Dead Space creator and Sledgehammer Games co-founder Glen Schofield has revealed he’s ‘100 percent’ behind the use of AI in the games industry.
Speaking the The Games Business, Schofield , who has the likes of Call of Duty, Legacy of Kain and Gex 3D on his resume, said he’s ‘looking forward’ to making another game, but highlighted that when it comes to AI to ‘just work with it’.
“AI is kicking in, and by the end of the game there will probably be enough AI to save even more money,” the Dead Space lead said. “I don’t know. Man, I am 100 percent behind [AI] because I have been there for a lot of these.
“I was there for the beginning of the internet, and they were like ‘yeah, the internet’… website, everybody’s going to have a website and now everybody does. So, AI is coming…it’s here, just work with it.”
Schofield revealed he was a ‘big fan’ of Midjourney, a popular generative art tool, in helping him create art and augment his creative process, claiming it ‘raises the bar’ and lets him dig ‘really, really, deep’.
“I remember when Photoshop was coming out. Now anybody who did airbrush or anything like that, they were out of work, right? Because computers are going to make it faster. I know how to undo. I now could add airbrush techniques within seconds and all that… but everything just got more complicated.
“I remember when motion capture was going to take jobs away. I look at animation departments now, it could be 30 people. It always raises the bar. It’s raising it now for me when I’m coming up with ideas and worlds.”
He added: “I dig really, really, really deep with AI stuff.”
Schofield, who is set to headline the business area conference at Gamescom Asia in Thailand, also revealed he’s not sure yet what jobs AI will end up creating for those in the games industry. “I wish I could predict what jobs [will come out of it]. I hear people going we’re going to want prompt engineers,” he said. “And we probably will.”
Generative AI has been the most controversial form of artificial intelligence in reason years due to the use of copyrighted materials needed to train the technology. Numerous lawsuits have been started over the rise of generative AI with major corporations including Disney citing theft of copyrighted materials and plagiarism as key issues with modern AI tools.
Additionally, there has been heavy pushback from gamers against the use of generative AI in video games. Titles like Call of Duty have been criticised for using tools like Midjourney for paid in-game skins and loading screens with many lambasting the use of these tools as ‘lazy’, especially when users are charged for non-human work.
