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Featuring imprisoned AI who paint pictures using AI
Image credit:NeonSerpent LLC
Image credit:NeonSerpent LLC
All-in-all, it’s not so much a new videogame as a terrible trap devised to waylay and enrapture hipster middle-aged news editors who have to write about ChatGPT now and then. But who knows, it mayalsoappeal if you’re keen on strange worlds in which curiosity and experimentation take precedence over massacring the wildlife.
I don’t get much of a Metroid vibe from Carceri, but those hazy angular landscapes do look like they’d make decentPsychonautslevels. There’s also a bit of Umurangi Generation in there - you have a magic camera that doubles as a way of messing around with the graphics settings. Other attractions include a philosophy forum, a gallery, a rock concert, a giant open-air chess-set, and the illicit thrill of “jumping around where you don’t belong”. Here’s a trailer.
Carceri Official Trailer (Solo Indie Game)Watch on YouTube
Carceri Official Trailer (Solo Indie Game)Watch on YouTube
Carceri Official Trailer (Solo Indie Game)
You can find out more onthe Steam page, which includes an extended disclosure about the game’s usage of generative AI tools to create artworks inside the world, as per Valve’srecently introduced requirement that developers be more transparent on this front. The irony here is that the in-game artworks in Carceri are represented as the handiwork of in-game sentient AI characters. All in all, I score this AI disclosure Inception out of 10. It’d have been a Synecdoche, New York out of 10, but I don’t like the font in the trailer.
No names of modern, living artists were used to generate these images. The prompts were words such as: Hudson River school, old masters, Delacroix, robots, abstract geometry, landscape. From there, I photo-shopped all images so that none are 100% unaltered from the generation process.
If you’re on an artgaming bender right now, there’s alsoArt Game,Sty Fking Art Game, For Pretentious T*tsandLet’s Play: Let’s Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: Art Edition Edition. If you’d rather play around in a videogame gaol, errm, well -Ghost Of A Taleis a great one, I reckon.
