Generic models choked on 1.2B tokens and bled cash. A custom gaming API cut latency and generated native dialogue to turn a profit.
A six-person startup launched a native AI survival game on Discord that unexpectedly grew to 20 million players and 3 million gameplay hours in just three months.
The game's core mechanic required fresh AI generation for every interaction, consuming 1.2 billion tokens in the first month and making the project...
“Every round there is so much of the story being generated, both on the voice side of it and the text side so there is no opportunity for caching to save on costs. It’s also the fact that the outcomes are so fresh that makes people keep coming back and playing. They don’t expect what’s going to happen.”
Multiplayer backend and development tools for social and web-based games.
Generative AI platform for interactive characters and real-time voice agents.
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