AI-driven story platform Scriptic wants to be the Roblox for narrative

“We have no choice but to teach these [new technologies] and encourage exploration of them. It’s about encouraging students to see what they can do with it,” Roger Tredre, course leader of the Fashion Communication master’s degree program at Central Saint Martins, tells Jing Daily. Over the last nine years, Elaine has managed investment portfolio using fundamental analysis and value investing, emphasizing long-term time horizons.

The company’s earnings growth has been mixed, with a decline of 38.26% last year but a positive growth of 40.43% this year. Looking ahead, analysts expect the company’s earnings to grow at a rate of 27.44% over the next five years. The company is also growing its ambitions for Roblox, expanding outwards from its origins as a gaming platform for kids, to a social media platform that can bring people together for myriad purposes, including education. UK studio Scriptic will open out its interactive storytelling platform to creators early next year as it aims to become the ‘Roblox for narrative’, says CEO Nihal Tharoor. At its core, Versed is targeting creators that are already active in the worlds of interactive storytelling, those who are perhap slooking to transition from offline to digital.

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That can then be further tweaked, with Sturman suggesting players could ask it to replace deciduous trees with pine trees, or provide clarification as to the type of tent they’re looking for. So at a basic level, Sturman says users could ask the Assistant how to import a mesh into Roblox and receive instructions on that process, but it can go further. Users could even instruct the tool to create a grid of orbs around the previously mentioned one, and the tool will automatically generate such a grid around the self-destructive one.

The technology relies on AI models trained with lots of data, in the form of text or images scraped from the web, and is also at work in the viral chatbot ChatGPT. In May, Roblox reported that its daily active user count increased 22% year over year to 66.1 million users. The platform plays host to millions of user-generated games, although some are vastly more robust and polished than others, and Yakov Livshits Baszucki said earlier this year that 70 such Roblox games each have tallied over 1 billion unique play sessions to date. Roblox took its first steps into generative AI tooling in February with the launch of Code Assist and Material Generator, both in beta, which are designed to help streamline game creation. Code Assist and Material Generator auto-generate code and object textures, respectively.

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We’ve seen first-hand how platform shifts can change entire industries for the better, and feel the AI shift is no different. To say the least, we’re honored to support extraordinary founders shaping what’s ahead. Building on modularization in game development and the rise of UGC, AI is supercharging game studios by creating engines and tools sets that automate the tedious aspects of game development and allowing anyone to build high-quality games. We expect the AI platform shift will touch every aspect of the game development stack including object and environment creation and developer tooling. Well, a number of companies have stuck their generative AI stake in the ground over the last few months.

For example, Roblox announced they’re building a platform that will, “allow every user to be a creator,” using generative AI tools. Unity just launched a new AI marketplace featuring generative AI and behavioral AI solutions alongside several new AI-powered tools that help developers enhance their gameplay. Mods require a more sophisticated understanding of the game’s underlying architecture and programming, but Roblox and Minecraft simplified and abstracted the game creation process. Roblox launched in 2006 as a UGC games platform for younger children, spawned by founder David Baszucki’s insight that some of the educational physics tools he built were used to create games.

Yakov Livshits
Founder of the DevEducation project
A prolific businessman and investor, and the founder of several large companies in Israel, the USA and the UAE, Yakov’s corporation comprises over 2,000 employees all over the world. He graduated from the University of Oxford in the UK and Technion in Israel, before moving on to study complex systems science at NECSI in the USA. Yakov has a Masters in Software Development.

Explore how it is to develop different game genres, from platformers to RPGs, from sandbox to Metroidvania, with the help of AI. These services are part of Adobe Sensei generative AI services, which are available across Adobe’s clouds. Adobe, the renowned software company, has recently introduced a new set of creative generative AI services called Firefly.

Will that be the same quantity of game launches that we have today but with more content and fewer incomplete games? There is clearly still a huge amount of work that needs to be done to scale the use of generative AI within gaming. But with advances in the technology happening in weeks, I think it’s safe to assume that generative AI in gaming will look different by the end of this year to how it looks now. As Corazza said in his GDC talk, generative AI’s success is down to context and too much of the time we expect AI to give an answer when there’s not enough context given.

The map below segments many popular UGC platforms by how vertical vs. horizontal they are, and whether they’re game-first or platform-first. Meanwhile, the other AI tool, Material Generator, allows Roblox users to create a variety of objects by describing what it looks like to the tool. The company mentioned in its Dev Forum that the tool would generate the object users described within a few seconds, though it will present preview images of what it would create to let users determine if it made the right thing. Roblox reportedly mentioned that it is launching its first AI tools for beta testing on Mar. 22, allowing those who wish to test out its new generative AI game creation tools for themselves and provide feedback on them, per Engadget. Roblox’s growth accelerated during the pandemic as students stayed home and spent more time creating and playing its games.

AIGC-enabled game engines may entail similarly fundamental changes to game creation; what if these new AIGC engines make Scene Graph paradigm obsolete for instance? Just as we see creators starting to generate video without traditional animation software and rendering pipelines, new techniques will likely arise which may displace real-time rendering as we know it today. Or take asset creation – companies like Luma Labs are building novel 3D scanning and asset generation technologies that could end up powering new game creation engines. What if, instead of text-prompts, we could take a video of a space and AI would automatically generate the meshes, textures, and fully rendered level in a game? The horizontal path is the most risky and will likely require more capital and stronger research teams but is also the path that can completely redefine game creation writ large.

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For gameplay, Versed leans on the Unity game engine, which will allow games to be played on just about any platform, though initially gameplay will be limited to Mac and PC. With this update, Roblox allows users to express themselves and monetize their creations. The platform invites individuals to develop “17 and over” experiences to attract more  17-to-24-year-old users, increase engagement, and potentially earn more. Sturman pitched Assistant to us as both a quick search solution to answer development questions, and a tool to quickly build game worlds instead of assembling them by hand. “You could tell Roblox Assistant ‘make it rain 10 percent of the time in my world, and that will go directly into what we’ve done with Code Assist, and start generating the scripts to make that happen.”

• Individuals wishing to consume or create content for 17 years and older must upload a selfie and a photo of a government-issued document.
• The “17+” experiences can also include unplayable gambling content and the presence of alcohol.
• Gaming giant Roblox also announced new tools to let game developer generate entire virtual worlds through natural language prompts, while Microsoft is working on similar generative AI smarts for its hugely popular Minecraft franchise.
• Microsoft was the first to harness the latest generation of AI for coding, through a deal with OpenAI, which has adapted a general purpose language technology called GPT to power a code generator called Codex.

In addition, this content may include third-party advertisements; a16z has not reviewed such advertisements and does not endorse any advertising content contained therein. One of the first popular mods was Castle Smurfenstein in the early 1980s, a mod of Id Software’s popular Castle Wolfenstein game. Id followed with the release of Doom in 1993, which included a WAD file package for Doom’s maps, sprites, textures, assets, etc. And of course, there’s Counter-strike, the most popular mod for Valve’s Half Life, and Defense of the Ancients, itself a mod of the popular Warcraft game and the precursor for Riot’s League of Legends.