Regression Games raises $4.2M for AI gaming and esports
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Regression Games has raised $4.2 million to bring the power of AI to gaming and esports competitions.
That’s pretty good for a 25-year-old solo entrepreneur with a two-month-old company. But Aaron Vontell comes from a rare breed of technical experts in a fresh area of gaming.
The Philadelphia startup is the brainchild Vontell, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who helped create Battlecode, an AI gaming competition for students. Battlecode was a big inspiration for the new company.
Most AI gaming is geared toward non-player characters, or NPCs, who serve as the computer-controlled cannon fodder who are slaughtered by human players. But Regression Games will let human players create AI that plays the game.
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“I’ve always been passionate about AI and gaming and esports,” Vontell said in an interview with GamesBeat. “We’re creating a product and ecosystem where people can experiment, play and compete with artificial intelligence in games. And so exactly what that means is instead of using a controller or keyboard to game, players are is creating AI and writing code to actually control the characters. And the idea is to bring this really new, exciting technology to gaming and really make it accessible for people to really play around with and not only to compete but dive deeper into this exciting field of AI sports.”
Upon graduation, Vontell became a senior software engineer at
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