Veteran game dev with 30+ years backs AI-made games: 'great games shouldn't have gatekeepers'
draginol · x · 2026-09-30
A game developer of 30+ years who does programming, art and writing applauds the AI Games Festival idea, arguing against gatekeeping AI-assisted game creation:
- He recalls starting out with Deluxe Paint and simple sprites, selling games at Walmart, CompUSA and EB while working three jobs in college — when a poor student could make commercially viable games
- As barriers to entry rose over the years, games became "a stew of safe pap"
- His core claim: great games come from imagination; making games shouldn't have gatekeepers, and it would be a creative tragedy if the next generation of developers were harassed out of the field for using AI
Context: he quotes a joke proposal for an AI Games Festival covering every game made in 2027, on the assumption everyone will use Claude or Codex by then, with human-generated content still welcome.
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