Game titles produced by AI

Andrew Eckel, July 1, 2018

Honoree Ass

Flybractorz

Mist Factory

Alien in the Fires

Limited Card

Learnia

Aton nn Ika: NoGames Out of the Bear 4U For Race (Return of Duck Edition)

Pacman Scenery

Knights & All

Dead Queen

ZapJusticePockets: Americal Tangstone

Curse of Donkey Shock

The Video

Krap

Plecktown

Semi's Eternal Creation Football

Hamblife

Barba: Alliance of Meen Earth

Bible Pink

Pete 2000

Beenage

Worms of Garfield: Shadows of Championship

Big Bird Panic

Two Sharp

Lots of Doom

Cyberry

Manager

Hyppy Strike

The Android™ Computer Cross: Fistfile Waterse & the Park

Winter Cry Race

Great Forget

Honey Talks

Jeepizations

War Walk

Weiny Pro Warrior

Fly Adventures

Chop Snowboard Nebula: England Madness

Fred Space Fop Gutter

Championship Bang

Judgeboardies

Trickomon's Caper McSpin

The Gamehop

The 6 Deer Davis

Battle Battle

Schambler

Land Command 2 II

Galaxy in Love

Sword Ruind 3

Princession

The Putt Raider

WWE Mink Blood (Conquest & A Might)

Highway Abe

World of Lore: The Floppy Hunter

Buzzz - Wizard Fever!

Jellilous

Silent One

Dark vs Frog

Simple Enter

Pirate Devil

Bomberman Dance 1736

Scarquite

The The Dut 7 Superbow

Stata Quiz Right: The Farrier Cheese

Trick Lever

Macs: The Infocom

CaveSnakking You

Space Dutch

Whonos

Dylanders

Computer Rally 18

Open Nor Your Blaster

The Tycoon Ghost Girls of the Power

Farten Kath & 2

CyberBoat

Disney's Unrear Kix

Revenge of Rocks

Men Conflict: Tree Last Baseball 6

Workship

Gear of The Nooper

NHL 1945

Rock Pack

Stormery

Fatestruction

One Extreme 2

House Ball

Soccer: Fighter Bay! II: Switter

Soccer for the Eye

Bubble Defender

Rockshot's Fire War

The Sonicalia

Bang-Bamp

Hallogy

Santa International vs. Mr. Vol. 2

Mega Golf Hockey

Total Doo Wolfonkin

Sports Blood

Spiky Hits

Greeper

Hard Boxing Golf

Madden's Tursh

Apple City

Lake Fighter

Foxes of Soccer

Jones of the Island of Battle Machines

Spy Blast Wars

The!

Broken Simulator

The Nazylamps

Mario Enforcer

Video Fine

Christmoo

Levemon 2: Death Baseball: The Droggoch

Solid Chickeystones

Dractory

Operation Sister

Birdle Beaster

Brick Sing

Zazty

Graama Tennis

Formatron Willbert

Squinbow

NBA Poker

Blood Waster



Flybractorz

Mist Factory

Alien in the Fires

Limited Card

Learnia

Aton nn Ika: NoGames Out of the Bear 4U For Race (Return of Duck Edition)

Pacman Scenery

Knights & All

Dead Queen

ZapJusticePockets: Americal Tangstone

Curse of Donkey Shock

The Video

Krap

Plecktown

Semi's Eternal Creation Football

Hamblife

Barba: Alliance of Meen Earth

Bible Pink

Pete 2000

Beenage

Worms of Garfield: Shadows of Championship

Big Bird Panic

Two Sharp

Lots of Doom

Cyberry

Manager

Hyppy Strike

The Android™ Computer Cross: Fistfile Waterse & the Park

Winter Cry Race

Great Forget

Honey Talks

Jeepizations

War Walk

Weiny Pro Warrior

Fly Adventures

Chop Snowboard Nebula: England Madness

Fred Space Fop Gutter

Championship Bang

Judgeboardies

Trickomon's Caper McSpin

The Gamehop

The 6 Deer Davis

Battle Battle

Schambler

Land Command 2 II

Galaxy in Love

Sword Ruind 3

Princession

The Putt Raider

WWE Mink Blood (Conquest & A Might)

Highway Abe

World of Lore: The Floppy Hunter

Buzzz - Wizard Fever!

