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Raz-Fridman says he is excited about the code generation technology that Roblox has in the works. “It’s at an early stage, but it creates ways to build more innovatively,” says Yonatan Raz-Fridman, Supersocial’s CEO.

MidJourney is one of several new art tools that use AI to generate images in response to a text prompt. Developers at Supersocial, a company that makes Roblox games for lifestyle brands, have been using a tool called MidJourney to test out new designs for in-game objects. Some Roblox makers have already been dabbling with generative AI tools. Mark Riedl, a professor at Georgia Tech who also specializes in AI and games, says that just as generative AI can cause unpredictable and problematic web search results, it could potentially cause games to misbehave. “Game developers are generally very conservative and want guarantees about the quality of player experience,” he says. But ultimately, he says, more use of AI will require rethinking game development and game design. Roblox is a good company to experiment with the technology, Togelius says, because its users are creators and it’s something of an upstart. “Generative AI will fundamentally transform game development, but it’s not going to happen overnight,” says Julian Togelius, an associate professor at New York University who works on AI and video games. This is similar to what Roblox is doing but involves using AI coding to change not just game creation but gameplay itself. In May 2022, Microsoft demonstrated a way to control characters in Minecraft by feeding naturally phrased instructions to a code-writing AI that accessed the game’s application programming interface. The startup Replit, which makes a popular online programming tool, recently launched a chatbot-like interface that will not only write code but answer programming questions.īesides generating content, generative AI could change in-game behavior. Visual Studio and other AI-enabled programming environments typically write code in response to a developer’s comment or when the user starts typing.