Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A new approach for thinking about game development and my very best advice for how to make a successful indie game.
0:00 - Design Is a Search Algorithm
1:33 - PROBLEM 1: Speed vs. Accuracy Tradeoff
3:26 - PROBLEM 2: Local Minimum
5:24 - PROBLEM 3: Infinite Search Space
7:52 - PROBLEM 4: Wrong Reward Function
15:58 - PROBLEM 5: Noisy Measurements
16:31 - PROBLEM 6: Exploration Costs
20:19 - PROBLEM 7: Multiple Captains
23:00 - Red Flags to Look Out For
25:27 - 3 Main Takeaways
My game Thronefall:
➤ Play Thronefall on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2239150/Thronefall
➤ Join the Thronefall Discord: discord.gg/gVYctptyg8
My last game "Will You Snail":
➤ Play Will You Snail on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1115050/Will_You_Snail
➤ Join the Will You Snail Discord: discord.gg/G3mRDrK
For the game developers among you:
➤ Join our creative game dev community on Discord: discord.gg/Ye6zzfQ
Hope you enjoy. :)
#gamedev #indiedev
A new approach for thinking about game development and my very best advice for how to make a successful indie game.
0:00 - Design Is a Search Algorithm
1:33 - PROBLEM 1: Speed vs. Accuracy Tradeoff
3:26 - PROBLEM 2: Local Minimum
5:24 - PROBLEM 3: Infinite Search Space
7:52 - PROBLEM 4: Wrong Reward Function
15:58 - PROBLEM 5: Noisy Measurements
16:31 - PROBLEM 6: Exploration Costs
20:19 - PROBLEM 7: Multiple Captains
23:00 - Red Flags to Look Out For
25:27 - 3 Main Takeaways
My game Thronefall:
➤ Play Thronefall on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2239150/Thronefall
➤ Join the Thronefall Discord: discord.gg/gVYctptyg8
My last game "Will You Snail":
➤ Play Will You Snail on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1115050/Will_You_Snail
➤ Join the Will You Snail Discord: discord.gg/G3mRDrK
For the game developers among you:
➤ Join our creative game dev community on Discord: discord.gg/Ye6zzfQ
Hope you enjoy. :)
#gamedev #indiedev
![The Cr[AI]tive Revolution - The Future of Art (Full Documentary)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rFr6Ltlr7kI/mqdefault.jpg "The Cr[AI]tive Revolution - The Future of Art (Full Documentary)
AI is here. Artists, game developers, writers, voice actors, video creators... All creative industries are about to be rattled up like never before. What does this mean for creatives? How can you prepare? What does the future hold? In this full length (and ad-free) documentary I want to invite you to a deep dive into the topic of AI. I dont have all the answers, but we need to start having a nuanced discussion about this right now before its to late!
Collaborators:
- David Shapiro: https://www.youtube.com/@DavidShapiroAutomator
- Yän: https://www.youtube.com/@YaenGamedev
- Thomas Brush: https://www.youtube.com/@thomasbrush
- TheShelfman: https://www.youtube.com/@TheShelfman
Sources:
1) Sam Altman Interview by Greylock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHoWGNQRXb0
2) Life in Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8
3) The End of Art by Steven Zapata Art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjSxFAGP9Ss
4) A Message to Artists by ChrissaBug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx3ROK9nOYE
5) Robot Tax by David Shapiro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24srC931Yxo
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro
2:08 - CHAPTER 1: HOW IT WORKS
2:44 - How Image Generation Works
5:30 - How AI Works Using Math
10:09 - How Text Generation Works
13:58 - Can AI Be Creative?
16:13 - CHAPTER 2: THE PROTESTS
17:10 - Copyright Problems
21:27 - Overfitting
24:16 - Stealing Art Styles
26:13 - Replacing Artists
30:10 - A New Chapter Begins
35:39 - CHAPTER 3: THE TOOLS
35:57 - Image Generation
40:59 - Collaborating With Art AI
46:40 - Fine Tuning Custom Models
48:38 - Text Generation
51:37 - Collaborating With Text AI
54:32 - The AI Race (Google vs. Microsoft)
56:03 - Music Generation
57:50 - Collaborating With Music AI
58:52 - MusicLM Seems Insane
1:00:47 - Voice Generation
1:01:33 - Speech to Speech
1:02:50 - Text to Speech
1:03:51 - Audio Enhancement
1:04:37 - Everything Will Be Generated
1:06:38 - CHAPTER 4: THE FUTURE
1:08:35 - Human vs. Machine Comparison
1:11:42 - Speed of Development
1:14:53 - Predictions
1:19:16 - The Social Contract
1:20:59 - AI Agents Online
1:24:23 - More Risk Factors
1:25:56 - When Humans Become Useless & Mindset
1:27:26 - Forge Your Own Path
1:31:25 - What You Can Do (Lets Talk!)
Tools:
A) Midjourney: https://www.midjourney.com/home/
B) Dall-E 2: https://openai.com/dall-e-2/
C) Stable Diffusion on PlaygroundAI: https://playgroundai.com/
D) OpenAI Playground (Text Completion): https://platform.openai.com/playground
E) Chat GPT: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/
F) AI-Upscaling: https://imgupscaler.com/
G) Style Transfer: https://neuralstyle.art/
H) Artbreeder: https://www.artbreeder.com/
I) Stable Diffusion (One Click Install): https://github.com/cmdr2/stable-diffusion-ui
J) Astria (Training Custom Models): https://www.astria.ai/
K) Soundraw: https://soundraw.io/
L) Amper Music (They are only on Shutterstock now, eww!): https://www.shutterstock.com/discover/ampermusic
M) Aiva: https://www.aiva.ai/
N) MusicLM Previews: https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/
O) AlteredAI Speech to Speech: https://www.altered.ai/
P) Elevenlabs Text to Speech: https://beta.elevenlabs.io/
Q) Adobe Speech Enhancement: https://podcast.adobe.com/enhance
R) E-Mastered: https://emastered.com/
Check Out My Games:
➤ Wishlist our next game Thronefall on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2239150/Thronefall/
➤ Play my last game Will You Snail on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1115050/Will_You_Snail/
➤ Join the Will You Snail Discord: https://discord.gg/G3mRDrK
For the game developers among you:
➤ Join our creative game dev community on Discord: https://discord.gg/Ye6zzfQ
What do you think? Anything I missed or got wrong? Please let me know and keep the discussion in the comment section civilized. Thank you! :)
#ai #artificialintelligence")
