Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In 2020 the AI and Games channel passed 100K subscribers. YouTube then sent over a Silver Creator Award, so let's crack it open and answer some questions too! Thank you to everybody who sent in questions via YouTube and Discord. Sorry I didn't answer them all. I'll just need an excuse to do this again some time.

Chapters
[00:00] Introduction
[00:55] What's a Creator Award?
[03:02] How did AI and Games start?
[06:00] Production times?
[09:10] Games I'd like to cover?
[12:33] Hardest part of my work?
[17:49] My logo?
[19:33] AI for multiplayer?
[20:13] Innovative AI?
[21:24] Genre for AI?
[22:02] Low-hanging fruit for AI?
[22:46] My career path?
[25:04] How has my career changed?
[28:11] Pressure to publish content?
[31:02] What else would I do in life?
[32:21] Does my research pay off with views?
[33:38] Do friends/family watch my channel?
[35:08] How has COVID impacted my work?
[36:04] Unboxing
[40:41] Closing

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