Graye Smith

I need help assessing a game created entirely by ChatGPT. Now, I'm completely capable of play testing this game and making notes about what it lacks and what it needs, but I'd actually prefer having this be a community experience. Afterall, LLMs have absorbed everything we've written, it's only fair we group together to criticize its work, right? Not that it'll do much good. ChatGPT is completely immune to any ridicule or attempts to make it feel stupid or inept. Dammit. The rest of this post...

Lately I’ve been feeling a kind of steady, nagging dissatisfaction—with my work, my drawings, my games, even with this blog. Then I learned that one of my old teachers, Joe Hannibal, passed away. Joe taught me brutal honesty in art, and thinking about him made me realize I’ve been running from unfinished work. It’s time to be honest, finish what I started, and push myself toward something bigger.

I’m starting a two-week experiment: letting ChatGPT design a “legendary” card game. I’ll prototype it, playtest it with whoever joins in, and feed the results back to the AI to see if it can actually iterate like a real designer. I don’t expect success, but the process should be fun—and I’ll share updates as it unfolds.