Artificial intelligence (AI) is not new to the games industry. Both players and developers can acknowledge the contributions of AI to gaming every day. But for developers, AI has become a universal tool that provides enhanced experiences and cost reductions. Why?

In the games industry, developers are often faced with the perennial challenge of reducing their development costs while maintaining a competitive edge. Small teams are building large-scope games while trying to reduce costs. Even larger-than-life productions need to reduce costs while balancing and testing. To create attractive games with amazing user experience; while offsetting costs, studios (big and small) can rely on AI.  

There’s a need for faster, better content, and yet, the tools available to game developers have not been able to keep up with the speeds at which games are being built. 

In comes AI! AI-based tools can automate and augment many of these processes at scale. To meet the ever-changing needs of the gaming industry, modl.ai has created a modern AI engine, now accessible through Unity’s AI Marketplace, for developers to automate and speed up the mundane, slow parts of the game development process by leveraging large numbers of AI bots running at once.

Testing with Game-playing AI

Exploratory testing bots can sweep through content 20 times faster than humans. Using modl AI Engine, modl:test performs continuous exploratory testing to find errors and performance issues automatically, which frees developers from monotonous, time-consuming tasks. 

These types of AI tools can be easily trained to know what to look for in a variety of game types and environments. They can exhaustively explore the game to find any cracks in the system. It’s like having a team of extremely detailed, highly efficient, and well-qualified testers running through a game—everywhere, automatically. Think of it like a Roomba (that can climb walls and ceilings searching for the game’s bugs).

Playing with Stand-In Smart Bots

Harness the power of billions of players on demand. When a game is first launched, it may not have the volume of users it was designed for. With modl:play, the game can be populated with stand-in bots that provide players with the multiplayer game experience expected. The bots learn from new player data to adapt, evolve, and grow with human players to keep them engaged for longer. 

Player stand-in bots combine AI and machine learning to create dynamic, adaptive, and very human-like bots to provide a better player experience, especially when games are new and don’t necessarily have the upsurge of players needed to be successful.