{"id":188520,"date":"2025-12-17T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/188520\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T01:56:09","slug":"youtube-is-letting-creators-make-playable-games-with-a-gemini-3-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/188520\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube is letting creators make playable games with a Gemini 3 tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Google&#8217;s at it again, once more insisting that AI is something people need or want more of in their lives. The latest move comes from YouTube Gaming, which <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/YouTubeGaming\/status\/2000989303086649637\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:announced;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">announced<\/a> an open beta for a project called Playables Builder. This allows select YouTube Creators to use a &#8220;prototype web app built using Gemini 3&#8221; to make bite-sized games, no coding required.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">YouTube was testing the addition of <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/youtube-is-testing-bitesize-games-on-desktop-and-mobile-163742756.html?guccounter=1\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:small-scale games;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">small-scale games<\/a> to its desktop and mobile platforms back in 2023, then added <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/youtube-introduces-multiplayer-mini-games-on-playables-133056235.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:multiplayer capability;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplayer capability<\/a> to Playables last year. Since AI is appearing all over Google-owned services, today&#8217;s news probably shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The premise sounds similar to the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/google-disco-is-an-experimental-web-browser-that-builds-ai-widgets-based-on-your-tabs-180000701.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:Disco and GenTabs;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disco and GenTabs<\/a> projects that Google Labs recently announced. They offer an AI layer to web browsing: provide a natural language input, get an interactive widget that does what you asked for. Despite my skeptical attitude toward AI, I can see those tools having some practical applications for search, where the goal is to aggregate whatever data you&#8217;re looking for into a manageable, easy-to-read interface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">But a game is not simple. A good game takes what might be a simple idea and, with finesse and iteration and skill, transforms it into a genuinely fun experience. It&#8217;s a cute parlor trick that AI assistants can help people to make stuff without technical knowledge, but there&#8217;s a reason professional game devs work hard to amass all their know-how. Playables Builder is a peak example of misunderstanding what artificial intelligence is best at. Just because a chatbot can make a game doesn&#8217;t mean anyone will enjoy playing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s at it again, once more insisting that AI is something people need or want more of in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,133,108609,85,46,108611,108610,125,678,108607,108608],"class_list":{"0":"post-188520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-google-labs","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-playables-builder","16":"tag-prototype-web","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-youtube","19":"tag-youtube-creators","20":"tag-youtube-gaming"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}