From the outside, Assassin's Creed Hexe looks pretty interesting. An AC game set during the witch trials of the Holy Roman Empire sounds neat, and it seems everyone at the studio wants to be part of it. However, development doesn't seem to be going well. The project has already lost two of its leads, and around 50 developers.
One of those former leads was creative director, Clint Hocking, and no reason was given for his departure. While we can only guess what happened, Hocking recently spoke about the use of AI in game development. He not only said that the integration will be inevitable, but also admitted to using ChatGPT to learn how to code. However, he did admit that it "sucked".
In an interview with Edge Magazine (via GamesRadar+), Hocking said that he used AI to help him learn how to code. "It was brutal. ChatGPT kind of sucked. It didn't really know how to code. Everything was broken," he said. "It was mostly me trying to debug code without knowing how to code myself."
However, after a year and a half, Hocking gave up on ChatGPT and learned how to code using Javascript. As for if AI helped...
