Tag: game design
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Left to their own devices, an army of AI characters didn’t just survive — they thrived. They developed in-game jobs, shared memes, voted on tax reforms and even spread a… more ›
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Niantic has trained more than 50 million neural nets to date, where multiple networks can contribute to a single location. All these networks combined comprise over 150 trillion parameters optimized… more ›
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Our world runs on randomly generated numbers and without them a surprising proportion of modern life would break down. So, why are they so hard to find? The friends did… more ›
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Roblox is building toward 4D generative AI, going beyond single 3D objects to dynamic interactions. Solving the challenge of 4D will require multimodal understanding across appearance, shape, physics, and scripts.… more ›
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Freelance illustrator Amber Yu used to make 3,000 to 7,000 yuan ($430 to $1,000) for every video game poster she drew. Making the promotional posters, published on social media to… more ›
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Warner Bros released a new Harry Potter title last month and took $850m in two weeks. That made it the second-most-successful Potter launch in the film studio’s history. But “Hogwarts… more ›
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Created in late 2021, Critterz incorporates nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrency into the Minecraft universe, bringing a “play to earn” model to the best-selling video game of all time. Players… more ›
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Gamification — the use of ideas from game design for purposes beyond entertainment — is everywhere. It’s in our smartwatches, cajoling us to walk an extra thousand steps for a… more ›
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The last time anybody heard from Marissa Marcel was in 1999. The Hollywood star, whose movies include a 1968 erotic thriller called Ambrosio and the unreleased 1970 murder mystery Minsky,… more ›