Vernissage: AI-Generated Video Game About Contemporary Art Released by Francesco D'Isa

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• Vernissage is a video game set in the contemporary digital art world, created by OpenAI's ChatGPT-6 Astra from a prompt by Italian artist Francesco D'Isa.
• Players collect money from collectors and avoid scammers and AI protesters; inspiration depletes and causes game over but can be regenerated by viewing artworks or meeting appreciative people.
• The game's style is explicitly inspired by 1990s first-person shooters like Doom (id Software, 1993).
• D'Isa also released Antropocene, a side-scrolling beat 'em up in the style of 1980s and 1990s arcade games, where players defeat a far-right axis represented by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.
• Vernissage was made with a single prompt, and its playability is seen as an achievement unlikely with previous AI models.
• The US government recently published AI-developed games in an 'Arcade' section of the White House website, including a Tetris variant about the US-Mexico border wall (withdrawn after The Tetris Company threatened a copyright lawsuit) and a Snake game about capturing immigrants.
• Vibe coding—generating entire software from text prompts—produces code that is difficult to manage and maintain, and users often do not understand its logic.
• The spread of computing as a daily tool has not been matched by true digital literacy, and vibe coding further obscures how code materially operates the machine.