Google and Unity unveil gen-AI game-making platforms, and demonstrate one of them with depressingly rubbish "dream game" Space Corridor

Google and Unity unveil gen-AI game-making platforms, and demonstrate one of them with depressingly rubbish "dream game" Space Corridor "They successfully identified that their target market was people with no imagination." Google and Unity yesterday announced new generative-AI game-making platforms designed to make and shape games by inputting text prompts. Google's product is called Playground and is available for testing now, if you live in the US, and Unity's product is Unity Spark and is "coming soon". Google Playground will work with and integrate Unity Spark when "creators" want to "expand their concepts" with "robust, professional-level mechanics, high-fidelity 3D capabilities", Google's Playground blog post said. On Bluesky, Dan Marshall of Size Five Games - creator of the recent point-and-click villain comedy Earth Must Die - described Unity Spark's creation of Space Corridor "as the strongest argument I can think of for keeping game dev out of the pro-AI crowd's hands".