Topic: development timelines
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Rethinking the AI Bubble: A Smarter Perspective
An AI bubble is not necessarily a catastrophic failure but a nuanced economic situation where investments may outpace actual demand, with outcomes depending on execution and timing. The AI sector faces a mismatch between rapid software evolution and slow infrastructure development, with supply ch...
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Ex-Assassin's Creed Director: Big-Budget Games Are Unsustainable
The traditional AAA video game development model is criticized as unsustainable due to bloated teams and budgets, leading to inefficiency, project cancellations, and layoffs. A proposed solution is to adopt smaller, agile teams and a Hollywood-style project-based model, assembling specialized cre...
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Level-5 Boss: GenAI Is a Tool, Like a Knife in Game Dev
Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino views generative AI as a tool to accelerate game development, not replace human creativity, potentially shortening AAA production cycles from a decade to a few years. Hino clarified that reports of AI writing 80% of a game's code were inaccurate, noting such a feat is not...
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