Project Emergence

This project envisions a future in which creators and players jointly create games that leverage the stunning generative power of new AI models in conjunction with Microsoft’s enormous gaming player base. Our goal is to empower game creators to create novel non-player character (NPC) experiences, design new narratives, and eventually build whole new worlds through implicit player feedback and recursive application of new conversational technologies. Traditionally, game creation has been an extremely labor-intensive artisanal process. With the latest advances in AI, game designers will soon be using generative AI models as everyday co-pilots. This new technological paradigm will unlock whole new modes of game design and development in which creators will be able to orchestrate game creation (including character definition, narrative design, and world creation) at a very high-level using natural language descriptions and AI models will provide potentially infinite creative variations to choose among.    

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