Rash of New Games Makes Me Wonder

[CoolDataTx1]

In the last month there seems to be a massive spike in new "indie" games on the home page. Just taking a look at a couple they are from developers who have published no other games (or a rash of lookalikes) and the games almost seem like a hodgepodge of popular gaming trends like loot, rpg, survival. I really wonder how many of these are the results of someone asking AI to generate a game based upon some criteria and then publishing it to Steam.

It's really hard to find games that are actually Indie by a company that may be releasing their first game. If you look carefully at some of them they do look like somebody actually took some effort but many just look like random AI chatter. Even the names don't make sense in many cases. I'm pretty much ignoring everything that is recommended on the home page these days. It's unfortunate for the real Indie devs out there but there is simply too many games being published rapidly to bother filtering through them all. Even the "reviews" cannot be trusted as it is pretty easy to create dummy accounts and let them "buy" your game so they can post reviews.

The state of game development has really changed and as a consumer I'm less likely to pay attention to unknown games. It's going to be a tough time for indie devs this year I think.

[Brian9824]

Examples? I mean you can't just ask AI to make a game. it can help with some stuff but its more complicated then that. Its been tough for indie games for like the last 5 years as there is a TON of them available.

[xBCxRangers]

I think the best thing going are these Indie Games. I'm not talking about those two dimensional 80's era looking games, but some of these great ideas smaller devs have, that don't really get mass market appeal.

When you mentioned this, i went to the store, and saw a game "Trans Siberian Railway Simulator". Well, a game like that is up my alley. But my PC will never play it.

But the greatest part about it, is that they come to Xbox. And Xbox seems to have good relations with these Indie Devs.

And so even for a console player like me, Steam is a huge asset, in having these small developers get a chance here, and then bring it over there. Great stuff.

As far as this "AI" argument, it's something that at my age, and lack of tech knowledge will ever understand. Like, how can "AI" put a game on the market? Don' ask me.

[Cathulhu]

Simple, it can't.
AI is not even remotely at the level where it could create a game. It can't even draw hands properly.

Not to mention that all AI models need to be trained and lack any kind of creativity, they just repeat what was put into the model.

Additionally, Valve has put severe restrictions regarding games with AI content. They are not banned, but there are severe hurdles the developer has to get over to get their game released.

[Start_Running]

CoolDataTx1 lähetti viestin:

In the last month there seems to be a massive spike in new "indie" games on the home page. Just taking a look at a couple they are from developers who have published no other games (or a rash of lookalikes) and the games almost seem like a hodgepodge of popular gaming trends like loot, rpg, survival. I really wonder how many of these are the results of someone asking AI to generate a game based upon some criteria and then publishing it to Steam.

This has literally always been the case m8.
I mean anyone remember what the new releases looked like after tThe first FNAF game?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Over 13k games had been added to Steam in 2023 alone. This is nothing.