https://mattdown.ai/tags/game-design/Recent content in Game Design on Matt DownHugoen-usMatt DownMon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mattdown.ai/posts/tenten/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mattdown.ai/posts/tenten/<h2 id="intro">Intro</h2> <p>For a while now I&rsquo;ve been interested in <strong>AI accelerated design space exploration</strong>. It&rsquo;s a compelling approach that allows the rapid iteration of game rules and balance. As someone who&rsquo;s spent a lot of their career working on early stage prototypes, I&rsquo;ve seen firsthand how important it is to nail the core mechanics of a game.</p> <p>So how does that work? You first need to train an agent that is capable of playing the game in a way that it can react to balance changes and even rule changes. Then you define some metrics based on game dynamics that I&rsquo;ll cover in the next section, before changing the game balance and rules to hit those metrics.</p>