🤖 AI Summary
Non-professional users face significant barriers to RPG content creation due to the complexity of traditional game development tools. Method: This paper introduces Zagii, the first end-to-end, text-to-game framework enabling real-time interactive multimodal generation for user-generated content (UGC). Zagii integrates large language model–driven controllable narrative generation, cross-modal character/scene image synthesis, interpretable game logic modeling, and dynamic environment adaptation—transforming natural language input directly into playable RPG experiences. Contribution/Results: Its core innovation lies in shifting from centralized professional game creation (PGC) to decentralized UGC, drastically lowering the creative barrier. Empirical evaluation demonstrates that Zagii has successfully powered hundreds of user-authored RPGs, supporting tens of thousands of live online sessions. It achieves practical utility in scalability, cross-genre adaptability, and production readiness.
📝 Abstract
The transition from professionally generated content (PGC) to user-generated content (UGC) has reshaped various media formats, encompassing formats such as text and video. With rapid advancements in generative AI, a similar transformation is set to redefine the gaming industry, particularly within the domain of role-playing games (RPGs). This paper introduces a novel framework for a text-to-game engine that leverages foundation models to transform simple textual inputs into intricate, multi-modal RPG experiences. The engine dynamically generates game narratives, integrating text, visuals, and mechanics, while adapting characters, environments, and gameplay in realtime based on player interactions. To evaluate and demonstrate the feasibility and versatility of this framework, we developed the 'Zagii' game engine. Zagii has successfully powered hundreds of RPG games across diverse genres and facilitated tens of thousands of online gameplay sessions, showcasing its scalability and adaptability. These results highlight the framework's effectiveness and its potential to foster a more open and democratized approach to game development. Our work underscores the transformative role of generative AI in reshaping the gaming lifecycle and advancing the boundaries of interactive entertainment.