David Gaider, former BioWare writer, dragon age In the series, we shared our thoughts on using AI in the creation of video games. He believes that while developers keep trying, they won’t come up with really great quests or stories.
Dragon Age: Origins (Image: DanaDuchy)
On May 30, Gaider shared a link to a Guardian article on AI’s potential for writing game characters and dialogue. He noted that BioWare has also experimented with procedurally-generated narratives, but the team never achieved at least somewhat acceptable results.
“Even though the procedural lines were written by a human hand, the end result after assembling them was … found to be lackluster every time. It had no soul,” Gaider noted.
oh yeah The dream of procedural content generation. Even BioWare has repeated this several times. “What if every conversation didn’t have to be custom made?” Along with the procedural quests, the dialogue is procedurally crafted, with unlimited playtime! https://t.co/iTLAFgRDUk
— David Gaider (@davidgaider) May 29, 2023
Gaider believes the main problem is that procedural content generation only produces “things that look like quests.” In fact, it all comes down to a typical MMO fetch quest, nothing narratively unique or exciting.
“Is that what the players really want? Superficial content that just covers the bases and doesn’t go much further, to keep them playing?” Gaider wrote. “No, some teams will assume AI can do better. It can act like a human DM, creating deep, bespoke narratives on the fly.”
For this reason, the former BioWare writer believes that such an AI would be able to generate imitations of real stories, as they could only create something from pieces of content that were already stored. “But that doesn’t stop many development teams from thinking they should be able to do more, and they’re going to fail,” said Gaidar.
Indeed, yes, yes, we are already seeing the response, “But the technology is just getting started!” See, when AI can successfully replace the intuition and soul of real humans, it will hardly be a problem for us to have them make games, right?
— David Gaider (@davidgaider) May 29, 2023
Finally, Gaider concluded that game developers will continue to explore uses for AI. This would waste a lot of effort. ”
David Gaider joined BioWare in 1999, working as a writer and senior narrative designer. Baldur’s Gate II, Star wars: Knights of the Old Republicand neverwinter nights. He also served as lead his writer for the Dragon series until he left the studio in 2016.
Gaider also worked for two years at Beamdog, a company founded by two BioWare veterans, Trent Oster and Cameron Tofer. Acquired by the Embracer Group last year, the studio now houses Baldur’s Gate, Planescape: Tormentand Neverwinter Nights.
In 2018, Gaider co-founded Summerfall Studios and is currently preparing to launch his debut game, Role-Playing Musical. stray god.
