Game Developers Are Becoming Directors, Not Coders
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Claims that AI lets studios cut a 2‑year/70‑person production into 2 weeks and 2 people, backed by concrete tooling: a custom live‑ops calendar, a backend that reskins events across titles, a tick‑orchestrator for branch builds, and agentic flows driven by Gemini 2.5 and a Slack bot that generates prototypes. Odd Latent ships four games in four months (Saw Tile, Tune Tiles, Alpha Pile, Defentries), pushes toward 1,000 prototypes a year, and shows new titles (Tile Wisp, Orbit Born) as evidence that developers become vision holders, not just coders.
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- 0:00Introduction
- 7:41Odd Latent's founding
- 11:51AI tools for game dev
- 16:51Developer roles in AI era
- 22:52Skills for 2030
- 28:21Vision and taste in dev
- 32:36AI adoption hurdles
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