🔎 Public Eye: A Detective Game Where AI Drives the Story
Wolf Games, a startup developing AI-powered detective games, has secured $4 million in funding. Investors include Law & Order creator Dick Wolf and producer Jimmy Iovine, co-founder of Interscope Records and Beats Electronics.
The studio's first game, Public Eye, is set in 2028. In this future, technology has triggered a crime wave that authorities can't control. To fight back, the police enlist everyday citizens — the players — who receive new cases daily, assisted by an AI partner named ADA.
AI generates every story in real-time, shaped by player choices. The algorithms draw inspiration from CBS and NBC crime headlines. AI also creates character interviews and crime scene photos. Plans include adapting popular TV show plots into a gaming format.
Public Eye is set to launch this summer, but you can already join the waitlist.
Wolf Games co-founder Elliot Wolf feels that employing AI to cut expenses in traditional games, TV, or movies is a "waste of time." "With our generative gaming platform, we're creating entirely new forms of entertainment that were once impossible," he declares. However, YouTube ⤴️ comments under the Public Eye trailer criticize the project for being lifeless and using low-quality AI-generated images.
"Good concept backed by horrible shity AI that has no place in any creative industry," wrote one viewer.
Would you play Public Eye?
❤️ — yes, love the idea!
🙈 — nope, not for me
🤔 — looks interesting, but the trailer is a bit off...