Video games are a bigger industry than movies, sports, music, and several other entertainment forms COMBINED. It's also much riskier to build and sell good games.

Today, we discuss how AI shows a path for the future of this business. As competition heats up, game development will benefit from machine learning.

I interviewed Christoffer Holmgård, CEO and Founder of Modl AI, a software company that builds cutting-edge ML tools for game developers so they can be more profitable and scalable!

See the full episode here: https://sanpram.com/2021/11/20/ai-game-development/

We discuss:

• 01:36 — How the games industry is structured (studio sizes, types of games, etc)
• 07:09 — The varying economics of game dev for different game types
• 11:05 — How game dev can be more profitable and less risky!
• 14:50 — Why video game prices are trending towards zero
• 18:00 — How machine learning is revolutionizing the games industry
• 25:55 — Types of ML models used by Modl AI
• 29:43 — Evolution of Modl AI's team and product
• 32:00 — Lessons from building a reinforcement learning product: don't go too hardcore