Dogs Can’t Drive - And AI Alone Can’t Build Great Games Either
- John Thornewill
- 3 days ago
- 1 min read

You can teach a dog a thousand tricks, but it’s never going to fly a plane.
In the same way, no matter how many prompts you feed into today’s AI tools, they’re not going to magically create a coherent, commercial-quality game world on their own.
Yet, this is exactly what many people are expecting.
The problem is simple:
Tricks aren’t vision. And patterns aren’t creativity.
AI is incredible at recognising, predicting and generating. But direction still has to come from somewhere. Meaning still belongs to humans. Stories, worlds, emotion, those things don’t arrive through automation. They arrive through imagination.
And that’s where we come in.
At Red Nought, we believe AI shouldn’t replace creators.
It should amplify them.
We’re building Baldr Engine as a platform where human creativity leads and AI accelerates the process. A place where imagination sets the direction and technology clears the path forward.
With Baldr, anyone — regardless of technical expertise or visual ability — can create entire game worlds in days instead of months. No walls of code. No impossible learning curves. Just ideas, translated into living, playable environments.
Accessibility isn’t an add-on. It’s built in from the start.Because creativity should never be gated behind technical barriers.
Baldr Engine is more than just another tool.
It’s a bridge between stories and worlds.And it changes everything.
If you’d like to explore what game creation looks like when human creativity and AI work together (not as rivals, but as partners), you’re invited to step inside.
The world is ready.
Now it’s your move.
John Thornewill
24th November 2025






