Piero Molino

When I started this company, I brought together people from both the AI industry and the gaming industry, exactly because those two spaces don’t interact a lot.

It seems like AI is basically a mechanism for cheapening the development cost and cheapening their experience. I’m sympathetic to that kind of argument because games are an incredible combination of tech and art. If you make it so the art is not as good as it used to be, but it’s cheaper, then it feels like the worst version.

In our experience, the prototypes that were more in between these two extremes were the most fun. You have some aspects of the game where AI is fundamental and the game would not have been possible before, but some other aspects where classical game mechanics and game design become the predominant part.

I think you shouldn’t be thinking about which model you’re using, how many tokens per second, how many tokens you’re consuming, and all of these implementation details. They get you away from the game you’re playing or the task you’re performing as a knowledge worker.

The vast majority of the value was coming from the data for the task. The base model was more or less an independent variable. The actual effect was coming from the fine-tuning and the increased performance that you get after post-training.

We don’t know exactly how valuable one more creature in Bobium Brawlers will be, because people aren’t paying for the creatures. But we will know how valuable the whole game is because we will know the revenue for the game.