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Exactly this, well said!

You're right! I made a mistake on the NTY acronym. エヌティーワイ スタジオ (thanks for catching ☺)

I have a soft intuition we may see early generative AI adoption in "remastered" versions of old games to make use of the tool's upscaling abilities.

I appreciate your point, and I agree that (at its core) AI is a tool that can be powerful with the right guidance. The concern that sparked this video has been my recent observations of how new entrants to the creative space are increasingly relying on AI as a substitute for the very expertise required to design the intentional experiences I mention in the video. Intention and restraint are both required to effectively capture minimalism, but these aren't "default settings" that come baked with AI. Your suggested process of refinement with AI works well for a person with the appropriate expertise to know what to aim for, but I would wager you've also had a front-row seat in observing the (all too common) inverse. My hope is that as AI becomes more prevalent (the box is open now, it can't be closed), people choose to use it as a tool to refine their craft instead of a replacement for the craft itself.

Spot on. AI excels at upscaling and adding detail, and I’ve seen pre-production pipelines where artists use AI upscaling on original artwork to speed up the storyboarding process. But the other side of that coin, to your point, is that AI lacks a true sense of visual hierarchy; it adds for the sake of adding, because it doesn't understand what it's trying to communicate with the detail its adding. I believe this is often why AI generated art and worlds feel so empty, because it's a space with nothing to say. That intentionality and nuance in detail, which gives art so much of its emotion, is one of the easiest ways to spot a human artist vs an AI artist.

Your intuition is correct. In my video, I was primarily focused on visual mediums (thinking about silence and minimalism for pacing and player immersion). Your point about music is an interesting case. I think it may be a bit of a "false positive" when it comes to AI and silence, largely because AI-generated music is trained on audio data that inherently has structured silence, pauses, and minimalism following traditional composition. Thanks for stopping by and the thoughtful comment ☺

Hey! Thanks for dropping by on the 10 view video 😸 You're absolutely right, the mechanics ported from games into apps can often be as hollow in the games themselves, and there are a litany of other mechanics that can be pulled aside from badges, points, etc (as you pointed out with upgrades and unlocks). I think at a high level, the meaningful difference (irrespective of the mechanics that are pulled) is all about the intent behind the mechanics and how they complement each other in the experience. I find where gamification in products (but also games) often goes astray is that the visible mechanics are borrowed by the "why" of what makes them rewarding is left behind. Instead of deepening the purpose and journey of the upgrade or unlock, sometimes it's implemented as a means to an end which results in that hollow feeling. Thanks again for the great comment and stopping by 🖖