Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
We continue our Player Choice season in which the audience votes for their favourite AI in a first-person shooter.
[00:00] Intro
[02:30] Stream Start
[18:36] F.E.A.R.
[01:20:55] Discussion
[01:30:11] BioShock
[02:29:50] Wrapping Up
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What's the best AI in an FPS? You cast the deciding vote in our Player Choice series.
Voting is now live for the second round of eliminations:
https://forms.gle/5cCeLYFo7qoEPGCa7
Plus join our Player Choice committee as part of the AI and Games Patreon!
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Player Choice is brought to you with support from @modl_ai81
Modl.ai empowers game developers and publishers with extraordinary AI technology that helps unlock the potential of their games. Find out more at: modl.ai
Music in this video is by @teknoaxe
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We continue our Player Choice season in which the audience votes for their favourite AI in a first-person shooter.
[00:00] Intro
[02:30] Stream Start
[18:36] F.E.A.R.
[01:20:55] Discussion
[01:30:11] BioShock
[02:29:50] Wrapping Up
--
What's the best AI in an FPS? You cast the deciding vote in our Player Choice series.
Voting is now live for the second round of eliminations:
https://forms.gle/5cCeLYFo7qoEPGCa7
Plus join our Player Choice committee as part of the AI and Games Patreon!
patreon.com/aiandgames
Player Choice is brought to you with support from @modl_ai81
Modl.ai empowers game developers and publishers with extraordinary AI technology that helps unlock the potential of their games. Find out more at: modl.ai
Music in this video is by @teknoaxe
teknoaxe.com
--
AI and Games Plus is the second channel for AI and Games: a series on research and applications of Artificial Intelligence in video games.
Follow 'AI and Games' for educational videos and essays:
youtube.com/@AIandGames
Follow 'AI and Games Plus' is dedicated to bonus content, deep-dive analysis, revisiting old topics and more:
youtube.com/@AIandGamesPlus
Listen to my podcast 'Branching Factor', as I discuss game development and research with my co-hosts and guests:
shows.acast.com/branchingfactor
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Watch Livestreams: twitch.tv/aiandgames
Join our Community: discord.aiandgames.com
Buy our Merch: store.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?
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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/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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