Cross-geposted von: https://feddit.org/post/35232923
From your good friends at Microsoft, known for such advancements as laying off most of our game developers, raising the cost of consoles and providing cloud services for the Israeli military comes the next big step for videogames Introducing vibe gaming
What if, instead of controlling every move your game character made, you could tell them what you wanted and watch them live, act, and connect with others on their own in the changing game world? (…)
In VEGA, every character begins with a soul shaped by its player. A soul is open-ended guidance about who the character is and how it might live in the world. (…)
Vibe gaming brings autonomous living, player influence, and character collaboration into the same shared experience.
For the prototypes and demonstrations in this article, our testbed is Luanti, an open-source voxel game platform.
So Microsoft, who own Minecraft, are using the open source clone instead of their own product?
Yes, and then they filed a DMCA notice against the game for copyright infringement (or rather Tracer.ai did on Microsoft’s behalf). Literally two weeks after the blog post.
https://blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/luanti-dmca-tracer-ai/?ref=anyfeeds
The notice has since been withdrawn, but still…
I thought this was too tier rage bait
Yes let’s take something like player control which is fast, efficient and direct and see how we can make it inefficient, convoluted, imprecise and laggy. I can somewhat understand if they use it for NPCs but what is the point here other than making a worse player experience?
Because the goal isn’t to create a game, it’s to make an interactive movie or at best a “passive game”. You give commands and then you watch your character try and do them. To give them some credit it’s not the worst idea in the world, it’s miles better than the game world shit Google tried to do. But knowing Microslop they’ll fuck up the implementation in a spectacular fashion.
Maybe the goal is to train better NPCs, and they’re hoping it’s enough of a novelty that real players will do that training for them?
its a research project. a bunch of chinese kids wanted to try something. microsoft research does weird stuff all the time.
