Throughout an investor presentation earlier at the moment, Ubisoft confirmed off Teammates, a brand new R&D sport expertise that makes use of generative AI. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot additionally described the appearance of generative AI in video games as “a revolution.”
“Generative AI is as huge a revolution for video games because the shift to 3D,” mentioned Guillemot (by way of Game File). “We’re making nice strides in making use of Gen AI to high-value use instances that carry tangible advantages to our gamers and groups… It is as huge [of] a revolution for our trade because the shift to 3D. And we’ve all the things to guide on this entrance.”
Teammates was developed by the workforce behind Neo NPC. The corporate additionally mentioned that the demo is supposed to show that “generative AI-driven gameplay can form a brand new era of extra interactive and interesting video games.”
The sport’s prototype is at present being examined by a small variety of gamers. Teammates is a first-person shooter, however its AI instruments will supposedly let it adapt to voice instructions from the participant, permitting NPCs to dynamically reply in real-time.
“It is actually about experimenting with completely new methods of making interactive tales,” mentioned the sport’s narrative director, Virginie Mosser. “Our position is to offer AI which means, to narrativize it, guaranteeing logic doesn’t substitute soul. We designed Teammates to go away area for participant creativity, discovering that stability between emotion and unpredictability.”
Teammates features a companion character referred to as Jaspar who is claimed to have the ability to assist the participant overcome obstacles and supply hints or methods. In idea, that is not very totally different from different NPCs in quite a few video games. What supposedly makes Jaspar stand out is his means to work together and reply on to the participant.
The Teammates devs word that it has a specifically made Utility Programming Interface (API) that may make the most of guardrails that defend gamers from AI-powered hallucinations and “helps management its energy to place it on the service of human creativity and play.” The corporate additionally characterised Teammates as an experiment that “serves each as a playable prototype and a testbed for the underlying expertise.”
Ubisoft has acknowledged that its new “Artistic Homes” working mannequin can be unveiled in January 2026. Earlier this week, Ubisoft apologized to gamers for together with AI art work in Anno 117: Pax Romana. The substitute picture seems to be just like the AI model, minus just a few individuals with additional fingers or distorted faces.