![]() “Our plan is to onboard about 50 to 100 builders from successful first generation storytelling platforms – Wattpad, Radish Fiction – and get them using our creator tools.” That creator-led approach extends to the addition of AI-powered UGC tools into Scriptic, coming next year. That will always have value for players and for creators.” “I think it’s about organic human curation rather than just putting something into a black box and then just shoving it out on Steam, you know? It has to have that craft, an artistry. ![]() Tharoor and Scriptic are not in that business, he says. Where AI use could get problematic is if creators start flooding the stores with questionably-sourced game content. “We’ve had these conversations with the platform holders and shared that diligence – but you know, it’s an evolving space.” Courtroom drama You Be The Judge was produced using ElevenLabs’ text to speech tools, ChatGPT, Midjourney and Runway. “I mean, we have all the development licences and the business licences with these AI tools, and our legal counsel is always staying on top of them…and we don’t use copyrighted materials to produce content,” he affirms. Tharoor is aware of Steam’s recent crackdown on AI-generated games, and says he is keeping track of the complex rights issues that are being thrown up in this space. And in a way it made the experience more immersive and more terrifying.” “With Dark Mode, the kind of monsters that the AI was coming out with we couldn’t even dream of… like, we wouldn’t be able to brief a costume designer to actually create this stuff because it’s so wild. Generative AI tools have also helped creatively as well, says Tharoor. I’m talking about specifically the media production.” Tharoor estimates that AI tools have effectively eliminated the tens of thousands it previously cost to create a live action Scriptic story. That’s not to say that it costs us $10 to make, obviously – there’s all these other elements that go into it with the content team and dev team. “And actually, all the media that features in that series is equal to about $10. To capture all the media that features in that series would have cost us tens of thousands of dollars if we were doing it as a straight live action production shoot,” he says. “For example, we launched this AI horror anthology called Dark Mode. Previously, a new Scriptic story meant heavy investment in a live-action shoot with canny use of AI tools “that is completely transformed,” says Tharoor. “They’re storytellers that have started to develop and hone this new discipline of prompt engineering.” “I wouldn’t go as far as saying that the content team are prompt engineers – they’re very talented creators, writers, people who’ve written BBC shows, Channel Four shows,” he says. Tharoor is also keen to stress that Scriptic’s use of AI isn’t replacing designers and artists – rather, it is a powerful tool at their disposal. Scriptic’s creative teams are using multiple text, audio and image-based AI tools to create stories in the app. In You Be The Judge, the team used ElevenLabs’ text-to-speech tools plus Midjourney and Runway for image generation.
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