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closes Dec 31, 2025
By the end of 2024 will there be a mostly AI generated game with $1 million or more in revenue?
30%
chance

This market seeks to predict the ability to use AI to generate meaningful parts of an impressive game.

We are not concerned with precision down to the level of generating a good Settings menu, but trying to take a qualitative look at how relevant overall the AI is.

Individual examples that would cause this market to resolve YES:
- All (or the overwhelming majority) of assets are AI generated -> YES
- All game mechanics are AI generated -> YES
- All the story / dialogue elements are AI generated in a visual novel -> YES

At the end of 2024 if this market closes and no game has met the critera, this market will resolve NO.

FAQ:

  • What counts as a game?

    I am fleshing out two main requirements:
    1. It must be listed as a game for sale on Steam, Epic, game consoles, or equivalent online game storefronts.
    2. There must be tangible game rules, with explicit victory and loss states.
    (Open ended chat sandboxes are not the interesting question, as we basically already have those.)

  • What if the assets are AI-generated but human-edited?

    For the purposes of this market this will NOT count.



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RaulCavalcante avatar
Raul Cavalcantebought Ṁ10 of YES

If it happens it's gonna be an AI Dungeon-like RP game, AI dungeon itself probably had a revenue in the 100's K dollars and the company behind it raised 3.3M dollars https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/04/latitude-seed-funding/

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Isaac Kingis predicting NO at 28%

What if the game it makes is basically a recreation of an existing game, or perhaps a mashup of two similar existing games, that is just different enough to avoid falling afoul of IP laws?

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SneakySly

@IsaacKing That's fine as long as it hits the revenue target.

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Isaac Kingis predicting NO at 28%

How much does the AI have to actually do? Does it have to write the code? Could it just provide the ideas and a human writes the code? Can it generate individual art assets and a human formats them properly to be displayed in the game?

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SneakySly

@IsaacKing Just providing ideas is insufficient.

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Jackson Wagnerbought Ṁ300 of NO

96% of the games on Steam generate less than $1 million in sales: https://gameworldobserver.com/2022/11/29/median-indie-game-earnings-steam-barely-over-1000

So it cannot just be any random experimental indie game where the AI generation is the main draw; it has to actually be a good game that attracts a significant following. Apparently a third of the ~400 games on the Meta Quest store have earned over $1 million (https://uploadvr.com/1-in-3-meta-quest-store-apps-make-millions-in-revenue/), so perhaps the level of quality on the Quest store is a good benchmark for comparison: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/section/258035155854818/

Personally I am doubtful that a high-quality game could be developed, released, and hit $1M revenue on such a short timespan. (Less than two years from now -- we don't currently even have AI that can generate good 3D models!)

I would appreciate some examples of what would cause this market to resolve to "NO", as I could see some game incorporating AI in a fairly basic / limited but high-salience way (ie, the enemies in in a stealth game are RL-trained agents that realistically search for the player, a la "Hello Neighbor", or all the textures are AI generated but then they are applied to human-made game objects), gets a bunch of overhyped headlines as "the first AI-created game!!", but doesn't truly meet the criteria that this market seems to be laying out.

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@JacksonWagner All of your examples would resolve NO.

LarsDoucet avatar
Lars Doucetbought Ṁ10 of YES

I assume the code has to be AI generated too?

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E McNeillis predicting NO at 55%

“Assets” is a pretty broad term! This includes both art and sound, right?

I’m assuming it could count as an “overwhelming majority” of AI-made assets even if the fonts and some UI art are hand-made?

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SneakySly

@EMcNeill Correct!

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I have updated with a FAQ to help to remove ambiguity.

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comsynthus

What if the assets are AI-generated and human-edited? How significant would the human contribution have to be before it stops counting? And if the game is marketed as such but the creators don't reveal the amount of human involvement, which way does this market go?

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@comsynthus This is where my judgement comes into play. The more direct human involvement is needed the less impressive the result. I am willing to update towards something more concrete here.

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By the end of 2024 will there be a mostly AI generated game with $1 million or more in revenue?, 8k, beautiful, illustration, trending on art station, picture of the day, epic composition