Originally Broadcast: May 04, 2023
Cameron Wills used ChatGPT to make a ChatGPT plugin for Unity, which became #1 in AI, and #2 overall on the Unity Asset Store. We talked about his experience as an indie game developer, his Unity asset for making games with ChatGPT, and the how generative AI is changing the craft of game-making for Indies.
Complete show notes with links to content mentioned in the episode: https://meditations.metavert.io/p/chatgpt-and-game-development-with
00:00 Introduction
01:30 ChatGPT for Unity Games
03:00 Generative AI While Playing
06:30 Generative Characters
10:15 Coding vs. Game Design
12:25 Speak Worlds into Existence
19:50 Text-to-3D
24:10 Generative Artwork
26:16 What scares you?
30:50 Demarcating Game Development
34:30 Life of an Indie Game Developer
Cameron Wills: or you know, I've never made a Unity editor script before. And so actually, I used chat TBT to help me make the chat TBT plugin for Unity.
Cameron Wills: So that's very meta. Yeah.
Jon Radoff: I am here with Cameron Willes, whose artificial intelligence asset on the Unity asset store went to number one within a very short period of time of him launching it. Cameron, welcome to building the metaverse. Tell me a little bit about the asset you created for Unity. What was the thought behind it? Why do you think it went to number one so fast?
Cameron Wills: Well, I knew that just being on Twitter so much, you sort of get the front lines of the AI news that comes out. And it was such a viral topic. And then the first time I used chat TBT, I was blown away myself, which is how far AI had come. I mean, I had been following it with the release of Dolly too. And I was playing with that. I just saw these tools coming out.