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Writing on game design, product, and the industry.
AI Game Development & Marketing
Some teams are working on AI systems that can rapidly produce clones or modified versions of trending games, release them quickly, and make money by "riding the wave". I think this is bad business strategy for mobile games and here's why.
AI Game Development
I built a tool and a workflow that turns a video of gameplay — 2D or 3D — into actual game code, using AI and a game engine. About 8 minutes of phone footage of Smash Fest became a working, playable Godot build in roughly one night: gameplay, levels and meta screens. Here is the pipeline, and which parts need an LLM and which parts must never be one.
Future of Game Dev
AI changes the picture when looking forward on game development. Unity is currently the king but it doesn't really fit an AI driven world without serious architecture changes. Godot and other engines are much better fit that future.
ARCHIVED · HEDONIA BLOG
Hedonia™ packs clinician-designed activities to relieve symptoms of depression and anxiety inside an entertaining game that keeps players coming back. The launch announcement for Mood Bloom.
