Mark Mario
@markmario77
· Oct 12
Can you make real video games using Google's AI?You can generate playable games with Google's AI Playground, but the results are overwhelmingly sloppy, broken, and barely functional.What happened: A WIRED reporter spent a full day in October 2024 churning out games using Google's AI Playground, only to produce spectacularly terrible results. The AI-generated titles were riddled with glitches, broken mechanics, and bizarre logic errors, landing firmly in the "slop mines" of game development. It turns out prompting an AI to design coherent gameplay is still a losing battle.Key numbers: 1 full day spent generating AI games2024 year of the AI Playground experiment0 actually good games producedWhy it matters: As tech giants push AI as a democratizing creative tool, the reality shows that automated game design still lacks the logic and pacing required for a playable experience. It exposes the limits of current AI when tasked with complex, rules-based interactive systems.Bottom line: AI can write your code, but it still can't make your game fun.
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