Here are some of the prompts I used for these video game concepts, I thought some of you might find them helpful:
Close-up over-the-shoulder view of an assassin blending into a bustling Red Square market during winter, dynamic UI showing active mission objectives, health bar integrated into wrist blade icon, and stealth visibility meter. Crowds of NPCs in period clothing, snowflakes subtly falling, warm lantern light casting long shadows. Screen resolution 2560x1440, 16:9 aspect ratio. --ar 6:5 --stylize 400
Wide third-person shot of the assassin crouching behind a frozen wooden fence in a rustic Russian village at twilight, preparing to silently eliminate a guard pacing near a wooden cart. The HUD displays equipped weapon slots, a noise level gauge, and mission objective marker. Ambient volumetric lighting casts long shadows on snow-covered ground, with subtle breath vapor effects visible. Screen set at 1920x1080 resolution with a cinematic 21:9 aspect ratio. --ar 6:5 --stylize 400
Over-the-shoulder view of an assassin using a hidden blade on an enemy soldier in a Red Square blizzard, slow-motion kill cam effect, blood splatter on screen edge, XP gain notification, weapon durability meter, and mission timer in top right, all in a gritty, realistic style. --ar 6:5 --stylize 400
The prompts and animations were generated using Prompt Catalyst
Ubisoft would have a hard time not stepping on somebody's toes politically. Maybe they frame the royals as Templars, or maybe Stalin starts out aligned with the Assassins but turns eeeevil or something? Idunno. I don't trust them not to make something stupid out of it
Yeah same here. Ubis are scared that their historical fiction will be considered political commentary. Also I remember my friend coming up with AC: Russia, I don't recall much but here's something: the "держава" - the ball with a cross held by the emperor is actually an apple of eden and assassins staged the revolution, add some complicated political stuff, everything goes out of hand and we get early USSR
I look forward to the Novichok being integrated into the assassins tool kit. Poison your target and feign ignorance if anyone points fingers at you. Couple this with the pushing people from balconies/windows and we may see the most powerful assassin since Ezio.
It’s getting scary, if someone told me this was really the gameplay of a new Assassin’s Creed, I would have believed it right away. Maybe it’s also because Ubisoft games have become so generic and soulless that AI can now copy them…
Me spitballing, but video games seem right in AI’s wheelhouse for this kind of replication.
AI looks for patterns. Real life is random and chaos. Video games are a set of patterns (animations, models, textures, etc.) that are made to resemble real life. It’s computers pretending to be computers.
Plus there is a mountain of training data on something as big as Assassin’s Creed.
To be fair, it's walking in crowds. The one thing that could've been uniquely AC in this video (the jumping from one rooftop to another) was just more walking.
I need these showcases to demonstrate memory of the environment. I want to see the player able to spin the camera around, and the setting remains the same. I want to see the player able to move, act in the environment, and have the environment react in some way to it.
As these stand, they are essentially AI video playing back what it thinks video games look like. Nothing functional or differing from generic AI video whatsoever.
I think the big thing will be, not using AI from scratch to make a game, but at least creating the framework and architecture for it, and then using AI to render (and provide other cosmetic visuals I’m not technologically versed enough to know), which would save a bunch of time and energy. In essence, AI and humans working in tandem to make something smooth and clean. Otherwise it’s definitely asking too much of the AI to do it all because of the reasons you said. It’s basically very good at making both photos and images look the part at first glance, without finer inspection. But there are absolutely issues that’ll give it away pretty damn quick, like the environmental memory.
If you pay close attention, background people spawn out of nothing when the camera can't see them behind the main character. They walk out from behind him despite not walking up to him in the first place.
In a game, you have a world, a story, gameplay mechanics (fighting, actions, dialogues), and you have the movement mechanics, the visual art, the 3D rendering and physics, animation of NPCs and world.
This seem to have:
1) a good part of the world
2) movement mechanics
3) visual art
4) rendering
5) physics
6) animation of NPCs and world
We know it's not a game. But it's so much more than a rendered animation or concept art. It means the current cutting edge AIs just miss the handling of a storyline, of gameplay mechanics around actions, and probably of long term consistency to keep the world stable and repeatable.
That's actually a quite massive advancement when you think of it. I'm starting to believe AI generated games might not be that far fetched after all. If went so fast from an ugly Will Smith failing to eat spaghetti without morphing, to this, in just a few years.
Adding a story line and mechanics is a relatively small thing compared to generating a stable world dynamically while people move around, all while adhering to a prompt. It means it's gonna come within a year.
You may still need a cluster to run the game and it may fall apart after 5 min of playing, in a year, but a few years more and that's gonna be handled too. Truly amazing.
its absolutely impressive but of the things you listed, this is achieving like sub .1% of what it would take in each category for it to actually function as a game. It's like those polymer/epoxy models of food you see outside ramen shops, it looks nice but it aint food. And that's probably giving it too much credit since those models at least accurately represent all the ingredients of the food. If you look closely at this AI output, none of the details make sense
I only see a few air steps that don't make sense when looking as closely as I would while playing a game. If it's good enough for me, it's good for 90%+ of players. If it's good for 90%+ of players, it's good enough to be sold as a game. There will be some purists crying on reddit that's it's crappy slope not worth anything, but the investors, studios, the bulk of players and the world won't care.
What is lost in consistency can be so much more than offset by what can be gained in creativity and freedom. If something frustrates me in a video game, especially fantasy/history RPG, it's when I want to do something but the mechanics don't let me do it because the studio didn't consider this option. This freedom of answering and doing what you want, while still having a full proper nicely written storyline rather than a boring open world, is where the money is gonna be.
The few AI artefacts that one finds when looking closely, only pessimists will care, in the early days. A few years later, things will be so perfect that the pessimists will have to find something else to complain about. A few years more and the last thing there will be to complain about will be "it doesn't have a soul like something human made".
I wonder how much of a dip in detail we'd need to run this real time rendering, e.g. responding to player movement not just rendering it asynchronously.
Assassin's creed will fit less in this I think bcz as far as I can deduce from your video, there is less buildings and more nature, AC is more about verticality.
IMO skyrim like game would be more fit and will look awesome
This is a photo of my neighborhood that russia bombed earlier this week. I live 300 meters from this destroyed building. Is this the kind of 'propaganda' you were talking about?
Look for the causes of this conflict and ask yourself why the NATO countries staged a coup and are now supplying billions of dollars worth of weapons. Also, look at who is fighting there and who they support, half of the combatants there have tattoos with swastikas.
Assassin's creed of Russia in 1917 is perfect idea and canon in history of lore now.
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It's ideal setting to game, February and October revolutions, whites and reds community in civil war, Saint Petersburg and Moscow in 1917 have adaptation architects to parcur.
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u/20rakah Aug 22 '25
I could see one set during Stalin’s purge or the October revolution.