The hyper-realistic AI-driven interactive work, 'Beyond the Mortal World,' crafted by a dedicated team of 20, garnered an impressive 87% positive review rate on the Steam platform merely three weeks post-launch. It is projected to have amassed nearly ten million in revenue and lured over 260,000 players. Leveraging AI as its cornerstone for productivity, this work utilized models and cloud services from Volcano Engine to accomplish its development in a mere nine months, with production costs amounting to only one-third of those incurred through traditional methods. This achievement underscores that AI can significantly lower the barriers to game production, empowering small teams to create high-caliber works, and demonstrates that players are indeed willing to pay for AI-enhanced games. The core game assets were generated by the Doubao series of multimodal models, which adeptly handled video, image, and voice production tasks, while the team focused on setting, screening, and reviewing. Moreover, the team implemented techniques such as layer separation, state machine connection, and 2D-3D real-time synthesis to enable AI-generated static video assets to dynamically respond to player interactions. Concurrently, relying on the automated production system constructed by Volcano Engine to interconnect all links, a comprehensive production pipeline was established, where human judgment takes the lead and AI is tasked with generation and connection, thereby pioneering a novel path for AI games to facilitate product launches and garner commercial feedback.
