no. All game engines aren't built equally, it'll all be an approximate mush at best. But also it's a terrible concept even when done by humans, see ready player one

I don't get it.

leileilol wrote on 2026-10-05, 11:35:

no. All game engines aren't built equally, it'll all be an approximate mush at best. But also it's a terrible concept even when done by humans, see ready player one

the more i looked into it the less "merged" the games are

games being "merged" tend all to be ones that can be readily modded, and much of this seems to be actually the modding of one game with the game logic or assets of another - still impressive but not like a hybrid recompilation of two games into one

its the mod-ability of the game that creates the context for ai assisted activities, in other words there's lots of info to work with

if we just chose two lesser known and un moddable games and tried the same this it wouldn't work well, it would at best be possible to eventually work a decompilation back into compilable source and then adjust that code with bits learned from other decompiled games

although maybe i misunderstood that too 😀

Reminds of the old Quake mod Airquake, which abused the quake engine to produce a crude flight simulator.

Ironically (or maybe serendipitously), I read this topic, open another forum, and the first thing I see is this video.

the only good 'merged game' is ROM CHECK FAIL

It's all been done as a Doom WAD years ago anyway. 🤣

Seriously though, remember seeing a mario kart one throwing turtles etc. I bet you can find just about anything if you wanna comb through a few million obscure Doom WADs.

BitWrangler wrote on 2026-10-08, 03:12:

It's all been done as a Doom WAD years ago anyway. 🤣

There's this, and AFAIK it uses no AI and is all based on DeHackEd alone. Projects like this just amplify the contrast between the labour-of-love hand-crafted stuff people are capable of making and the no-effort slop that AI churns out for the instant gratification of those who don't know better.