{"id":77689,"date":"2026-05-08T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77689"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:36:29","slug":"kingdom-come-dev-talks-risks-and-benefits-of-ai-and-losing-players-if-games-are-too-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77689","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom Come Dev Talks Risks And Benefits Of AI And Losing Players If Games Are Too Difficult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the new creative directors at Kingdom Come studio Warhorse, Prokop Jirsa, has commented on the hot-button issue of using artificial intelligence in game development. His comments come at a time when Warhorse was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/kingdom-come-2-dev-uses-ai-but-not-for-final-game-assets\/1100-6539741\/\"> accused a firing a translator to help save costs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jirsa told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/warhorses-new-creative-director-tells-us-why-the-secret-sauce-for-kingdom-come-deliverance-is-making-things-difficult-for-players-the-usual-answer-is-ok-lets-get-rid-of-the-friction-we-dont-work-like-that\/\">PC Gamer<\/a> that he understands why people hate when art is generated with AI, and that&#8217;s because he hates it, too. While using AI to generate art that would be released to the public is not something Jirsa is interested in, he said the technology can be &#8220;really helpful&#8221; during development in other ways. That includes AI-assisted programming efforts and coming up with concept art with genAI.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even if you&#8217;re not a programmer, for example, you can code little things that help you. Not necessarily something that will be used in the game, but, for example, you&#8217;ll be able to access some information in a more comprehensible way \u2026 or, for example, quick generation of some concept art, so you can actually communicate better to concept artists what you need,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Jirsa also echoed the opinions of many others in gaming in that he believes people are generally overstating what AI technologies are capable of. &#8220;These<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the new creative directors at Kingdom Come studio Warhorse, Prokop Jirsa, has commented on the hot-button issue of using artificial intelligence in game development. His comments come at a time when Warhorse was accused a firing a translator to help save costs. Jirsa told PC Gamer that he understands why people hate when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":77691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77692,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77689\/revisions\/77692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}