Generative AI has exploded in reputation this 12 months, with the know-how lastly touchdown in additional fingers and in a useable method. From Roblox to Half Moon, to Unity and Scriptic, the variety of video games corporations aiming to leverage this newest instrument continues to develop.
One such firm, which set itself a goal to make use of generative AI in “all methods potential” at the beginning of 2023, is Homa. Aiming to make the creation course of as environment friendly as potential, the Homa Lab platform has been empowered with new AI options, and according to this dedication, the corporate has now held its first Inside Gen AI Hackathon to see what they might give you.
10 tasks had been undertaken by 10 Homa groups, every having 48 hours to innovate on new tasks with the goal of selling collaboration and streamlining future creation.
Belongings and concepts
The ten generative AI instruments developed within the Recreation Jam-esque occasion had been voted on by all workforce members all through the corporate, with rankings streamed in actual time.
The outcomes? A system for creating speaking 3D Avatars got here out on prime. This AI instrument was conceived to generate variable video adverts with avatars by way of textual content prompts. These prompts allow completely different voices, languages and animations, permitting a variety of distinctive adverts to be made in a brief period of time.
3DGenie got here in second, once more utilizing textual content prompts to create ready-to-use 3D sport belongings, saving a major quantity of growth time.
Concept Generator got here third, a instrument utilizing information from Homa Lab to counsel new concepts for themes and video games based mostly on present tendencies and profitable titles.
“Generative AI has been an enormous precedence for us at Homa this 12 months, with our prime administration encouraging every of our groups to leverage its potential. However for us, it’s about extra than simply utilizing already present instruments for us. We need to create them,” Homa said in a weblog submit.
Earlier this 12 months we spoke with Roblox’s Stefano Corazza on generative AI’s utility, which he believes has seen a “promising begin” however is barely simply starting.
