A look at the growing landscape of AI-powered games on Steam, and how indie developers like Outdoor Devs are using generative AI to create entirely new kinds of gameplay that big studios haven't explored yet.
The game design challenges behind creating puzzles where the solution is getting AI characters to say a specific word through conversation. How each character's personality creates different dynamics.
A technical deep dive into how GPT-5 generates character dialog in real time, how Eleven Labs creates distinct voices, and how Deepgram captures player speech for Shouldermen.
The behind-the-scenes story of building Shouldermen — from the initial angel and devil concept to integrating GPT-5 for real-time dialog and Eleven Labs for custom voices.