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Episode 2: Who writes the code now? Chris Wood on AI in game development
The podcast behind Contact: Wait Out, an ops room command game.
Our first guest episode. Chris Wood spent sixteen years as a programmer before founding Tanglewood Games, which has grown from one person at a desk to around 60 staff fixing the hard engineering problems inside Unreal Engine for other studios, on games including Hogwarts Legacy. We ask him the question every studio now faces: how far to lean into AI.
Ryan starts with what Epic has announced for Unreal Engine 6. Chris explains why he sees AI as an unprecedented tool rather than another industrial revolution, why his studio cannot…
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