How AI and other technologies are accelerating game development | Interview with Steven Collins

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THE acceleration of technological change East obvious everywhere, And It is benefit Games In invisible manners. In 2016, King had only 2,000 levels For Candy Crush Saga.

As THE editor King turns 20, there are NOW 15,000 levels For Candy Crush Saga, which has help THE business generate $20 billion In income And five billion downloads has date. THE game had 238 million monthly active users In THE second quarter.

A of THE people responsible For manufacturing THE technology arrive has King East Steve Collins, Technical director has THE business. He has detained that role Since 2020, And he has more that 30 years of experience In entrepreneurship And direction In THE technology sector.

In her role at King, Collins leads THE Implementation of the King technology strategy And THE management of THE sharing technology team which East responsible For THE centralized some products, platforms And services that King has created has build And function It is live mobile Games.

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Before joining King, Collins was A partner has First line Companies, A European Capital risk Funds invest In technology start-ups, And Before has that was A founder And Technical director of Havok, Korea And Swerve. NOW he is very concentrate on Kings cloud And machine learning strategies. (This East THE sort of thing GOOD talk about has GamesBeat Following 2023 on October 23-24 In San Francis; here is A coded For 25% disabled: deangbn2325)

Here is A edited transcription of OUR interview.

Steve Colin East Technical director of King.

GamesBeat: How long to have You has been has King now?

Steve Collins: I joined just Before confinement, SO I begin In 2020. My First of all act as Technical director was has help We implement that transition. He was amazing has go through. A terrible time, obviously, but King was Already A pretty digital native organization. We adapted quickly has THE new path of it works.

In a few manners It is has been interesting has be part of that transition. King NOW East very a lot In THE hybrid fashion. We allow each of OUR teams has figure out how they to want has to show up, And It is has been incredibly successful For We as A organization.

GamesBeat: Do You remember how big King was SO? HAS he grown up significantly In THE speaker years?

Collins: He probably has grown up A certain Rising, but We always–my team East THE sharing technology organization, Or We invest strongly In A number of big initiatives, not THE less of which East AI. Were Also going through A very big cloud transformation. Were moving In THE cloud as A organization, something We were not TO DO Before I joined. We had migrated OUR data org has THE cloud, but were In THE process NOW of almost to end that, which East enough amazing. We have disappeared Since 100% of OUR Games In OUR data centers has 100% In THE cloud on A number of years. I am look Before has finishing that.

GamesBeat: Do You to have your own engine? East he A Unit shop?

Collins: All OUR live securities are powered by What We call THE Fiction technology. It is OUR own technology. In do, We...