In 2019, I gave a talk at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki and was surprised to see that they had reserved a complete track for blockchain games. It puzzled me that game developers were using a complicated decentralised storage solution to give the players an illusion of uniqueness and ownership. After…

The usage of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to shape the experience of a player or a group of players is now integrating well in modern games. An example is the usage of Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment used by Left 4 Dead which as the name suggests, alters the…

I created a web-server using Golang that ran machine learning algorithms for a video game. I was aware that the algorithms will take a large number of resources as the player data increases but I saw very large and inconsistent memory spikes that could use up to 4 to…