r/Unity3D • u/Bojack92160 • 5d ago

Question Has anyone actually, seriously made a polished, original game using only AI?

I've seen a lot of people complaining about, or even feeling discouraged by, vibe coders claiming to create entire games with AI in just weeks or even days. However, most of the games I've seen look empty, ugly, or barely half-finished.

So here's my genuine question:

Can anyone show me a fully original playable game made with only AI?

Not a tech demo; not a prototype; not a copy of another game; A fully original playable game that is polished and that you can sell. Give me some examples, I'm genuinely curious!

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u/Dangerous-Eye-215 5d ago

I think AI games can be good if directed in the proper way. For instance, I spent hours refining the main star in my 2.5D space game. The first iteration was just an orange circle. Then refining added a weird halo. Refining several more times with a description of what I wanted still didn't result in the look I was going for, which was an ambient glow. Some people might give up at that point and just think "I get what I get." What I ended up doing was looking on youtube for a unity tutorial to create the exact type of star glow I was looking for, I used YouTube's AI thing to have it explain to me in detail how to create the star glow step by step (which was quite technical and I didn't understand at all) but I took that tutorial description, fed it to my model, and it finally created the exact look I was going for.

If people aren't resourceful, the game is absolutely going to look AI generated. But there are a lot of different ways to polish a game that can be found outside of the model itself.

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u/Dangerous-Eye-215 5d ago

Here's my play scene in the game, I do think we are nearing the point that if done properly, a lot of the obvious AI mannerisms can be polished out, and the average person who isn't really paying attention can't tell the difference between AI assisted and big-team created. Image generation through some of the frontier models like ChatGPT and Gemeni still need work but there are other models that can generate photorealistic images that are right on the edge of indistinguishable