The medium of video games has continued to see groundbreaking innovations as every year passes. It’s crazy to look at the increase in graphical fidelity, mechanical complexity, and modes of interaction since the early days of the Atari 2600 and the Nintendo Entertainment System. Sure, one of them almost killed the industry while the other …
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Cult of the Lamb wants to be the game your mom warned you about when you were a kid. It is a game about old gods, false prophets, demonic possession, and heretical cults. It goes hard for an edgy aesthetic, mixing cute and gory in a 2.5D hand-drawn style. The gameplay is largely comprised of …
Creating Your Own Story We’ve all experienced it in a big action-adventure game: the enemy gives a speech, we get into a big boss fight, we take them down and move along. Sure, there might be some stakes to it all, and the characters might have some history, but it’s not a story in that …
Poker is one of the most popular card games in the world. While it might look like a rather simple game on first passing, with a handful of cards and simple betting actions, the way it is designed leads to a lot of complexity that makes it hard for humans to master, much less …
At modl.ai our goal is to help make game production smarter and faster thanks to our expertise in artificial intelligence. But in order to create the future of AI for games, we need to know its history as well. So in this History of AI in Games series, we’re taking a look at how AI …
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Unless you have been avoiding most social media and its discourse, it is hard to think about 2022 in games without mentioning Elden Ring. Somewhat of a spiritual successor to Dark Souls and its ilk, with Elden Ring FromSoftware delivers a new world and a slightly different approach to their usual games. And it is …
The AI revolution is in full swing. Modern artificial intelligence methods for learning, reasoning, planning, and optimizing are changing the rules of many industries, from advertising and social media to mining or manufacturing. But not video games. At least, not yet.This may sound strange to many. Don’t all video games have AI that controls the …
If you’ve spent anytime playing videogames, you’re bound to come across first-person shooters, with everything from DOOM to Overwatch, Battlefield, and PUBG having a big impact on the types of games we play and how we play them together. Given their popularity and continued development, they have subsequently proven influential in the development of artificial …
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Raft is a serene yet challenging cooperative survival-crafting game that casts you adrift at sea on a small raft menaced by an unrelenting great white Shark. It can be played single player but the real magic is joining a group of friends to work together on transforming your raft from rickety planks into a floating …
Developments in AI are rapidly changing many industries, including games. Today, global game developers like Ubisoft and EA, or game engine companies such as Unity, have their own AI research divisions. Advances in AI mean that aspects of the games we play are becoming more realistic, whilst on the development side AI-based tools are automating …
