Minecraft developer Mojang has no intention of incorporating generative synthetic intelligence into its sport improvement course of.
The ever-increasing creep of generative AI into sport improvement makes itself evident by the day, whether or not it’s Activision admitting to utilizing generative AI artwork in Name of Obligation: Black Op 6, or Microsoft constructing Muse, an AI designed to “generate sport concepts.”
However, by the sound of it, Mojang has no plans of benefiting from its father or mother firm’s new know-how, a lot preferring the human contact that resulted in Minecraft changing into the biggest-selling sport of all time with an unimaginable 300 million gross sales.
“Right here for us, identical to Minecraft is about creativity and creating,” said Minecraft Vanilla sport director Agnes Larsson throughout a latest occasion attended by IGN, “I feel it is essential that it makes us really feel glad to create as people. That is a objective, [it] makes life look lovely. So for us, we actually need it to be our groups that make our video games.”
Ingela Garneij, govt producer of Minecraft Vanilla, expanded on this sentiment: “For me, it is the considering outdoors of the field half. This particular contact of: what’s Minecraft? How does it look? That additional high quality is absolutely tough to create via AI. We even attempt to have distant groups typically and information them in constructing issues for us, which has by no means labored, as a result of it’s a must to be right here working collectively face-to-face.
“I imply creativity is… you have to meet like this as an individual, as a human to essentially actually perceive the values and rules and the ecosystem, the lore, all the things. It is so large Minecraft, it is a planet, it is large.”
The people making Minecraft proceed to construct on its record-breaking foundations. The newly revealed graphics replace, titled Vibrant Visuals, is due out within the close to future, and Mojang continues to refuse to make Minecraft free-to-play. This philosophy of enhancing and increasing the unique sport additionally goes hand-in-hand with Mojang’s need to not make a “Minecraft 2.” It could be 16 years outdated now, however there’s actually no signal of Minecraft slowing down, and no signal of generative AI discovering its method into the Nether.
Take a look at all the things introduced at Minecraft Reside 2025 for extra on what’s coming to the sport.
Simon Cardy is a Senior Editorial Producer who can primarily be discovered skulking round open world video games, indulging in Korean cinema, or despairing on the state of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Comply with him on Bluesky at @cardy.bsky.social.