A new experiment demonstrates how AI image generation could work for game development. An independent developer has released a short 2D shooting ... the background, the player's ship, and the ...

Google researchers have published a new artificial intelligence model that can take a text prompt, sketch or idea and turn it into a virtual world you can interact with and play. Named Genie ...

While Genie's output looks similar at a glance to what might come from a basic 2D game ... static image to start from, Genie seems able to distinguish a player character from a game background ...

Unity, the increasingly popular “build once, deploy anywhere” 3D game ... image for the sake of performance). It’s getting a built-in sprite animation editor, and a dedicated 2D renderer ...

Google’s Deepmind team recently published a new research paper (available here as a pdf) that shows off what the group’s Genie AI model is capable of, and it could have significant ...

Must I be forced to play these dope 2D tributes as the blue guy when I simply desire to skate around and be angsty? While Sonic has been trying out new things with the open-world Sonic Frontiers ...

Innovation must come from the games themselves, and it turns out that players can help with that... I’m happy Super Mario Bros. Wonder came and gave us renewed hope for the future of 2D Mario.

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