Artificial intelligence is a tool that sooner or later would give a lot to talk about because of the way in which it would impact the development of video games. Some companies are already taking advantage of it and the latest to make it known is Blizzard Entertainment, which seeks to use it to help make games.
“Prepare to be surprised, we are one step away from a great evolution in how we make and manage our games,” Blizzard design chief Allen Adham told company employees in an email he had access to. The New York Times (via Kotaku).
According to the details, the creative explained that the tool is called Blizzard Diffusion, in clear reference to one of the most popular artificial intelligence image creation tools today: Stable Diffusion.
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Blizzard Diffusion will be able to create NPCs and levels
The interesting thing is that the creative mentions that thanks to these efforts in artificial intelligence, Blizzard will benefit at the development level, since the tool would be able to “generate concept art” basically do some of the creative task that a concept artist would normally do. .
It was also revealed that Blizzard is exploring more opportunities offered by artificial intelligence to take advantage of it in areas such as NPCs, procedurally assisted level design, “voice cloning”, game code, and anti-toxicity.
Blizzard has already been working on artificial intelligence for some time. In fact, it is mentioned that some implementations of this technology have been “scrapped” because “the tool takes a lot of the artist’s time to be effective”.
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