Living Game Worlds Powered by AI
admin The first time I truly felt a game world was alive happened in Red Dead Redemption 2. I was tracking a deer through the forest when I noticed something strange…
AI Generated In Game Events
There’s this moment in RimWorld I’ll never forget. My colony was thriving decent food supplies, solid defenses, happy colonists. Then the game decided things were too comfortable. A solar flare…
AI Controlled Weather and Time Systems
I was maybe thirty hours into Breath of the Wild when the storm rolled in. Not a scripted story moment just weather happening. Lightning crackled across the sky, and suddenly…
Smart Environment Reactions Using AI
I remember walking into a client’s office building in Singapore last year and feeling like I’d stepped into the future. The lights adjusted as I moved through the corridor, the…
AI Driven World Evolution
Five years ago, I sat in a conference room in San Francisco listening to a venture capitalist make a bold prediction. He said that within a decade, every industry on…
Emotion Simulation in Game Characters
The moment that changed everything for me happened during my second playthrough of The Last of Us. Ellie cracked a joke something dumb about a pun she’d read and Joel’s…
Player Modeling Using AI in Modern Games
I still remember the first time I realized a game was genuinely adapting to my playstyle. It was 2019, and I was playing through a horror title that seemed to…
Autonomous AI Agents in Games Thinking NPCs
There’s a moment I remember vividly from 2016. I was watching a playtest of a survival game our studio had been developing for two years. A pack of wolves our…
Intelligent Game Systems Using AI in Video Games
I’ve spent the better part of fifteen years watching video games evolve from predictable enemy patterns to genuinely surprising, adaptive experiences. When I first started covering game development back in…
AI Driven NPC Interactions in Video Games
I spent thirty minutes last month talking to a blacksmith in a modded version of Skyrim. Not clicking through dialogue options actually conversing. I asked about his family, his thoughts…