Jalwa is a subset of computer science focused on using machine learning techniques to enhance gaming experiences. This includes creating intelligent NPCs, reducing development time with procedural generation, and providing valuable insights to improve gameplay, monetization, and quality assurance.

NPCs powered by AI can exhibit more human-like behaviors, increasing immersion and player engagement. AI-powered NPCs are also better at assessing their own strengths and weaknesses, making them more challenging to play against. The XCOM series of games, for example, uses AI to dynamically adjust enemies’ aggression and abilities to provide players with an engaging and challenging experience tailored to their skill level.

Using AI to Understand Player Moral Choices

Procedural generation and dynamic content creation are popular AI applications for gaming. These tools allow developers to create infinite game worlds and limitless content that make the gaming experience more diverse, unpredictable, and rewarding. They can also reduce development time by automating repetitive tasks and ensuring that content stays fresh over long game-play periods.

AI can also be used to analyze player feedback, competitor analysis, and other data sources to identify trends and optimize game monetization, gameplay mechanics, and challenges. For example, the game Eliza demonstrates how AI can be used to provide advice to patients with mental health problems by acting as a proxy for a virtual counselor. The game provides a series of visual programming puzzles presented as freelance jobs that let players work as an engineer for autonomous vehicles, manufacturing toys, surveying consumer tastes, or rigging elections to learn how different parts of machine learning and AI function.