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Good to know, but sad that it has to be said.

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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 15 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Ok sure, but how much of the game will actually be generated by dolphins?

This will probably be just another example of HUMAN appropriation when plenty of dolphin developers are struggling to even find work in this industry. Maybe when dolphins are literally the subject matter of the game we could consider inclusivity in its development?

#dolphin_life #Phins_In_Gaming #NotMyEcco

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 3 points 4 hours ago

Look buddy, I don't give a single fuck about your #EccoFascist bullshit.

#AdolfPhin #PhinLivesMatterToo #NotAllPhins #ReleaseTheEccosteinFiles

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I wonder if the name Ecco has to do with John C. Lilly.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I somehow read "not a single pixel will not be AI generated" at first. My brain just defaulted to that. I was confused by the replies for a minute straight.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 12 hours ago

OMG NEW ECCO GAME

[–] itkovian@lemmy.world 59 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I knew that "No AI used" is going to become a huge selling point for many products. And I think this is just the start.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I'm gonna have my kid add "No AI used" to his lemonade stand sign. He'll probably double his profits.

(so like $4).

[–] LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago

That's excellent. And as these mega corps watch consumers favor those products. Maybe, just maybe they'll fucking implode. That's just a fantasy I know.

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 49 points 15 hours ago

Written by an actual dolphin

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm so fucking pumped for new Ecco games. I loved the original on Genesis and it's about damn time we get some fresh stuff in the series.

Even better with this statement

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I hope they make an effort with the soundtrack. For me that was a big highlight on all games (specially Sega CD).

[–] solidsmoke@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

Undercaves song goes so hard

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 40 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

What if I use DLSS to upscale and add frames?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Maybe the new Ecco game will be optimized well enough to not need or include DLSS and frame generation. 🤷‍♂️

If they use that stuff and it's still a 2D platformer, holy fucking shit. 🤣

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago

Well it wouldn't be a single pixel then, would it?

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 34 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

AI is quite bad at pixel art in fact.

It understands things must look roughly made by squares, but it doesn't understand what pixels are and their fixed grid.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

To be fair, humans are also bad at it these days, judging by the amount of mixels.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

even if it is exclusively trained on pixel art?

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 18 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Yep. It will create something that at a glance looks like pixel art, then you zoom in and find anti-aliased rectangular pixels made out of three different shades of the main color, a weird line, and no clear grid.

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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago

Not a single pixel. The code, however...

[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Ok then, that was always allowed.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's about saving the planet, I think

[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

The developer – whose credits also include Chakan: The Forever Man, Kolibri, Mr. Bones and Three Dirty Dwarves – has previously been quite vocal about his support of tech such as Web3, AI and LLMs (Large Language Models) in video games.

His LinkedIn profile states that one of his "near-term" goals is to "create an AI system to generate ergodic game content." His current company, PLAYCHEMY, lists "gamification of AI models, Stable Diffusion, LLM, and NeRF" as some of its primary areas of interest.

Save the planet with ECCO, to kill it everywhere else? It's just marketing (it's working though). Wait for the reviews instead.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Listening to marketeers do their thing. Have we not learned our lesson yet. They'll say whatever it is to sell their game.

Let them make it. Let them release it. Find out if it's something you want to buy. Buy it. "It's about saving the planet" why would anyone volunteer to carry water for them?

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago
[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 14 hours ago

It's the same kind of sadness that I feel knowing that a ton of YouTubers who would rather not show their face now have to just so that people know that they're not a fucking clanker. Especially if they're new at it and don't have a backlog or community to prove that they've been around longer than the AI slop.

[–] janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Not a single one. In fact it will be nothing less than all of the one's

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 2 points 15 hours ago

The zeros will be hand-made, however.

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