Sequoia investing into DecaartAI for engineless game creation

Sequoia, a tech investment firm, has announced that they are investing heavily into DecaartAI, using a demo codenamed Oasis to show off the new generative AI technologies. In this case, DecartAI presented a fully playable version of Microsoft and Mojang’s Minecraft not running on a game engine.

In the demo, the game is not being dictated by logic, claims Decaart. It is being created pixel-by-pixel in realtime through generative AI.

“Oasis takes in user keyboard input and generates real-time gameplay, including physics, game rules, and graphics,” Decaart writes in a blog post. “You can move around, jump, pick up items, break blocks, and more. There is no game engine; just a foundation model.”

The demo can be played here on Chrome.

It might be more accurate to argue that Oasis is an interactive video that takes input that is different from what is traditionally referred to as a video game. But it might be an example of how game creation is changing due to AI, as the idea of an engine-less model might birth new terms as developers come to grips with the technology.