Living Game Worlds Powered by AI
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…