Johannes Cortez · Prom13us

The next generation of games

We can now create games that could’ve never existed before. Worlds that keep moving without us. Characters that remember how we treated them. Teammates we coach instead of control.

And somehow, most of the industry is still using AI to recreate the games of yesterday. More dialogue. More quests. More content. Same relationship between player and game.

That’s not the future. That’s the past with a model plugged into it.

The opportunity isn’t to make old games faster. It’s to invent new forms of play that were impossible until now.

We finally have the technology. Let’s stop remaking the past and build the next generation of games.

Persistent worlds, remembering characters, new forms of play