Damn WoW Classic+ hits different.
Okay I'll try to refrain from trolling, but the state of AI game development is getting insane. And the craziest part is it's only just beginning.
What you're seeing here is a project I started building in my spare time's spare time. A side project I spun up a little over a day ago and have been building in parallel to everything else. In that short window I was able to build a full zone inspired by Mulgore, the Tauren starting area in World of Warcraft. Target-based combat, fully functioning quests with rewards, XP, abilities, animations, multiplayer networking - a solid chunk of the starting building blocks you'd need for an MMO-style project.
I didn't write a single line of code. But this isn't the typical "I made this in a single prompt" type of gimmick either. This was a real back and forth; letting the agent do its thing while layering in my own decisions too. All of the assets were AI generated, but I helped with the planning, curated and created the references, and after the agent produced the first pass of the level I came in and did a lot of manual level design for the village layout and general object placement. That push and pull between me and the agent is what actually makes this process feel much more like co-creation.
All of this was built using @spawn, an AI gamedev platform for building web-based games. I genuinely think we're on the cusp of a web gaming revolution. It might not happen overnight, but as the quality keeps climbing people are going to catch on. At the end of 2024 I was struggling to build a simple Python auto-battler with Sonnet 3.5. Now I'm spinning up a fully networked MMO-style game in a matter of days. That gap alone tells you everything about where this is heading.
Oh yeah I also forgot to mention, there's networked physics! "You can see this in action at the end of the video."
This year we set out to build proactive, reliable, personalized agents, conquering Travel first
Between designing a new architecture from scratch, using years of data as hot context, and coming up with our own flow for code creation and reviews we had no idea if this was possible, let alone usable or viable for months
Pretty incredible looking back at all the problems we had to solve and how beautiful the results are, still awestruck every time it optimizes something we didn't know to ask for
Thanks @MattGlein for jumping in headfirst with me and responding to 3am texts
Thanks @npew for approving my beta request years ago so I could get unreasonably obsessed
Thanks @OpenAI@claudeai@gdb for building such a stepwise jump in engineering
It's time to build
This is the city of Manaus, Brazil.
A place where modern human civilization abruptly stops, replaced by the immense Amazon rainforest. https://t.co/ruwQ5TcA8C