Does anyone have insight into the sudden trend of game decomm / recomp and mashups like Minecraft in GTA, Mario in Skyrim, Cod in Life is Strange, Among us in Portal 2 and so on? What triggered it? Is there a specific new tool, technique or LLM that sparked this interest? I am curious.
Update, found this article to cover the timeline well. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/ai-video-game-mergin...
This tweet is what opened the floodgates: https://nitter.app/chasmmmmmmmmmmm/status/210137541186725513...
Opus 5.5 being cheap and extremely capable + added YouTube virality.
I’ve been doing decompilation with LLMs for 4 months, and 5.5 is so insanely good I now can finish Windows 95-98 games in just a week. And by finish I mean get byte-to-byte exact output from your decompiled code to retail with clear names, semantics and no “Ghidra smell”. With older Opus models you would have to manually guide them and inspect ASM yourself otherwise they will just burn through your tokens (which also used to cost more!)
Example: https://github.com/sushi-shi/homm1-decomp
And I have way more on my gh.
People love a good crossover?