Generating Stories: AI for Game Development #5

Welcome to AI for Game Development! In this series, we'll be using AI tools to create a fully functional farming game in just 5 days. By the end of this series, you will have learned how you can incorporate a variety of AI tools into your game development workflow. I will show you how you can use AI tools for:

1. Art Style
2. Game Design
3. 3D Assets
4. 2D Assets
5. Story

Want the quick video version? You can watch it here. Otherwise, if you want the technical details, keep reading!

Note: This post makes several references to Part 2, where we used ChatGPT for Game Design. Read Part 2 for additional context on how ChatGPT works, including a brief overview of language models and their limitations.

Day 5: Story

In Part 4 of this tutorial series, we talked about how you can use Stable Diffusion and Image2Image as a tool in your 2D Asset workflow.

In this final part, we'll be using AI for Story. First, I'll walk through my process for the farming game, calling attention to ⚠️ Limitations to watch out for. Then, I'll talk about relevant technologies and where we're headed in the context of game development. Finally, I'll conclude with the final game.

Process

Requirements: I'm using ChatGPT throughout this process. For more information on ChatGPT and language modeling in general, I recommend reading Part 2 of the series. ChatGPT isn't the only viable solution, with many emerging competitors, including open-source dialog agents. Read ahead to learn more about the emerging landscape of dialog agents.

1. Ask ChatGPT to write a story. I provide plenty of context about my game, then ask ChatGPT to write a story summary.

ChatGPT then responds with a story summary that is extremely similar to the story of the game Stardew Valley.

⚠️ Limitation: Language models are susceptible to reproducing existing stories.

This highlights the importance of using language models as a tool, rather than as a replacement for human creativity. In this case, relying solely on ChatGPT would result in a very unoriginal story.