Game Developers

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Player retention in scaled video games heavily depends on automated bot quality
“So if you're a game developer, how well you're actually retaining players, it's like if you have a game that's already at scale, it's like decently dependent on how good your bots are.”
Pim de Witte Dec 6, 2025 ▶ 53:00 World Models & General Intuition: Khosla's largest bet since LLMs & OpenAI
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AI allows developers to create high-quality games at a fraction of cost
“Now the suggestion isn't that you can just use AI tools to create Fortnite, but it is to suggest that great game developers leveraging AI will likely be able to create high quality games at a fraction of the cost because AI tools will offer junior employee cal…”
Alex Lieberman Mar 10, 2025 ▶ 7:22 How Pieter Levels Hit $67k MRR in 3 Weeks
Brian Singerman says esports business models only work for game publishers
“And that's why a lot of these esports things are pretty challenging other than for the game developers themselves, because they can sell a lot of copies of their games because parents buy kids games, right? But any other model in terms of the esports portion o…”
Brian Singerman Feb 9, 2024 ▶ 46:53 #33: Yes/No, Vision Pro? w/Special Guest Brian Singerman, Founders Fund · More or Less Podcast
20VC Insight
Devin Finzer: Incumbent game developers lack economic incentives to enable NFT interoperability
“The game developers are rightly skeptical of this. I think existing games don't necessarily have a incentive to, like, open up their economies and allow this sort of interoperability, and you kind of have to think about what are the reasons that a game develop…”
Devin Finzer Jan 14, 2022 ▶ 9:36 20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!
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Devin Finzer: Experimental developers will crack the business model for open worlds
“But I think new games and new developers who are more experimental and kind of want to figure out what's the business model incentive structure that works, they will eventually crack this and eventually build Sort of these open worlds that I think could be rea…”
Devin Finzer Jan 14, 2022 ▶ 9:51 20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!
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Chou: In-game blockchain smart contracts let developers monetize secondary markets
“But blockchain technology, if it was applied inside of a game, Would unlock, would solve all of these problems. Players would get a safe way to transact and buy and sell the things that they want. Service providers would have a built-in customer base, and then…”
Kevin Chou Mar 9, 2020 ▶ 13:30 Gamers are Entering a New Era of Monetization
Game developers are best suited to build cryptocurrency virtual economies
“In my world gaming gaming definitely pushes those types of technologies forward, or at least test those boundaries of like, how far can it go? And I, I'm always encouraging, I think in the blockchain world and with crypto, like what better people to really exp…”
Holly Liu Apr 27, 2018 ▶ 41:23 Gaming Studio Founders - Patrick Moberg and Holly Liu · Y Combinator

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