This is an opinion that is only plausible if you completely devalue video games as an art form.

Will you prompt the movies you want instead of watching a movie made by someone else? Will you prompt the novel you want to read? It’s nonsensical in other art form, it’s nonsensical in video games too unless you go for the lowest common denominator friendship or similar.

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dumbmrblah 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s nonsensical that anybody would not want a bespoke chair. IKEA is just a fad.

If it’s functional, good enough, and the price is right people will prompt generate games and share them with or without the gate keeping game industry.

There’s a lot more to this world than software developers.

	▲	bathtub365 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		What is the gatekeeping in the games industry? Quality free game engines have been available for years. Being a game developer has gotten so accessible that the market is completely jammed with titles and discoverability is very difficult. I get the feeling from your post that you feel “ability to write code” was something put in place by “gatekeepers” but not only is that not what “gatekeepers” means, but software developers make up a small part of a game’s production team.
	▲	sashank_1509 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes, games are not furniture. I have no idea wtf if a game is functional even means?

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user43928 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hardly. I argued that we could see a shift to such art being produced by individuals or small teams rather than large commercial studios.