The Economics of Game Development: Budgeting for Indie vs. AAA Titles
Transformer-XL architectures process 10,000+ behavioral features to forecast 30-day retention with 92% accuracy through self-attention mechanisms analyzing play session periodicity. The implementation of Shapley additive explanations provides interpretable churn risk factors compliant with EU AI Act transparency requirements. Dynamic difficulty adjustment systems utilizing these models show 41% increased player lifetime value when challenge curves follow prospect theory loss aversion gradients.
Jacqueline Foster
March 7, 2025 published post
