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Would have to be in production soon, right? In order to be finished in time

If it happens it's gonna be an AI Dungeon-like RP game, AI dungeon itself probably had a revenue in the 100's K dollars and the company behind it raised 3.3M dollars https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/04/latitude-seed-funding/

What if the game it makes is basically a recreation of an existing game, or perhaps a mashup of two similar existing games, that is just different enough to avoid falling afoul of IP laws?

@IsaacKing That's fine as long as it hits the revenue target.

How much does the AI have to actually do? Does it have to write the code? Could it just provide the ideas and a human writes the code? Can it generate individual art assets and a human formats them properly to be displayed in the game?

@IsaacKing Just providing ideas is insufficient.

96% of the games on Steam generate less than $1 million in sales: https://gameworldobserver.com/2022/11/29/median-indie-game-earnings-steam-barely-over-1000

So it cannot just be any random experimental indie game where the AI generation is the main draw; it has to actually be a good game that attracts a significant following. Apparently a third of the ~400 games on the Meta Quest store have earned over $1 million (https://uploadvr.com/1-in-3-meta-quest-store-apps-make-millions-in-revenue/), so perhaps the level of quality on the Quest store is a good benchmark for comparison: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/section/258035155854818/

Personally I am doubtful that a high-quality game could be developed, released, and hit $1M revenue on such a short timespan. (Less than two years from now -- we don't currently even have AI that can generate good 3D models!)

I would appreciate some examples of what would cause this market to resolve to "NO", as I could see some game incorporating AI in a fairly basic / limited but high-salience way (ie, the enemies in in a stealth game are RL-trained agents that realistically search for the player, a la "Hello Neighbor", or all the textures are AI generated but then they are applied to human-made game objects), gets a bunch of overhyped headlines as "the first AI-created game!!", but doesn't truly meet the criteria that this market seems to be laying out.

@JacksonWagner All of your examples would resolve NO.

I assume the code has to be AI generated too?

“Assets” is a pretty broad term! This includes both art and sound, right?

I’m assuming it could count as an “overwhelming majority” of AI-made assets even if the fonts and some UI art are hand-made?

@EMcNeill Correct!

I have updated with a FAQ to help to remove ambiguity.

What if the assets are AI-generated and human-edited? How significant would the human contribution have to be before it stops counting? And if the game is marketed as such but the creators don't reveal the amount of human involvement, which way does this market go?

@comsynthus This is where my judgement comes into play. The more direct human involvement is needed the less impressive the result. I am willing to update towards something more concrete here.

Added the related 2026 market: https://manifold.markets/SneakySly/by-the-end-of-2026-will-there-be-a

By the end of 2024 will there be a mostly AI generated game with $1 million or more in revenue?, 8k, beautiful, illustration, trending on art station, picture of the day, epic composition