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Oct 5Mon
  1. Chuapp35

    Eggy Party UGC watch: from making maps to making products, creators move toward studio-style operations

    Three groups of Eggy Party UGC creators describe how they went from making maps as a hobby to forming teams and turning park maps into long-running products. The Gemini Editor announced at the official July creator conference runs the frame-synced Origin Editor and the state-synced World Editor in parallel, and the September update added map preloading, asset hall cleanup, and the Tripo P2.0 model for AI model generation.

    Why it matters: The three creators' accounts trace the Eggy Party UGC path from making maps to making products, offering a look at how platform tools and incentives support long-term commercial operations.

Sep 16Wed
  1. AI and Games58

    Why the Steam AI Gaming Festival Is Drawing Backlash Against AI in Games

    The AI Gaming Festival on Steam is hosted by US technology company Invirtu Labs and centers on showing how generative AI can take over development tasks such as art assets, code, narrative, localization, voice and music. The author notes that the event is connected to Glitch, the indie game platform owned by its organizer Devin Dixon, giving it the feel of promotion for his own platform. He also says the accompanying talks are in fact a paid virtual conference, and questions whether some of the participating games were added without their developers' knowledge.

    Why it matters: The article traces the organizer's ties to its own platform Glitch and lays out why this Steam event is seen as drumming up support for generative AI rather than explaining it.