The developer of a game that was "on the verge of service termination" reveals how he "reduced his team from about 25 to 3 people and got out of the crisis by introducing generative AI. How to get out of a crisis without layoffs or service termination
In one operated mobile game, the company was able to reduce operating costs by drastically downsizing the team and relying on generative AI, thereby avoiding the termination of the service....
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InnoGames avoided the service termination of their farming simulation game, Sunrise Village, by drastically reducing the development team from approximately 25 to 3 members and integrating generative AI. This approach, initiated around March 2026, lowered operating costs while maintaining player engagement and allowing reassigned staff to focus on new game development. The company found that using AI to create content creation tools—rather than directly generating in-game assets—and training the AI on their own data proved most effective.
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The linked article is in Japanese.
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