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## What Gamers Want -- <div class="grid-container"> <div class="grid-item">Good games</div> <div class="grid-item fragment">Gamers to be treated well</div> <div class="grid-item fragment">Devs to be treated well</div> <div class="grid-item fragment">Earth to be treated well (mostly)</div> </div> --- ## Studio Atelico -- <p >We make AI-driven <i>blue ocean</i> games</p> <p style="text-align: center;">running on <i>your own device.</i></p> <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> -- ## You may be thinking Game company or tech company? <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> Yes! <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> Don't gamers hate AI? <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> Yes? <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> --- ## Our Thesis -- **Gamers and game devs** don’t like AI because it’s: Sloppy <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> Slow <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> Expensive <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> Disrespectful <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> -- **In our humble opinion, they’re right!** <p>But the rotten core is driven by <i>Cloud AI</i>.</p> <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> -- ### Cloud AI is dead on arrival for games. -- <div class="grid-container"> <div class="grid-item">❌ Good games</div> <div class="grid-item">❌ Gamers to be treated well</div> <div class="grid-item">❌ Devs to be treated well</div> <div class="grid-item">❌ Earth to be treated well</div> </div> -- <div><div>It scales cost with gameplay... </div><div> Talk a lot to an NPC? They're going to bill you! <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> </div></div> Within 5 years, the noise will settle, and game AI will be on-device, despite multiple expected AAA cloud gimmicks. <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> --- ## About us -- Not our first rodeo Super strong technical foundation, proven impact record <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> Looking for key creatives to complement the team <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> -- ## Piero Molino (CEO) - AI infra and finetuning expert - Creator of Ludwig (Open Source ML, 8k GitHub Stars) - 2x founder, 1 acquisition -- ## Chris Olson (CPO) - 20+ years experience developing and delivering games - ex-COO SEGA Networks (Mobile Gaming Division) -- ## Paul Szerlip (CTO) - Specialized in research to production pipelines ($100m+ impact to Uber ARR) - ex-Uber AI labs, Geometric Intelligence acquisition -- ## JP Chen (CSO) - On-device GenAI models - Instagram On-Device AI Team, ex-Meta, ex-Uber AI, Stanford - Creator of Pyro PPL (Probabilistic Programming Language, 5k GitHub stars) -- ## Ennio De Nucci - ex-Creative Assembly Lead Game Designer (Total War) - Formerly Age of Games, Supermassive Games, Another Place Productions --- ### Our Interesting Challenges -- Taming AI is like harnessing alien technology <p>there may be <i>nothing like this moment</i> in human history and we’re the first to explore.</p> <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> --    -- <video src="/images/crab_hibat_99_simulation.mp4" data-autoplay loop muted height="300px"></video> <img src="/images/leo_crab_man.png" height="300px" /> <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> -- The infinite can be truly boring <p>Learning to carve out interesting and meaningful spaces. </p><!-- .element: class="fragment" --> -- Post-AI Art Economy <p>We must design an <i>economic model that lifts artists</i> and protects them from a bleary future.</p> <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> -- Rapid iteration <p>Exploring many genres with fresh eyes and new tech </p><!-- .element: class="fragment" --> --- ## Current Project -- ### Mobile Creature Card Battler Generate your own creatures <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> Fight them in Dice Combat <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> Collect your “zoo” <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> -- ### Team favorites: Banana Splitter <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> <img src="/images/banana_splitter.png" height="200px" /> <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> Lazeraptor <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> Trump-bulance (Italian Brainrot → American Brainrot) <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> --- ### Damon & Studio Atelico -- A zero-to-one game company in its Willy Wonka era. -- <p style="text-align: left;">You will be pioneering new AI techniques to match creative dreams</p> <p style="text-align: left;">You drive the creative vision across the company. </p> <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> <p style="text-align: left;">You are the perfect fit for harnessing unbelievable potential into beautiful form </p><!-- .element: class="fragment" --> -- #### Family friendly Remote + flexible in how and when you work. --- ### Atelico’s Tech can give gamers what they want -- <div class="grid-container"> <div class="grid-item">✅ Good games</div> <div class="grid-item">✅ Gamers to be treated well</div> <div class="grid-item">✅ Devs to be treated well</div> <div class="grid-item">✅ Earth to be treated well (mostly)</div> </div> -- Studio Atelico has the tech to deliver. We need a master of creative vision to land it. --- ### That’s you, I hope!