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Michael in Drayton, South Carolina asked: “Do you think Ai will take over creating video games in the future?”
Michael, some day in the far off future, who knows? In the near term, no.
Game development these days relies on a series of components that have to work with each other, from assets like images and audio files, to 3D engines like Godot and Unreal.
Todays Ai barely produces workable code, it can only do the basic things and what it pumps out is not of very good quality and its not ideal for longer term maintenance. It is mostly used to create the scaffolding that is always more or less the same.
It also cant effectively create architectures, so it cant help design the way the tools needed for the job have to interact with each other to deliver the product with the efficiency required.
At the moment, Ai is not really fit to take over any coding but the most basic copy and paste style tasks. Game development is still a fairly long way off.
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