I’m fascinated by procedural generated shapes and occasionally doodle using pen and paper to test ideas. This time my plan was to combine curvy vines and abstract looking rocks in a 2D sidescrolling game, with a shape shifting blob being controlled by the player. After many days of running this idea in my subconscious, I still lacked the imagination to come up with a design that fits my liking, and decided to test the new image generator capabilities of the ChatGPT 4o model (and other AI tools). After a long iterative process spanning a few days, I ended up with concept art images that felt surprisingly close to what I intended to achieve. The reason the game is stuck in the concept art phase is because I came up with better game/demo ideas that are not compatible with this design.

I have way more playtime in Grand Theft Auto V (or GTA Online to be specific) than I would like to admit and most of that I’ve spent with friends I’ve met in the game. It became our little tradition to record funny, exciting or any memorable moments and later create videos of it. At this point there is quite a collection of those videos and I’ve uploaded the ones I made to my youtube channel. Most of the content is only meaningful to us, but I still hope viewers will find them entertaining.