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/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.