from Hacker News

Making Retail Mage: A New Approach to AI in Games

by jaaron on 3/14/25, 8:17 PM with 1 comments

• by jaaron on 3/14/25, 8:17 PM

  Last year, my startup launched Retail Mage as our first answer to the question of if there was any point in introducing ML/GenAI into the real-time gameplay loop. I hope this to be the first of a series of articles on what we learned.

  Some other highlights, specific to the Hacker News folks:

  - We have our own AI backend, running in AWS. - Costs were a major issue and we did a lot to lower it - We use a hybrid approach of mixing traditional game AI with machine learning - We have not just AI NPCs, but an AI world interaction model

  Anyway, happy to answer questions!