welcome
CityNews

CityNews

Entertainment

Entertainment

How AI helps push Candy Crush players through its most difficult puzzles

CityNews
Summary
Nutrition label

79% Informative

The app that helped make gamers out of anyone with a smartphone uses AI to help developers create levels to serve a captive audience.

Some game makers see AI as a tool that can assist with menial tasks, allowing designers and artists to focus on bigger projects.

There are also those who strongly oppose the use of AI , or who see the tech as a threat to their livelihoods.

For most players, the fun in solving the puzzles lies in the “up and down” Levels aren’t designed in order of difficulty.

An easy level can follow a few difficult levels to give the game a sense of variety.

Instead of the team working on several hundred levels each week , they could potentially improve thousands of levels per week.