Phantom Blade Zero—an upcoming action game from Chinese studio S-Game—was developed with no artificial intelligence, according to the studio's chief executive officer, Qiwei "Soulframe" Liang.
"We are fully aware that a profound technological revolution is unfolding around us. However, to this day, every single piece of content in our game has been crafted by the hands of real artists," Liang wrote in a social media post. "We will not use AI visual tech that could alter our artists' original creative intent."
"Our character models are built upon 3D scans of our phenomenal cast, who also provided the facial capture performances. The voice acting in both Chinese and English has been meticulously refined by our dedicated actors, complete with full lip-syncing for both languages," the post continues.
Liang is immediately addressing the three most common uses for AI: asset generation, translation and voice generation. It's becoming increasingly rare for a studio to wholeheartedly reject the notion of using AI, as it's becoming vogue to make fanciful appeals to efficiency and "enabling creativity."
"Our combat is motion captured by over twenty highly experienced martial artists. To capture the most authentic kung-fu techniques, we consulted directly with the masters and...
