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With Gamescom (Dev) now in the rear-view mirror, we have Tommy, Shraddha Gupta (AI and Games bizdev manager), Andrew Roper (Goal State programmer), and Duygu Cakmak (co-founder AI and Games Conference) sit down to talk about their week in Cologne. We talk about the mood and sentiment around AI at the Gamescom Dev developer conference, how Tommy and Duygu’s talks went at the event, the rising interest in code generation and agentic frameworks, trying to find time to play games at the trade show, and the all important industry gossip!
All that and we answer listener questions too!
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With Gamescom (Dev) now in the rear-view mirror, we have Tommy, Shraddha Gupta (AI and Games bizdev manager), Andrew Roper (Goal State programmer), and Duygu Cakmak (co-founder AI and Games Conference) sit down to talk about their week in Cologne. We talk about the mood and sentiment around AI at the Gamescom Dev developer conference, how Tommy and Duygu’s talks went at the event, the rising interest in code generation and agentic frameworks, trying to find time to play games at the trade show, and the all important industry gossip!
All that and we answer listener questions too!
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The AI and Games Podcast is presented by AWS for Games.
aws.com
All of our work including the AI and Games YouTube series, newsletter, and this here podcast is fan-funded by our community. You can support our work and get access to bonus content by visiting http://www.aIandgames.com.
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![The Future of AI for Games [ a 2023 @GameAISchool Panel ] | Branching Factor Podcast #009](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jo89CXY0poE/mqdefault.jpg "The Future of AI for Games [ a 2023 @GameAISchool Panel ] | Branching Factor Podcast #009
A recording from Tommys visit to the AI and Games Summer School (@GameAISchool), which ran in June 2023 at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. Our panel, explores aspects of AI for games and what the future of it might look like. With Tommy as moderator, this panel ran on day 3 of the event with the following panellists:
- Katja Hofmann (Microsoft Research)
- Duygu Cakmak (Creative Assembly)
- Oskar Stalberg (independent developer, creator of Townscaper)
- Wesley Kerr (Riot Games)
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