Supercell knowledge scientist Markus Ojala mentioned utilizing bots to check video games earlier than launch.
He spoke at PGC Helsinki 2025.
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Balancing participant expertise earlier than a sport launches could be accomplished with AI bots, educated to check a title and its content material, options, and kit.
Via “reinforcement studying”, hundreds of bots can take a look at a sport on a big scale, encountering exploits or unintended methods alongside the best way, even when “imitation studying” from precise gamers isn’t but doable.
“The fantastic thing about reinforcement studying is you don’t want any guidelines for the gamers,” stated Supercell knowledge scientist Markus Ojala, presenting learnings from Mo.co at PGC Helsinki 2025.
“Bots are mainly randomly doing one thing, and in the event that they do the precise factor, for instance killing a boss, they are often refined to say ‘do extra of this’.”
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Supercell’s portal-hopping dungeon explorer Mo.co went international this summer season after a interval of semi-global availability. Beginning in March, the sport was playable in every single place however on an invite-only foundation, requiring an present consumer to grant entry to somebody new. This gave Supercell additional alternative to check it in gamers’ palms earlier than the complete international launch.
Ojala shared that previous to this, when bots have been testing the sport, they may have gravitated in direction of explicit gadgets – signalling to builders that these wanted recalibrating as a result of they have been overpowered.
“We don’t use the bots in Mo.co for precise opponents. We use them simply after we are growing the sport and introducing new gadgets,” he clarified.
“In the course of the Mo.co growth cycle, builders have been introducing new concepts possibly each one or two weeks after which our bot builders mainly educated a brand new mannequin after which noticed how the bots began utilising all of them.”
Ojala proceeded to clarify Mo.co’s AI simulator and coaching framework used to check the participant expertise earlier than launch.
Pocket Gamer Connects London 2026 is happening on January nineteenth and twentieth with its AI Advances observe highlighting the tech’s newest inventive potential.
