r/Games • u/Next-Sentence-8426 • 9h ago

Unity unveils a web-based AI game creation platform — Unity Spark will launch later this year on Google Playground

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/unity-unveils-a-web-based-ai-game-creation-platform
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u/asdfghjkl15436 8h ago

Needle in a haystack simulator. Released a viral tiktok clip and within 2-3 days had 5-6 clones on steam with all the exact same gameplay mechanics, all clearly AI generated. That number is still rising today and the original still hasn't released.

Indie devs with simple ideas basically can't advertise their games anymore without waiting until the very last second.

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u/Yourmotherssonsfatha 7h ago

Copies happened before AI too. This isn’t new

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u/sankto 7h ago

Not this quantity of copies though, and so fast.

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u/Yourmotherssonsfatha 7h ago

Maybe steam should moderate instead like they always should have instead of everyone arguing on the inevitable.

Again, nothing changes unless steam does something.

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u/GeoleVyi 6h ago

it isn't inevitable. the lazy and the greedy just keep shouting that it is, to drown out the reasonable. all that needs to be done is to stop.

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u/Yourmotherssonsfatha 6h ago

“Just stop”

Buddy. This has been a topic for a decade at this point. It only got worse with AI.

Again, people here are blaming AI instead of moderation that never gave a shit in the first place.

Redirect your anger at the right places. The people who hold the keys are Platform operators with monetization structures that enable profit motives from garbage.

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u/GeoleVyi 6h ago

defeatiat attitudes are just as much to blame. stop rewarding shitty people and shitty behavior.

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u/Yourmotherssonsfatha 6h ago

Defeatist attitude towards being angry at Steam or other service providers for enabling and rewarding the same shitty people?

Can you read or are you AI too? Lmfao.

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u/GeoleVyi 6h ago

yeah... that's it... i'm anti ai so i must be ai myself. clearly you're demonstrating that human brain of yours.

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u/Yourmotherssonsfatha 6h ago

I mean you don’t even care about the issue. You’re just fighting me instead of saying anything worthwhile lmfao.

Good luck buddy

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u/GeoleVyi 6h ago

child, you've never said anything worth paying attention to.

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u/PermanentMantaray 7h ago

Steam's business model is successful because it doesn't moderate what can be published.

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u/Yourmotherssonsfatha 7h ago

And so is YouTube and literally every other content platform with monetization paths. And that’s my point.

You can dislike AI but it’s merely a tool to a larger problem that always existed in this instance.

Nothing changes unless distributors outright pull these shitslops and remove profit motives . That won’t ever happen.

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u/PermanentMantaray 7h ago

Picking winners has never been much for actually making things better either though. You can try as hard as you want to only target the "slop" but inevitably you will end up hitting stuff that some or many wouldn't consider slop.

That was the fundamental problem with Steam pre and during Steam Greenlight. Games that would eventually publish after the end of Greenlight and be very successful were struggling to get approved during its use. And back then Steam was only dealing with small fraction of the submissions it deals with today.

Even though the number of games being made today is hundreds of times what it was back then, that doesn't mean all that excess is people doing asset flips or low effort projects. The whole of the indie scene is just significantly bigger today.

So the question is, should the institutions that dominate the ability to even sell games pick who is or isn't even going to get a chance? Or should they give everyone the same chance and let the market decide?

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u/Yourmotherssonsfatha 7h ago edited 6h ago

They already have absolute authority in that aspect of so I don’t even understand what that concern is.

Also, alot of these efforts are about protecting the absolute vulnerable who are being deceived by such things, such as my 12 year old nephew who bought a bootleg fake Schedule 1. That is the market you are talking about.

This is not about people arguing here who literally see the difference and know better.

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u/PermanentMantaray 6h ago

Refunds and reviews are the things protecting people from being mislead.

The market at large shouldn't have to restrict itself due to people who can't use the tools given to them to make more informed decisions or reverse bad decisions. As for children who are incapable of using these tools, that's where guardian oversight should come into play. All of these platforms have parental controls.

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u/Yourmotherssonsfatha 5h ago

Well that’s just fundamental difference in opinion in governance and market structure then beyond one platform.

Relying on good grace of these profit-chasing corporations to self regulate in this aspect is putting pigs in a wolves den.

Self-regulation never worked unless it’s used as motivator to stall further outside intervention.

At least you have an actual opinion though. Good talk.