Jellilous

Silent One

Dark vs Frog

Simple Enter

Pirate Devil

Bomberman Dance 1736

Scarquite

The The Dut 7 Superbow

Stata Quiz Right: The Farrier Cheese

Trick Lever

Macs: The Infocom

CaveSnakking You

Space Dutch

Whonos

Dylanders

Computer Rally 18

Open Nor Your Blaster

The Tycoon Ghost Girls of the Power

Farten Kath & 2

CyberBoat

Disney's Unrear Kix

Revenge of Rocks

Men Conflict: Tree Last Baseball 6

Workship

Gear of The Nooper

NHL 1945

Rock Pack

Stormery

Fatestruction

One Extreme 2

House Ball

Soccer: Fighter Bay! II: Switter

Soccer for the Eye

Bubble Defender

Rockshot's Fire War

The Sonicalia

Bang-Bamp

Hallogy

Santa International vs. Mr. Vol. 2

Mega Golf Hockey

Total Doo Wolfonkin

Sports Blood

Spiky Hits

Greeper

Hard Boxing Golf

Madden's Tursh

Apple City

Lake Fighter

Foxes of Soccer

Jones of the Island of Battle Machines

Spy Blast Wars

The!

Broken Simulator

The Nazylamps

Mario Enforcer

Video Fine

Christmoo

Levemon 2: Death Baseball: The Droggoch

Solid Chickeystones

Dractory

Operation Sister

Birdle Beaster

Brick Sing

Zazty

Graama Tennis

Formatron Willbert

Squinbow

NBA Poker

Blood Waster

Specifics: What Great Resources I Found, and What Very Little Work I Did

The Sims

Lots of Doom

Revenge of Rocks

Further Reading

I once had a dream I was playing a perfectly normal-seeming video game with the title. I decided to train a recurrent neural network to dream up some fictional video game titles of its own.A recurrent neural network (RNN) is a type of artificial intelligence model that can produce output endlessly, until it makes you sick. For a real definition, see Further Reading below. This project required zero coding of my own. I just downloaded an implementation of an RNN that was already set up, and I trained it on a list of 149,664 video game titles I found online.The RNN started out knowing nothing about language, video games, or the world. It still knows nothing, but now it generates fake game titles. I read 5,000 of the titles it produced and selected my favorites to share. I felt like I was shopping from a mail order catalog. I think that's the best way to enjoy these titles. Imagine it's 1990. There are a bunch of new games on the market, but there's nowhere to read reviews. Would you spend money on one of these games, sight unseen?Not satisfied? Here's another hundred thousand fake titles I haven't even read. If you find this program's output hilarious as I do, having some understanding of what an RNN is won't spoil the magic; it will make it even funnier. Again, see Further Reading.This all started when I emailed my friend Kyle McDonald , just to ask if a couple of amusing AI projects I'd seen online were real or not. He sent me some interesting links, and that got the (crumbling, rusty) gears turning in my (caveman) brain.I downloaded the Docker version of Torch-RNN and ran it with all default settings. For input, I gave it the List of Every Video Game Ever (v3) compiled by Pastebin member DATA_BASER, reaped from the Universal Videogames List and Moby Games , but with the entries shuffled randomly in Sublime Text. Removing all non-English titles would have been nice, but come on, I'm not going to manually edit a list of nearly 150,000 games!For many fake titles, the RNN's output also included the developer, platform, and year, but I removed those details from the list above. Occasionally, the RNN spat out a real title from the list it was trained on, like. I checked all my faves, and none of them were directly from the input. So, I assure you, Princession is a word the RNN invented, and there is no real game calledSome of the titles the RNN produced were so perfectly goofy, I was worried no one would believe I hadn't just made them up.was one of those. There were a bunch more I removed. Seriously.If you're still reading, hey, check out my music videos and animations