Summary
Colopl, a sizeable Japanese studio responsible for games like White Cat Project and Alice Gear Aegis, has revealed that over 80 per cent of its developers use generative artificial intelligence in their daily work lives. Colopl has approximately 360 full-time employees.
Originally reported byOtaku Soken(thanks,Automaton), Colopl commissioned an internal survey of its employees regarding the use of generative AI. According to the survey, employees in marketing and management were more likely to use AI than engineers or designers.
The 20 per cent of employees who do not use artificial intelligence say they “don’t feel the need to use AI” or “feel apprehensive about legal and ethical issues.”
Questionable Track Record
It makes sense that Colopl employees have wholeheartedly embraced artificial intelligence because that’s also the leadership’s approach to the technology. The studio recently released Tsukuyomi: The Divine Hunter, an AI-powered deck builder that was only supposed to generate cards based on original art by former Persona artist Kazuma Kaneko but wound upincorporating copyrighted materialfrom Disney and other companies.
Kazuma Kaneko also said that training the AI behind Tsukuyomi: The Divine Hunter took longer than if he had just hand-drawn everything himself.
This hasn’t stifled Colopl’s embrace of AI, however, as the studio has announced that ChatGPT will be incorporated into its internal site for ease of access for employees.
AI usage seems more prevalent in Japanese studios, as Level-5 president Akihiro Hinorecently saidthat video games are “80-90 per cent” made by artificial intelligence. Hino’s statement did have a strange jump in logic, as he equated raw code generation with “making a game”, which isn’t really how anything works.
Colopl’s latest game, the aforementioned Tsukuyomi: The Divine Hunter, currently holds a"Mixed" review score on Steam. A lot of the reviews are critical towards Kazuma Kaneko for participating in an AI-powered project, while others are just critical of the game’s mechanics.
