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The Use of AI in Storytelling for Videogames

Since the first video games I played, I was amazed by the stories of the characters I was playing with. I always felt astonished by the ability of video game writers to build amazing main stories, side stories, and, most of all, the dialogues between my character and the NPCs

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Esports and Cheating: A Challenge to Competitive Gaming

Esports is booming, with professional competitions drawing in millions of viewers and offering prize pools that rival traditional sports. But there’s a threat that looms large. Cheating is a significant issue that undermines the integrity, legality, and sheer thrill of the game. Let’s dig into why it matters,

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Get to Know Your Indie #3: We The People by Small Indie Company

Welcome to the third installment of the Get to Know Your Indie series! Today we present a first-person tactical survival shooter called We the People, a creation from the studio Small Indie Company. I talked with Drew, Founder, Creative Director, and Developer at Small Indie Company, about all things

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Unlocking the Power of Player Behavior Analysis

Today I’m going to talk about something super powerful that you’re going to want in your developer’s toolkit: behavioral biometrics. Behavioral biometrics is all about understanding your players so you can create a fairer, more engaging gaming experience. And what game developer doesn’t want that? So,

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The Rise of Cross-Platform Gaming, Security Issues and Its Transformative Effects

Let’s talk cross-platform gaming! Cross-platform gaming consists of those video games that you can play on more than one platform (PC, console or mobile), let’s call it one of the most remarkable breakthroughs in the gaming industry. For long, gamers have had different preferences on which

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Breaking Barriers: The Journey towards Inclusive Gaming — An Interview with Victor Dima

In the vast and ever-evolving landscape of video games, there’s a growing realization that true enjoyment knows no boundaries. Gaming was once an activity with no power to get to all kinds of people but now it is embracing a new paradigm of accessibility, one that transcends physical

Engineering

The Security Stack for Game Development

The job of a game dev cannot be easy and cannot be seen as so. A game dev despite working in the videogames industry in its most important job (the making of games) and despite having the ability to build fantastic and everlasting games, a game dev has to surpass

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Smurfs in gaming: Definition and Impact

Let’s talk about smurfs! Not the movie, of course, but about one thing in gaming that is particularly annoying for most gamers and is getting a bigger and bigger problem in the gaming industry. But what are smurfs, exactly? Smurfing in video games is when a high-ranked player

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Age Verification through Behavior Biometrics

Child well-being and safety on the internet has been a massive topic of discussion for the past twenty years or so, we have noticed way too many (one is already too many) cases of children getting hurt on so many levels because of encounters that they had on the

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A Year of Progress in the Fight Against Cheating and Fraud in Gaming

As we close out the year, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on all that we’ve achieved and look ahead to what the future holds. It’s…

Engineering

Game Engine Cheats

When building a game, you can build it from scratch or you can choose a game engine. Most game studios will choose a game engine since it…

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Driving Positivity in Video Games

This blog article is a follow-up to a webinar by Anybrain and Bodyguard.ai presented within the Fair Play Alliance. The entire webinar can be found here. The topic of the webinar was “Driving Positivity in Video Games” and with this blog post, we hope to develop a little

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Get to know your indie #2 — KEO by Redcatpig

Get to know your indie #2 — KEO by Redcatpig Welcome to number two of our “Get to know your indie” series, a series of blog posts where we present an awesome indie studio and its latest creation. Today we bring you an indie studio from the Azores, Portugal called Redcatpig

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Announcing webhook feature for bans automation

We are proud to announce the Webhooks feature that will allow our customers to automatize bans in real-time on their games. How does this work? In complex systems, you may want to provide additional event handling on your custom server, e.g. applying bans or warning players when a

Data Science

Catching Cheaters in Video Games with a Low False-Positive Rate

Here at Anybrain, we are currently focused on perfecting a cheat detection system based on player behavior analysis, without affecting the experience of legitimate players. Simply put: players click their mouses, tap their keyboards, and we analyze the way they do so. Do cheaters behave differently? Yes! Before analyzing the

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Monetization around cheaters

It is common knowledge that the world of video games and especially online video games are full of cheaters, but do these cheaters create cheats just for the simple pleasure of being better than other players, as was the custom at the beginning of this practice? Of course not, with

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We have identified the cheat, now what?

It is a fact that there is a chronic problem in video games, there are always people who try to cheat by using programs to make the gameplay easier or to get an advantage over others, these are called cheaters. Studios and game developers have been dealing with this problem

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The view of video game pros on the cheaters problem in our industry

Video games… a universe full of possibilities for creation, construction, writing, art, and fun but also frustration. Frustration is often caused by the realization that there will always be those aiming to be better at a certain video game through unfair vantages, or cheats. How many times did we fall

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Mobile emulators as a way of cheating

Emulators… a term that has been part of every gamer’s language for several years now. I first heard the word when I was trying to take a nostalgic trip back to the PS1 or GameBoy times, but nowadays an emulator is much more than that! An emulator is a

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Get to know your indie #1 — Death Carnival by Furyion Games

Today we start a new set of articles on Anybrain’s blog, the “Get to know your indie”. We are part of a gaming community that produces indie games of enormous quality and we wanted to meet their creators, and understand the difficulties and the good moments that they went

Engineering

Client-Side vs Server-Side Anti-Cheat

This topic is not an easy one to talk about, I will not approach it by telling which one is better, but only compare the two contexts in…

Bots in videogames: the future of hacking?

As you know there are multiple types of fraud in video games, and we already covered some in previous posts such as aimbot and…

Announcements

Announcing the smurf detection and search feature

This functionality is available through the user dashboard or the API. It allows direct player accounts comparison or the search for a list

Product

Are consoles still a safe haven from cheaters?

For as long as online gaming has existed, our industry has been in a never-ending battle against cheaters that keep on finding creative and…

Announcements

Scripting detection is now available on Anybrain!

We are very proud to announce the scripting detection functionality in our Platform. At Anybrain, we have made it our mission to help studios and esports organizations build a more secure and fair environment for all gamers. What is now the most popular form of entertainment in the world — and