Ikea made a Skyrim mod starring Matt Berry as a sentient shelf named Kallax Storageborn
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I'm not normally one for playing RPGs but this might get me to finally play skyrim.
There's also a nude mod for the shelf mod.
WHAT THE BLAZES
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssss
I wanted to try the shelf mod. But now……. I want to try the shelf mod!
I'm not sure I believe you but I don't know enough about dragons to debate it
Ads are fucking gross, fuck off with this shit.
Why are people downvoting this person?
I work in video games. Watching the evolution and integration of AI into the development process over the last few months has made me aware that a new era of commercialization is coming for games. AI makes these sort of projects, as in a joke someone makes in a marketing meeting, reasonably attainable for a small team or even a single person. Arcade.gov, the disgusting travesty that is, was made possible because someone can vibe code that dogshit with a one-shot prompt.
I’m sorry, fellow poster. This is only the beginning. 😞I like Matt Berry & IKEA, but this stuff is going to be normalized aggressively over the next year. I hope it can be offset by the tools allowing new creatives to exist who wouldn’t have gotten the funding or chance prior.
This is far from the beginning, Tapper came out over 40 years ago and that's just a Budweiser ad. I (out of sheer boredom) played Sneak King 20 years ago, where you're the creepy big-headed Burger King mascot from their tv ads and you have to sneak around and surprise people with burgers. It sucked, Tapper's way better. You're definitely right that llms are going to make it worse, but advergaming has been around just about as long as video games themselves.
You’re right, there’s a few examples in the past. Cool Spot comes to mind as well, Pepsi man too.
What I mean is really the scale change. Whereas we have a handful from the past, I suspect a quantity that’s hard to process is on the horizon. If you don’t need a game to exist longer than 15 mins or something, you can vibe code that in a week or less as a solo.
The post’s example likely required more work from Matt than whoever did the mod implementation. Companions aren’t too complicated, and the hardest part technically would be visually representing the shelves’ inventory on the actor model itself. I would bet the content is Matt delivering a few specific lines at particularly important plot points & otherwise a bunch of canned phrases.
This isn’t to disparage the effort, Matt, or the devs. I’m trying to highlight how accessible video games projects are with AI vibe coding, especially within a controlled scope.
I feel like people have forgotten that the very first Steam Workshop mod was a similar type of ad.
also very charming lore.
I guess the writer didn't even go to the effort of installing the mod...
As a chronically-overencumbered item hoarder, this might be the best Skyrim mod ever.
Could someone kindly explain the origin story on this?
Matt Berry?? Fucking sold already.