The cutting-edge game development tools and the recently released game AI engine GiiNEX will bring changes to the game industry.

Tencent Games, the world's leading game development, distribution and operation platform, has brought the latest technologies, services and solutions in different aspects of game development and operation two thousand and twenty-four Game Developers Conference（ GDC ）。

GDC2024 EXPO Tencent game booth.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning become GDC Focus of discussion

For game developers and creators, it is crucial to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to create immersive surreal game experiences. Liao Shiyang, the head of AI team from the Technical Center of Rubik's Cube Studio, shared that he used large-scale reinforcement learning optimization technology in fighting games. Naruto Mobile is the first combat game that uses reinforcement learning methods to train, saving up to 90% of the time and resources in the training process. Liao Shiyang also attended the Machine Learning Summit with other famous experts in the industry and answered questions about the future application of machine learning in the game industry.

Liao Shiyang, head of AI team of Rubik's Cube Studio Technology Center.

The team of Tianmei Studio Group also shared its self-developed character animation system MotorNerve , and how the system can be integrated Motion Matching and Learned Motion Matching And take advantage of Motion In Betweening Technology to achieve high quality, low consumption displacement action control and transition animation generation.

To provide developers with the latest games AI Tools, Tencent AI Lab stay GDC During the conference, the independently developed GiiNEX game AI Engine. The game AI The engine adopts the generative mode AI Technology can help professional developers create realistic and diverse 3D City scene. In addition, it also provides players with enhancements such as designing new levels UGC The opportunity to create. GiiNEX Support includes 2D Image, animation 3D In addition to the generation of scenarios and scenarios, decision-making AI is also used to develop and test games, simulate games and scenarios, so as to speed up game innovation.

Advanced solutions help game development

The development team of Delta Action shared their cross platform development solutions, including creating cross platform development art pipelines and tools to ensure the performance of mobile phones while providing high-precision end game images. They also implemented integrated production pipelines and technical support with high quality at both ends, so as to achieve high scalability of effects and performance and improve overall production efficiency.

Ray tracing technology PC And host 3A It has been widely used in games, but it has not been widely used on mobile platforms due to performance and algorithm limitations. However, experts from Rubik's Cube Studio disclosed the technical details of its annual masterpiece, Breakthrough in the Dark Zone. Ray tracing technology has been successfully applied to mobile devices, providing players with high-quality, surreal gaming experience. In addition, in order to solve the conflict between the graphics quality and the frame rate, the team developed a frame prediction technology, which improved the frame rate and reduced the battery power consumption without reducing the graphics quality.

The engine team of the R&D Efficiency Department shared how to make the mobile terminal high-performance global lighting scheme “SmartGI” Seamless with adaptation LOD technology “NanoMesh” Integrate into a new real-time rendering pipeline. This integration aims to One stop development process, pixel level geometry rendering and full real-time cross platform customized game engine for near zero asset pre-processing 。 The game user experience research team shared "A-G-E" Model and its improvement F2P Insights on the player's entry process.

Tencent Games GDC2024 Speaker.

stay GDC On the booth, Tencent Games also brought its cutting-edge internal products, demonstrating its investment in game safety, quality assurance and studio efficiency. Anti cheating expert（ ACE ）Provide a complete set of game security solutions for mobile games and end games, such as reinforcement scheme, anti plug-in, in game economic security and content security management, and digital rights management, to help game developers cope with various security challenges and provide a fair competitive game environment for players. digitization QA platform WeTest Global Through a series of quality assurance solutions (including compatibility test, function test, automation test, remote device access and performance test for mobile games, end games and host games), ensure that the game and application development reach the highest quality standards. In addition, CES The solution enables studios to overcome geographical and physical constraints and work together globally, thereby improving R&D efficiency, improving art production collaboration and ensuring asset security.

Connect communities and talents

And GDC At the same time PocketGamer Connects San Francisco Activities, Level Infinite Vice President and Head of Business Operations and Strategy Yong-yi Zhu Attended the event. He participated in Supernova Games CEO and Founder Qi Lu and Curve Games chairman Stuart Dinsey The three exchanged views on the role of global issuers in communicating with Asian and Western markets.

Level Infinite Vice President and Head of Business Operations and Strategy Yong yi Zhu (middle).

Yong-yi Said that Tencent Games has always focused on listening to and testing the content of the global local game community, and then feedback the needs of players to the studio. He said: " Tencent has the advantage of cooperating with mobile developers and making decisions based on data. Find out what can really resonate with players in the local community and make it customized. "

On this year's GDC During this period, Tencent Games set up talent recruitment booths to promote communication and interaction with potential job seekers in various fields. The booth shows various career opportunities in the field of game development technology from internships to senior positions, and enables the audience to further understand Tencent's various studio teams and their latest projects. In addition, it was officially announced on the scene two thousand and twenty-four Tencent Game Creation Competition. The competition sets gold, silver and bronze prizes for the best game, and eight Unique category awards, with a total prize of up to five point six Ten thousand dollars. Contestants can visit seven month fifteen Day before last Official website Submit entries.

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