Aren’t we done with games yet? Some would say that while games were useful for AI research for a while, our algorithms have mastered them now, and it is time to move to real problems in the real world. I would say that AI has barely gotten started with games, and we are more likely …
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Making a videogame is never an easy task, and what doesn’t help are all the bugs we encounter along the way. Sometimes a mechanic that worked just fine yesterday is no longer behaving as it should. Or two features have been introduced to the game that don’t play nicely with each other. The more of …
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77% of gamers are likely to stop playing an online game if they believe opponents are cheating. How can AI help us find and exclude cheaters? Have you ever tried to play against a cheater? It wasn’t fun when we played Monopoly at the kitchen table as kids, and it isn’t fun in online games. …
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In December 2020, Flamebait Games released Forge and Fight. A game where you gather parts and forge them into over-the-top weapons and engage in frenzied fighting, either in an online arena or the open-ended sandbox mode. I sat down with the CEO of Flamebait Games, Mattias Lindblad, and CEO of modl.ai, Christoffer Holmgård, and asked …
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We auto-generated hundreds of match-3 levels for Candy Crush Saga using different methods to see if we could pass them off as human-generated levels. Capturing patterns and creating symmetry were the main ingredients of the succeeding algorithm. If you’ve played a lot of Candy Crush Saga, you might be able to answer this: Which of …
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Lack of testing can result in bad PR, delays, and millions in refunds — and your players care!
Testing a video game for bugs and glitches can be tiresome and repetitive! AI can solve that for you.
