Seems like only yesterday we were talking about AI playing Quake, now AI is making Quake, Quake II to be specific.

Wham is a Generative AI version of Quake II you can play, right now, in your browser. Each frame is generated on the go in response to player input.

Via Design Taxi:

The project, called WHAM, is built on Microsoft’s Muse AI model, which learned how to play and generate Quake II based on a single level’s worth of gameplay data. Using just one week of training, Muse figured out how to recreate the game’s visuals, environments, and basic combat mechanics.

In my very brief research testing, the experience was a bit hallucinatory. Doorways would suddenly disappear and enemies would appear as apparitions phasing in an out of resolution. But, it is still wild that this exists so readily to play.

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