Defining project goal and scope
We had a project kickoff meeting to define project goal and scope. Basic requirements for the projects were as following:
To design and develop a playable game using Generative AI creative tools to inform what and how the team make the demo, while also incorporating generative AI into the gameplay experience.
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To have prototypes and documentation that highlight the processes and results.
It was a very open ended project with numerous possibilities and uncertainty. Thus, we decided to do a week game jam before we lock down on the direction to examine our plan and to play more with the generative AI tools.
For now we set our expected goal and deliverable as following :
Project Goal:
To explore and create an efficient game development pipeline to successfully leverage generative AI as a game development tool.
Project Deliverable:
1. Pipeline design by week 3
2. A game design document by week 5
3. A game demo by week 12
4. Production journal
(possibly turned into the SIGGRAPH Art Paper of similar formats)
Game jam
Our 1 week Game jam started. There were mainly 2 questions we would like to figure out through this exploration.
- How effectively current Gen. AI tools can help game developers?
- Could the game design / creative decision be driven by Gen. AI?
+ We get to familiarize ourselves with the concept & usage of Gen. AI
Therefore decided to involve the usage of Gen. AI into our pipeline as much as possible while documenting the prompt and result, the time cost each task took with Gen. AI, expected time cost when manually done, and other qualitative observation.
