I don’t make computer games with AI, but I do create tabletop roleplaying adventures on a regular basis. I use AI for a lot of it. You have no idea what the workflow is. It’s not hell, it’s an enormous boon.
Art, obviously. I generate lots of illustrations of the characters and other things they encounter. These days image generators have become good enough that I usually just have to describe things well in the prompt and get usable results, but if I need to edit the images to get them closer to what I need I run ComfyUI locally and have lots of models for that as well.
I use producer.ai to generate custom music. Sometimes it’s diagetic - in the previous campaign the party encountered an NPC that loved to sing about important plot developments in-universe - but mostly it’s either background soundscape or supplementary songs (consider them like “theme music” that plays during the intro or credits). Producer.ai closed down new subscriptions a while back but I’ve also used Udio and Suno and they’re both good too.
I record the sessions and transcribe them using WhisperX. I feed the transcripts into NotebookLM and have it generate summaries and notes about the events of each session. It can also generate “overview” videos that work great as a 5-minute catch-up players can watch before the session if they’ve forgotten what happened last time.
Since NotebookLM has all my campaign notes in it as source documents, as well as PDFs of the rulebooks, it’s great for quickly whipping up stats for creatures when the players do something unexpected. It’s also been a good brainstorming assistant, and it “knows” the names of every random little NPC or village we’ve seen along the way.
I’ve been experimenting with the Wan2.2 video model lately. It’s not quite up to snuff for generating videos of meaningful length, but it’s still pretty neat to be able to put a character portrait in and have a 5-second snippet of them just “being alive.” I think it’ll be a neat addition to having static portraits.
Aside from producer.ai, all of these tools are free. Though the WhisperX transcription program I use is a custom Python script, I’m not sure what would be a good solution for a non-programmer to spin up.
Edit: Downvoting me isn’t making any of these tools less useful.
The haters are so mad you got the robot to do some of the things it’s for. Anything beyond ‘I click the button and it draws a pretty lady! I’m a artist!’ really fucks with their absolutism. That’s a threat to ingroup solidarity for the ones who’ve made opposition part of their identity.
Whoa this is the next level DMing. Before, to get the same result, you better have a whole team writing and producing content. You have recaps, illustrations and music for a TTRPG, yes it’s still a ton of manual work but looking at how fast things are moving, it wouldn’t surprise me if this is an app in a few years and everyone gets this amazing experience.
You are going to get downvoted, but you’re right. AI doesn’t need to be used for every part of the entire development process for it to be “made with the help of AI”. There are certain parts of the workflow that I’m sure is already being done regularly with AI, for example commenting code.
Mindlessly feeding prompts into chatgpt for the entirety of the core code or art would be terrible.
I haven’t been getting downvoted as much as I used to these days, at least. I think more people have started to actually experiment with AI and see what it’s good at, and are finding it to be not the Great Satan that popular opinion paints it as.
For sure, the popular opinion on reddit/Lemmy skews towards absolutely self-hosting everything they can, and multi-trillion dollar tech companies controlling AI skews the opinions of the technology negative. I have a BIL who runs self-hosted AI though (requiring 2 x 4090s in series for his use-case), so it can be done. The tech is only as shit as the user allows it to be (environmental concerns, obviously its pretty objectively shit)
I do much of my image work with local models, at least when it comes to trying to get something specific. All audio transcription is done with a local model, and a lot of the summarization and categorization of those transcripts is also local models.
The comment where I explained this all got downvoted too, though, so yeah. Still a lot of “AI=bad” regardless of self-hosted or not.
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I don’t make computer games with AI, but I do create tabletop roleplaying adventures on a regular basis. I use AI for a lot of it. You have no idea what the workflow is. It’s not hell, it’s an enormous boon.
Those poor players lol
They have every opportunity to tell me they’re not liking what I run. Turns out I know them better than you do.
He who has never tasted bread would be contented by porridge.
We’ve been playing together for ~20 years, since long before there were any AI tools.
Once again you’re making some wildly inaccurate assumptions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
You think I have them captive somehow? Your assumptions are getting weirder and weirder.
We all have other groups we play with too, this is just the “core” group that’s been together longest.
Gross.
So what’s your process and how is it a boon?
Major applications I use AI for:
I’ve been experimenting with the Wan2.2 video model lately. It’s not quite up to snuff for generating videos of meaningful length, but it’s still pretty neat to be able to put a character portrait in and have a 5-second snippet of them just “being alive.” I think it’ll be a neat addition to having static portraits.
Aside from producer.ai, all of these tools are free. Though the WhisperX transcription program I use is a custom Python script, I’m not sure what would be a good solution for a non-programmer to spin up.
Edit: Downvoting me isn’t making any of these tools less useful.
The haters are so mad you got the robot to do some of the things it’s for. Anything beyond ‘I click the button and it draws a pretty lady! I’m a artist!’ really fucks with their absolutism. That’s a threat to ingroup solidarity for the ones who’ve made opposition part of their identity.
Whoa this is the next level DMing. Before, to get the same result, you better have a whole team writing and producing content. You have recaps, illustrations and music for a TTRPG, yes it’s still a ton of manual work but looking at how fast things are moving, it wouldn’t surprise me if this is an app in a few years and everyone gets this amazing experience.
You are going to get downvoted, but you’re right. AI doesn’t need to be used for every part of the entire development process for it to be “made with the help of AI”. There are certain parts of the workflow that I’m sure is already being done regularly with AI, for example commenting code.
Mindlessly feeding prompts into chatgpt for the entirety of the core code or art would be terrible.
I haven’t been getting downvoted as much as I used to these days, at least. I think more people have started to actually experiment with AI and see what it’s good at, and are finding it to be not the Great Satan that popular opinion paints it as.
For sure, the popular opinion on reddit/Lemmy skews towards absolutely self-hosting everything they can, and multi-trillion dollar tech companies controlling AI skews the opinions of the technology negative. I have a BIL who runs self-hosted AI though (requiring 2 x 4090s in series for his use-case), so it can be done. The tech is only as shit as the user allows it to be (environmental concerns, obviously its pretty objectively shit)
I do much of my image work with local models, at least when it comes to trying to get something specific. All audio transcription is done with a local model, and a lot of the summarization and categorization of those transcripts is also local models.
The comment where I explained this all got downvoted too, though, so yeah. Still a lot of “AI=bad” regardless of self-hosted or not.