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Smoke and Mirrors returns for 2019 as I revisit I game I played back in early-access: the Mega Man roguelike platformer 20XX.
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Smoke and Mirrors returns for 2019 as I revisit I game I played back in early-access: the Mega Man roguelike platformer 20XX.
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Smoke and Mirrors is the game review series as part of YouTube channel 'AI and Games': a series on research and applications of Artificial Intelligence in video games. AI and Games is funded thanks to our supporters on Patreon, plus YouTube members and Paypal donations. You can watch episodes of Smoke and Mirrors *early* by joining the Patreon or YouTube memberships.
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![DLSS 3: Cyberpunk 2077 - Graphics Settings & Gameplay
This video is a brief demo of one of the opening missions of Cyberpunk 2077, running in 4K on an RTX-4090 with DLSS3 enabled.
This demo is provided by the team at NVIDIA who gave access to the pre-release demos alongside the GPU for review. DLSS 3 will be available for all users at a later date.
If you want to learn more about how it works, be sure to check out the video on the main channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Lf0XpgWSc
Chapters
[00:00] Intro
[00:46] Graphics Settings
[02:03] Full Gameplay
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![The Legendary @VikingBlonde on Indies, GDC, Generative AI, Crypto and More | Branching Factor #016
Will Overgard, aka the Viking Blonde joins Tommy for a chat about his career as a Twitch streamer supporting game developers, and the current state of the industry going into GDC 2024. The conversation covers everything from good indie games to monetisation models, surviving as a game developer, being a content creator, generative AI, crypto and Web3, EA project 10 dollar, good dogs, British civility and much more besides!
Catch up with what Wills up to over at: https://www.twitch.tv/viking_blonde
PLUS!
Right after this episode of Branching Factor was recorded, I jumped over to Wills Twitch channel to play Sea of Thieves and answer questions from his community.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYz4BjF4Z6o&ab_channel=VikingBlonde
The Branching Factor podcast is sponsored by modl.ai (@modl_AI): unleash an army of AI and ML bots that play, grow, and learn― all inside your game. With millions of players’ to your aid, game testing will never be the same again.
Chapters
[00:00] Welcome!
[03:47] Our Hilarious GDC23 Interaction
[13:15] Introducing the Viking Blonde
[15:40] The ex-industry Twitch streamer
[32:07] Unpacking AIs Image Problem
[01:01:42] GDC 2024 / Industry Layoffs / Sustainable Indies
[01:26:22] Closing
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![Sunset Crack Squad | Branching Factor Podcast #014
Tommys riding solo in this episode, and so he decided to focus on games hes playing, projects hes involved in and the big stories in the news that are going down.
As mentioned, I am involved in the AI and Games Summer School for this year. I will be doing a bunch of stuff (to be confirmed) but probably a talk and maybe hosting another panel.
Its running from June 17th-21st in Valletta in Malta.
The early bird registration closes on March 1st.
http://school.gameaibook.org/
The first volume of Game AI Uncovered, a new textbook series from games industry professionals on AI in commercial titles is coming out on February 23rd. I was invited to write the opening chapter of the book, and very excited to not only have my own copy which arrived last week.
It will be available on Amazon and all major book stores.
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Game-AI-Uncovered-Volume-One-by-Paul-Roberts-editor/9781032343235
Chapters
[00:00] Intro
[01:45] The AI and Games Summer School
[06:00] Game AI Uncovered
[09:08] Evil Within, Tekken and Dead by Daylight
[18:00] Suicide Squad
[30:00] Helldivers II
[38:35] Spec Ops De Listed
[44:02] More Layoffs
[45:44] Microsoft Game Pass?
[59:35] Capcom Remakes
[01:03:11] SAG-AFTRA & Indie Games
[01:06:15] Disney/Epic Games
[01:11:29] Closing
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