Kazuma Kaneko, the legendary “Demon Designer” and artwork director behind the Shin Megami Tensei collection, each mainline Persona sport and, most lately, Metaphor: ReFantazio, has simply revealed his new card sport with AI-generated card artwork, Kazuma Kaneko’s Tsukuyomi. Like with the sooner sport Tsukuyomi: The Divine Hunter, Kaneko isn’t simply concerned in features like sport idea and character design however truly seems in-game, or not less than an AI recreation of him does.
Coming from cellular sport developer Colopl, it’s set to land on Nintendo Change and Change 2 on April 23, and it’ll value you $24.99. Or roughly $640, if you wish to shell out for the particular “Shinma Artist Field” version.
This reveal was made alongside the announcement that Colopl’s earlier free-to-play partnership with Kaneko, Tsukuyomi: The Divine Hunter, will probably be coming to a detailed on April 22 (a day earlier than the discharge of Kazuma Kaneko’s Tsukuyomi). This was all introduced throughout a livestreamed event on Colopl’s official YouTube final night time.
Tsukuyomi: The Divine Hunter allowed gamers to create their very own AI paintings playing cards via the usage of its “AI Kaneko” mechanic. The in-game Kazuma Kaneko would analyze gamers’ playstyles and reward them AI-generated playing cards, based mostly on a library of Kaneko’s work. Kazuma Kaneko’s Tsukuyomi gained’t function the identical mechanic, however will as a substitute port 3,600 of the developer’s favorite AI Kaneko-produced playing cards over to the brand new model of the sport.
We all know this as a result of a Colopl consultant reached out to Gematsu to make clear: “The Change model takes a curated quantity of these AI generated playing cards from the earlier sport and consists of them within the new sport. The Change model doesn’t embody the generative AI mannequin to create new playing cards past the playing cards that the staff has put into the Change model.”
Worse nonetheless, as famous by Automaton, the official Kazuma Kaneko’s Tsukuyomi web site states that the “sport makes use of generative AI within the creation of pictures, movies, and music.” The identical assertion says that the devs will “try to forestall unauthorised use and rights infringement,” but it surely’s nonetheless affirmation that generative AI instruments are being utilized in nearly each side of this sport’s improvement.
