As reported by VideoGameChronicle, Sq. Enix confirmed at a latest press occasion that their upcoming stay service recreation, Foamstars, makes use of some property generated by AI. This follows a New Yr’s letter from the corporate’s president, Takashi Kiryu, that said the corporate would extra aggressively pursue using the expertise.

VGC requested Foamstars producer Kosuke Okatani about AI, who elaborated on the sport’s utilization of it. In keeping with him, a lot of the recreation was created by people, however “0.01% and even much less” was generated by Midjourney. Particularly, as Sq. later clarified to VGC, the property that have been created by generative AI are in-game album covers for the sport’s music tracks.

Okatani defined: “On this occasion, we experimented with Midjourney utilizing easy prompts to provide summary pictures. We beloved what was created and used them as the ultimate album covers gamers will see within the recreation. All the things else was created completely by our improvement staff.”

The utilization of generative AI has been creeping in from all angles regardless of a wide range of completely different issues. Amongst these are worries about swiftly generated video games flooding the market and squeezing out small builders, the contraction of job alternatives inside the business, the straight-up theft that’s central to implementations of the expertise, and the influence on the setting from the excessive vitality necessities. It’s a posh topic.

Nevertheless, it does remind me that Splatoon, a recreation that Foamstars appears to be attempting laborious to be, additionally does album art work for its songs. Besides these are made by actual human artists. And it’s simply humorous to me how this endeavor might be spinoff and but nonetheless reduce corners within the course of. It’s what we get to look ahead to.

Foamstars is releasing on PS4 and PS5 on February 6, 2024.