from chat boards now all the way in game development. I am excited to see what Blizzard does with this new AI gimmick of theirs.
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