Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Okay that school was creepy. Now I gotta get through three doors and kind of upset my friends?
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Okay that school was creepy. Now I gotta get through three doors and kind of upset my friends?
--
'AI and Games Plus' is our second channel dedicated to Artificial Intelligence in video games.
Check out all of our content:
AI and Games: youtube.com/@AIandGames
AI and Games Plus: youtube.com/@AIandGamesPlus
Livestreams on Twitch: twitch.tv/aiandgames
Website with Weekly Newsletter: aiandgames.com
Join our Discord Community: discord.aiandgames.com
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You can support 'AI and Games' via Patreon, YouTube memberships, and on our website. In return, you get bonus rewards!
patreon.com/aiandgames
aiandgames.com
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![‘Meet Your Maker’ is Great Fun, but Will Its Community Survive? [Review] | Smoke & Mirrors
Behaviour Interactives #MeetYourMaker is an interesting concept: part first-person combat, part devious puzzle game. The core of the game is fun, intriguing and interesting to play. But is it going to survive in a sea of other online games when it relies so heavily on user-generated content?
AI and Games Plus is the second channel for AI and Games: a series on research and applications of Artificial Intelligence in video games.
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![Measuring Games by their Awesome Per Second with Quang | The Branching Factor Podcast #02
Tommy and Quang sit down to discuss the challenges of crowdfunding your own Game Boy games at a time when the perceived value of games continues to change.
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Over our first four episodes, we sit down with each of the four co-hosts of Branching Factor. For this episode, its Quang Nguyen: the owner of micro game studio AsobiTech.
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https://twitter.com/QuangDX
https://twitter.com/asobitech
Chapters
[00:00] Welcome to Branching Factor
[02:55] Catching Up with Quang
[08:31] 65 Games Events in 6 Years
[15:08] The Size of Games
[18:00] The Realities of Shipping Game Boy Games
[33:05] Awesome Per Second
[43:26] The Value of Games (Then and Now)
[52:47] The Modern Game Boy Market
[57:43] The Way Forward?
[01:09:57] Takeaways
[01:13:00] Whats Coming in 2023
[01:22:57] Credits
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![We Need Better Safety Measures for AI in the Video Games Industry
With the AI Safety Summit recently occurring here in the UK, Im putting the call out to the games industry that we need to do a better job of protecting our developers and players from the risks of future AI developments.
Read this episode over on the AI and Games Substack:
https://www.aiandgames.com/p/ai-safety-games-industry
Read my interview on the Video Games Industry Memo
https://videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com/p/ai-and-games-expert-calls-for-industry
[00:00] Intro
[00:55] AI Safety
[06:41] Safety for Games
[10:40] Closing Comments
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![Which First-Person Shooter has the Best AI? | Player Choice S1E1
32 games, only 1 victor: Player Choice starts now!
Whats the best AI in an FPS? Its time to make your voice heard. Lets go!
Vote now for the first round of eliminations in both the UAC and UNSC conferences:
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Player Choice is brought to you with support from @modl_AI.
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[00:00] Player Choice Begins!
[00:34] Season Announcement
[01:21] The Player Choice Committee
[01:44] The UAC Conference
[02:21] The UNSC Conference
[03:03] Voting and Comment
[03:30] Watch Live on Twitch
[04:07] Closing
If you really like the round 1 graphic with all the games in it, you can download a copy at:
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Music in this episode is by TeknoAxe:
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![Chivalry II is Best Played with Bots Enabled | [REVIEW] Smoke & Mirrors
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[00:00] Peasant is Mightier Than the Sword
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[00:53] Review
[08:12] Thanks to NordVPN
[09:20] Closing
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AI and Games Plus is the second channel for AI and Games: a series on research and applications of Artificial Intelligence in video games.
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