Games aren't cooked. AI hype influencers are cooked.
Okay, this is pretty insane. I just had GPT-6 Astra one-shot this entire game, which had pulled in $7.6 million USD when it launched. This is Kingdom: Classic.
I had wanted to play it, bought it off steam but found that it was unfortunately not compatible with my mac. So instead, I opened up Astra, told it to look at this game and perfectly recreate it with all its features so that I could play this on web. Within as little as half an hour, I had a fully working game I was enjoying, and it had ALL the features of the original
I had hinted at this before, but I am seeing fewer and fewer reasons to purchase games anymore as AI progresses. If I can just tell the AI to look at a game and read up all the aspects and mechanics and it can recreate it for me at a fraction of the price, what's the point of buying it new?
This can be said for mobile games too, the unbearable ads, etc. You can just recreate the game in a minute and have all the "premium" features you could have desired. Hook it up on an automated rig that reads any patch notes/updates and you're not missing out on much.
(Apart from ofcourse multiplayer games, single player games are pretty cooked IMO)