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Hollow Knight diffusion world model trained from scratch on 400k gameplay frames

A user has developed an interactive diffusion world model trained from scratch using approximately 400,000 frames of their own gameplay from the video game Hollow Knight. The model, built without pre-trained weights or LoRAs, can respond to player inputs such as movement, dashing, and attacking, generating gameplay clips in real-time. While still in early development and prone to occasional errors, the creator is impressed by its learning capabilities with the given dataset size and plans to improve consistency and add more gameplay data, with the eventual goal of a playable browser demo. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates potential for training game-specific AI models from limited, user-generated data.

RANK_REASON User-created research project using AI for game mechanics simulation. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Hollow Knight diffusion world model trained from scratch on 400k gameplay frames

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  1. r/StableDiffusion TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/gamajuice1 ·

    I trained an interactive Hollow Knight diffusion world model from scratch on around 400k frames of my own gameplay

    <table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1uzkwt0/i_trained_an_interactive_hollow_knight_diffusion/"> <img alt="I trained an interactive Hollow Knight diffusion world model from scratch on around 400k frames of my own gameplay" src="https://previ…