3 disruptive trends in game development in 2023
Presented by Beamable
“Shots on goal” is my main advice to game developers: it’s a hard-won lesson I’ve learned from shipping my own games to millions of players. The more creative iterations you give yourself on a game project, the better your chance to earn an enduring audience.
Since I shipped the Beamable Live Ops platform, it’s given me the opportunity to connect with thousands of other game developers. The patterns I’ve seen reinforce that time invested towards creativity and experimentation is critical. At the start of 2023, these conversations tend to involve these three trends:
In this article, I’ll review some of what I’ve observed and share my perspective on meeting the challenges of 2023.
Recent months have seen an astonishing flurry of generative artificial intelligence breakthroughs. The buzz is warranted because AI will speed important aspects of game development, while introducing novel forms of player interaction. All of this is transpiring against a broader trend of acceleration across most disciplines within game development. By focusing on creative output — without getting bogged down on undifferentiated technologies and implementation details — smaller teams can build games faster and dream bigger.
Technologies are improving up-and-down the technology stack, from the 3D engine down to the cloud-based infrastructure used to deliver live games.
On the 3D graphics front, there have been amazing leaps forward with real-time ray tracing. NVIDIA’s latest ray tracing demos present a view into what future games will look like as hardware-based ray tracing reaches the consumer. Unreal 5 features Nanite and Lumen, which enable complicated geometry and lighting on already-available consumer devices. The
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