ChatGPT designed a game, is it any good?

every once in a while a piece of technology comes along that changes everything a few days ago something called chat GPT was Unleashed onto this world when we talk about artificial intelligence a lot of us have been thinking about mid-journey or dolly people were having existential crisis over these programs chat GPT is probably the most powerful thing I've ever seen in my entire life there is only one logical thing I can do with the power [Music] of this of this thing and that is to force it to design a board game for me and see if it's any good at it [Music] foreign bus are going to have jobs in a few years let's start with something easy I'm thinking 18 cards and a two player game would be easy enough to make and easy enough for the AI to understand so give that a try chat GPT please design me design a two player board game that uses 18 cards [Music] and as a fantasy [Music] and generate Wizard's duel okay [Music] oh wow okay it's it's still gone holy cow okay let's review the walls each player starts with a deck of nine cards consisting of three Attack cards three defend cards and three heal cards that's pretty easy um each player draws the top part of their deck and places it face up in front of them forming their active card for the round this remaining cards face down in the middle of the playing surface to form the drama this actually doesn't work it's not a conceivable board game so let's try it again quest for the lost kingdom foreign [Music] [Music] this potentially could work wow okay so each player starts with nine cards each representing a different fantasy creature um a dragon a wizard knife or elf um the game board is a grid of nine squares representing the lost kingdom that players are trying to claim so we need creatures right so um list all nine creatures and their special abilities and there there goes so a dragon can move two spaces and a turn instead of one okay that's pretty cool wizard can defeat any opponent's creature regardless of strength Knight has plus one strength in combat elf can move diagonally as well as horizontally or vertically Dragon what are the combat strengths so I need list all nine creatures they're combat strength and their special abilities this one so this all none creatures their combat strength and they're special abilities let's see yeah okay it kept the same abilities that is really cool okay so we have all of our creatures all the combat strength what else do we need so we have a grid of nine squares that this is played on we have our creatures the next part is I mean that's that's almost it that's almost an entire game right there are a few things we need to address so I put everything into a spreadsheet here what I was impressed by is some of the thematics here so if we look at the Phoenix the Phoenix can be returned to the player's hand after being defeated in combat which is like super thematic right if Phoenix comes back even Magic the Gathering has 18 described it does stuff like that there are a few things that don't quite work though so the Unicorn I don't believe we have any way of healing anything there isn't a mechanic in the game for that some of the other things like the way the goblin can move through occupied squares that indicates additional rules that maybe aren't already stated same thing with the elf can move diagonally so I don't believe we can look here so [Music] to move it one space in any direction so the rules are not clear um that you can't move through an occupied Square or that you can't move diagonally so we'll have to clear that up but based on the based on the features of some of these creatures the features and creatures we know that we can do it that way so few other things is um the Centaur has plus one strength the Minotaur has plus two strength the Knight has plus one strength in combat you all have additional strength in combat I think that needs to say while attacking so as long as these are the aggressor and they're not the one being attacked they get a plus one otherwise they're at their normal stat I believe that should be it so we just need to clean up some of these things so in combat other than combat strength wow well attacking [Music] the Minotaur has plus two strings uh attacking and uh let's hear The Knight plus one string as well attacking foreign maybe to deal with the Unicorn we could say instead of heels one point maybe it actually gets like a a plus two while defendant so the Unicorn is a three while it's attacking but it's a five when it's defending so a unicorn can defend against the dragon but it can't kill you know a Minotaur you know or it can't kill a knight I think this is getting it's getting legit so we need to rephrase some of the wording in the in the rules just to be more clear on the movement but it's interesting that it seems to know that the movement of the movement will work and then also um if a player manages to control all nine squares of the lost kingdom they win the game I don't think it will be possible to control all nine squares you only have nine creatures uh controlling all nine squares it's going to be really difficult I think it's we'll change that to the player the last player stand so the last player with creatures on the board wins this is this is that's that's all I can think of to change I mean we're talking I started like five minutes ago and we have a game so let's make the game and let's see uh what happens [Music] no no no no no no no no no yeah [Music] foreign foreign [Music] so he can kill the dragon the problem is he only has plus one while he's attacking so if I put him here the dragon could kill him um so he needs to be at least three squares away so I'm going to put him up here across the wizard the wizard is the key card it can defeat anything so I'm gonna put him next to the Dragon so I have to move this Minotaur otherwise it's going to die to the wizard so I'm going to kill the feet [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] so I've played the game a few times now there are a few um just like a few tweaks that need to happen a few changes in the wordings to the rules but overall and here's the crazy thing overall um the game plays there there needs to be you know more iterations more play testing this is better than a lot of games that I've designed myself that I've play tested in you know in early play testing this is better than a lot of games I've played at things like Proto spiels it took very little time to get here I think it's important to know that while the AI can generate a board game a concept it takes it still takes development by a human to to be playable for now I think moving forward on something like chat GPT is going to be incredibly useful for game designers when when you have to figure out a mechanic for a certain set of constraints that you might have chat jpt is more than capable of giving you a brainstorm of ideas it's kind of like the image generating AIS they they're not a final product they they never will be a final product but they are a good starting point for a concept over overall I'm just this is really exciting I don't think you should think of this as like the end of game design I think this is another tool that you should put in your toolbox to use in the future well guys if you like this video make sure you like And subscribe and if you want to hear more about Ai and board games let me know down in the comments have a good one [Music]

Channel: Nash Idaho

Views: 3,381

Keywords: chatGPT, game design, board games, ai

Id: HyABmv4WCIM

Length: 15min 47sec (947 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 07 2022