# AI as a player, not a plugin: Lineage creator Song Jae-kyung headlines OpenAI’s Seoul Game Builders event

In Brief: NEXUS adviser Song Jae-kyung, the developer who created Lineage, opened OpenAI Game Builders Seoul on Aug. 31 with a keynote making the case that AI's next chapter in games is as a participant, not a development tool. By his account, Codex carried him to 160,000 lines of code across eight

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| Published | 31 August 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/ai-as-a-player-not-a-plugin-lineage-creator-song-jae-kyung-headlines-openais-seoul-game-builders-event/