LLM Usage

For game designers LLMs represent a set of intriguing opportunities:

• Being able to assist with content generation, such as news reports.
• Especially for an online or hybrid game, an LLM can take on one or more roles in the game, allowing designers to experiment on where a game might go without taking up anyone else’s time, even playtesters.

Also a game is the ideal situation to test out how well, or how badly, LLMs perform. While the time and effort invested in designing, running, and playing the game is important, it pales in comparison to the real world equivalents of events that take place in the game world. This means we can test the usefulness of LLMs within a sandboxed environment.

Of course we’re very conscious of the limits of LLMs, the apparent fragility of the entire ecosystem supporting them, and the claims being made by their creators compared to how they actually perform.