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Re:Launch HN: Rosebud (YC S19) – Turn game descriptions into... by btown on Thursday January 04, 2024 @11:19AM (#38868811)
Next up: an AI that can watch a deceptive mobile game ad and actually create the game that they're falsely advertising!

Jokes aside, this is very cool. There's always the interesting tension of vendor lock-in vs. portability that defines the low-code space. Roblox's social ecosystem allowed it to make exclusivity to its platform a selling point to incentivize creators, but that might be harder for browser delivery - will people use you to prototype, then need to leave you once they want to move towards commercialization? To engender that ecosystem, finding a way to keep people on platform beyond a single game session will be an interesting challenge - but you have a tremendous ability to recommend related games to people and understand engagement with specific parts of a game.

On another note:

> Rosebud is in fact a reference to the cheat code in The Sims

There's something incredibly poetic about Citizen Kane being remembered more for its influence on a game than anything else - which, I think, would delight the character.

Re:Launch HN: Rosebud (YC S19) – Turn game descriptions into... by somedude895 on Thursday January 04, 2024 @12:45PM (#38869970)
> watch a deceptive mobile game ad and actually create the game that they're falsely advertising!

Guy called Fat Dino on Youtube actually does that. His videos are pretty entertaining: https://youtube.com/@FatDino?si=4r2wKj63ohClIXxD

Re:Launch HN: Rosebud (YC S19) – Turn game descriptions into... by Chaow-Rosebud on Thursday January 04, 2024 @02:23PM (#38871119)
Genius!
Re:Launch HN: Rosebud (YC S19) – Turn game descriptions into... by lishali88 on Thursday January 04, 2024 @11:33AM (#38868992)
There’s definitely a lot to learn from Roblox! The first thing they got right was to make it many orders of magnitude simpler to make games than the incumbents of the time, that’s why it was so easy for Roblox to get many fun games on their platform and build an audience. This is also why we're emphasizing leaning into an AI native approach to have a unique advantage to making creation easier. Following that, as you say, enabling monetization on a browser based platform will be a necessary later step to keep creators incentivized. I think there’s no technical constraint to making monetization possible on our platform, so we are just not choosing to focus on this first because if we can show that the creation experience is far better on our platform, then it will bring a lot more users into it to make the platform even more attractive for creators.

Our belief is also that there’s no platform currently that makes it easy to deploy agent based games, where AI characters and dynamic AI agents are used in game. Given how popular even some basic AI character games are (look at the usage of Character AI!!), if we make such games easier to create, I trust that creators will be able to make very popular games. We’ve been having live game jams biweekly on our discord (next one next week!) and already see some magic being made, even in the closed beta!

Re:Launch HN: Rosebud (YC S19) – Turn game descriptions into... by lishali88 on Thursday January 04, 2024 @11:36AM (#38869029)
Would be amazing if we can make that happen (re the Citizen Kane reference)!
Re:Launch HN: Rosebud (YC S19) – Turn game descriptions into... by rzzzt on Thursday January 04, 2024 @01:52PM (#38870762)
It is in fact a reference to "How to Dial a Murder", an episode of Columbo.
Re:Launch HN: Rosebud (YC S19) – Turn game descriptions into... by toyg on Friday January 05, 2024 @05:51AM (#38877730)
I've not seen the episode but I expect that is in turn a reference to Citizen Kane. In showbiz there is only one "Rosebud".
Re:Launch HN: Rosebud (YC S19) – Turn game descriptions into... by qbert on Friday January 05, 2024 @02:06PM (#38883229)
"Citizen Kane" predates "Columbo".
Re:Launch HN: Rosebud (YC S19) – Turn game descriptions into... by diqi on Thursday January 04, 2024 @03:14PM (#38871666)
> Next up: an AI that can watch a deceptive mobile game ad and actually create the game that they're falsely advertising!

Would love if it could create Age of Origins, I always like watching the ads

Re:Launch HN: Rosebud (YC S19) – Turn game descriptions into... by cobertos on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:13PM (#38875284)
Or perhaps the AI can generate a somewhat passable mobile game that can then be filled with ads and micro transactions en masse to fill an app store?

Painful to think about, bringing down the cost of content generation

Re:Launch HN: Rosebud (YC S19) – Turn game descriptions into... by notJim on Friday January 05, 2024 @01:36PM (#38882762)
> There's something incredibly poetic about Citizen Kane being remembered more for its influence on a game than anything else - which, I think, would delight the character.

Spoilers!