Next-Gen Gaming: AI Souls, Real-time Culture, Personalized Avatars

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Science, Innovation, Business, Entrepreneurship, Culture, Disruption, Software Eating The World, Technology

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🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Over 3,700 companies applied to a16z’s SPEEDRUN. In this episode, we meet the founders pushing the boundaries of what games can be. From the fusion of traditional gaming elements with modern tech-twists, a16z General Partner Andrew Chen and Partner Josh Lu discuss the challenges and wins of creating games that are not only fun but also integrate seamlessly into the digital age, from AI-twins to games that “move at the speed of culture”. Whether you’re a developer, an enthusiast, or just curious about the future of interactive entertainment, this episode provides a glimpse into how today's creators use creativity and technology to captivate.

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0:00.0	I love the games industry.
0:05.0	the games industry.
0:07.0	Speedrun is a love letter to the games industry.
0:10.0	Now that was Josh Lou,
0:12.0	partner on the A16s Week Games team at our Speed Run demo day.
0:16.0	The games industry is kind of a special beast.
0:19.0	Games at the end of the day are experiences that people enjoy, they evoke emotion, they make people feel something.
0:26.8	And so we wanted to build a program that basically embraced the founders who were really
0:30.5	really passionate about making games, as well as founders who were passionate about helping people make games and interactive experiences and so that's the genesis of speedrun.
0:39.0	In this episode you'll get to hear from Josh, but also a 16C general partner, Andrew Chen.
0:46.0	Over 3,700 companies applied.
0:48.3	We didn't know whether something like this could work.
0:50.7	We've just seen the quality of the teams and what everyone's working on just
0:54.2	skyrocket. No one had ever built an accelerator for the games industry before. We wanted to just
0:59.5	support those types of founders in a way that they never been supported before.
1:04.0	But in addition to hearing from the A16Z games team,
1:07.0	you'll also hear directly from some of the most interesting founders in the last
1:11.0	speedrun cohort.
1:13.0	So what did they build and what does that tell us about what lies ahead in gaming?
1:17.1	An industry that I should note that despite being continuously overlooked has often
1:21.2	speed run other industries in terms of innovation.
1:25.0	The ideas are just from every nook and cranny of the games industry.
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