Unity, one of game development’s preeminent engine creators, has announced a strategic partnership with Google to leverage AI for prompt-based game development for Google’s AI platform, which is dubbed “Playground.” As part of Playground’s developer environment, Unity is introducing a new tool named Unity Spark, a user interface specifically built for making games with user-created prompts.
In a press release, Unity describes Spark as an “expanded creation experience,” that is capable of “unlocking robust, professional-level mechanics, high-fidelity 3D capabilities, and the ultimate flexibility of Unity runtime.” Unity goes on to describe Spark as beginning game development with a text prompt to “eventually” grow into full game experiences, skipping the step of coding.
“This isn’t about ‘one-shotting,’ said Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg in a blog post accompanying the announcement. “Asking AI to regurgitate an already invented game does not make you the next Hideo Kojima, any more than re-typing the first paragraph of War and Peace in your word processor makes you Tolstoy.”
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Spark, as part of a collaboration with Google, is exclusively for use with Google’s AI platform, with the pair dubbing the entire environment Playground.
