The Future of the Gaming Industry
Game development giant Electronic Arts (EA) aims to take your gaming experience to futuristic levels with the gaming utility software, Project Atlas. A cutting-edge development platform powered by AI and cloud computing, the Project Atlas will create a hyper-personalized, living and breathing world that constantly evolves. The app will take inputs from the players, the AI, and even the real world to apply constant changes to the games you play. With this, players will get to experience new things whenever they play video games.
The Power of Cloud-Native Games
Cloud is a term used to describe a global network service. In the context of games, the cloud is a technology used to store and manage data, as well as run the games and its related services. As you probably know, the cloud is not a physical construct but a connected and distributed system that delivers the games services to the gaming population worldwide. With EA, cloud gaming is a game that is on an EA-made server rather than on a PC or mobile device. For gamers to enter the cloud-native games, they will need to install a thin client, which can then give them access.
Project Atlas was created in the hopes of utilizing the cloud to remotely process and stream popular multiplayer HD games with as low latency as possible. The app also aims to unlock dynamic social and cross-platform plays. Beyond that, this cloud gaming software seeks to enable deeper personalization and eventually create a gaming world with user-generated content. In a nutshell, the Project Atlas is a tool that will blur the lines between the discrete domains of game engines and game services.
Unlocking Creativity with AI
Artificial intelligence or AI is still a new technology that the gaming industry is harnessing. Using it, developers can optimize almost any element of the game, from the distribution of the resources in an online shooter to unlocking the deep personalization of in-game agents. Utilizing AI also gives the game makers the ability to craft in-game interactions with non-playable characters. Simply put, AI pushes the game into an even greater level of experiential and contextual realism.
EA integrates AI into the Project Atlas to create something transparent and seamless for the player. But worry not, as this will never be intrusive and will never imbalance the players’ experience. Instead, it will serve as a tool for developers to enable AI in the right way. With this, the fun will always be in the center while also keeping the gameplay fair.
What to Expect with Project Atlas
Combining the power of AI and the cloud, Project Atlas gives rise to a new game development platform capable of building a social, scalable, and large-scale experience. With the app, game developers will be able to generate not just a single mountain, but a series of them with all the surrounding environment and a realistic look. More so, the web app can process the rendering, physics, and simulation of a game, instead of constraining them entirely to the specs of a single client-side computing device. And since Project Atlas is completely cloud-native, game makers can break free from the limitations of individual systems. By integrating distributed networks at the rendering, the app can give you infinite scalability from the cloud.
But perhaps what developers and even gamers would be excited about the app is that it gives you more creative control. Project Atlas opens a powerful avenue for players to create within games and services. With this, your visions can turn into reality which, in turn, you can market to your friends and the community.
Empowering Game Makers
If you are a game developer, you would know that some of these capabilities are already in existence. However, they are hard to use and you must be manually connected and configured as each capability emerges. This creates a huge opportunity cost, which most small and indie game developers cannot afford. Project Atlas intends to solve these manually-intensive demands by bringing together the AI capabilities in an engine and the cloud-enabled services. With this, game makers will have more free time, brain space, and energy to discover the next great thing in games.
