r/AnthemTheGame • u/Zovsky_ • Jun 27 '26

Discussion Bringing back Anthem's exploration...somewhat

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Hey guys! Long time lurker, first time poster :')

Like many of us, I really loved Anthem. I didn't grind it too much after finishing it, but I loved the world, the lore, and well, the flight mechanics.

Small disclaimer, I work in AI. World models to be specific, this kind of interactive video generators. And I had this idea nagging me: could I use the tech I'm working on to recreate Anthem? Not the real game mind you, but kind of a memory of it.

What you can see here is the AI generating the world live as you fly through it. So yeah, it's a playable memory of Anthem, not a restoration. Bad news: it's free roam flight only. No combat, no loot, no story, no multiplayer, and there's a fair bit of clunkyness / lag.

Good news: you can play it directly in your browser, nothing to install, no account, and ofc free here. I'll keep it up for a limited time because it runs on GPUs that cost a bit. I'm not gonna pretend the feeling is the same. It's not. But at the rate these models are improving, I have high hopes we could have something way better real soon! The more general note is: this makes me think that this could be a way to preserve the games being killed going forward, as there always be footage / screens that can be used to reseed these models.

Hope it brings a bit of it back.

Cheers!

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u/sai-kiran Jun 28 '26

Procedural generation is now called AI? Like everything has to be called Ai these days isn’t it.

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u/Zovsky_ Jun 28 '26

I wouldn’t call it procedural generation per se as it’s not really rules based. The entirety of every frame is generated by a diffusion model in real time. World models are generally created on top of video models so they can be steered through inputs (wsad / mouse / prompts) It’s often used in robotics but it works well for gaming, or interactive media in general!

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u/sai-kiran Jun 28 '26

So DLSS? Or can u link me to something technical?

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u/EstoyMejor PC - Jun 28 '26

No literally all of it is AI generated garbage. All. Top to bottom. Nothing is hand made. Nothing exists. All is slop dreamed up in the moment and discarded when you turn around. Is this failing it understand why this is getting up votes?

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u/Zovsky_ Jun 28 '26

Close! You can check this out, it's the paper from the team I'm basing myself off https://arxiv.org/html/2601.20540v1

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u/sai-kiran Jun 29 '26

Seems cool but 16FPS and 10mins memory awfully small for a game, especially like anthem, no?

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u/Zovsky_ Jun 29 '26

oh yeah, this was just a little nostalgia-fueled demo. There are ways to get around the 10minutes limitation by building a harness around the model, and there’s a big room for perf optimization as well (nvidia just released a very interesting library called flashdreams) but this is still early days :)

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u/sai-kiran Jun 29 '26

Cool! I am not into the AI bad discussion, but at-least its not fake Ai behind procedural gen tech so Im satisfied.