“The Debut of a Completely AI-Created Video Game Unleashes Bizarre Enjoyment”
“The First Entirely AI-Generated Video Game Is Insanely Weird and Fun”
“Well, it’s beautiful. But also kind of…wow, awful? No, more like beautiful-awful. And it’s definitely making people stop and ask, ‘Is this what AI thinks a video game should be?'”
Welcome to the enigmatic, bewildering yet oddly intriguing world of artificial intelligence (AI) developed video games. We’re talking about something so oddly familiar, it feels like the uncanny valley of gaming, where robots meet recreation.
Riding front and center on this strange digital wave is an exceptional piece of AI masterpiece, if we may call it so – a game. The first-ever full-fledged AI-developed video game. It’s what every hardcore gamer ever secretly fantasized and dreaded in the same breath. It’s weird. It’s fun. And it’s absolutely bizarre.
Let’s just say, it’s like alien art and you are the unwitting museum visitor standing in front of the exhibit, wondering where on Earth (or not) did it come from.
In this video game or should we say vivid-digital-browser-based-art-piece, you play ‘Struggling Blob’-blurgh. You hop around, and explode (or don’t). It’s really hard to put a finger on it but in a very unusual, twisted, digital Picasso way, it’s good, and if we dare say, even engrossing! Oh, and don’t forget that uncanny resemblance to SNES Mario.
Here’s fun fact – this game wasn’t designed by a person. It wasn’t designed by a group of people. This game was “dreamed up” – yeah that’s right – by an AI. Spontaneously, this nameless AI took abstract concepts and somehow pieced together an entity that’s a venture into the unknown realms of human comprehension.
The game also boasts a frenetic soundtrack. ‘A set of random noises’ some might argue at the first listen, but slowly but surely, you realize the chaotic cacophony is, in fact, keeping you ‘in the zone’, or should we say ‘in the blob’.
So, are we ready to let AI takeover the gaming mantle? Well, it looks like our mechanical overlords are still fine-tuning their creative juice dispensers, and we still hold the upper joystick. But, with the advent of things like this little blob’s playground, who knows where we could end up?
It is a wild, weird world out there pals, and it seems like AI is more than ready to take us for a fascinatingly befuddling ride. Buckle up!