Players as creators. UGC in the age of AI

From map editors, to mods, Minecraft, to Roblox games have seen a continual rise of the player as creator. Now with AI, the barrier between imagination and play is dissolving. In this talk, Andy Mauro (CEO of Storycraft) explores how AI-powered creativity is opening up new gameplay paradigms, why storytelling is the missing piece in user-generated content, and how the next generation of games will let players not just plays stories, but to tell their own.