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S10 Bonus: The Non-Deterministic Gaming Frontier: Using Generative AI to Create Endless Replayability and Walk-to-Earn Rewards with Rohith Varanasi, Co-Founder of Block Party
Nov 7, 2024 · Season 9 · 19 min
Exercise and meet your friends, with endless outcomes
Rohith Varanasi grew up in Jersey and had a chill childhood, playing videos games and sports from a young age. He wanted to learn how to build a video game, and upon googling it, decided he should build a website first. At that point.. he was hooked on coding. He got into jailbreaking the playstation and writing real code to mod games. Eventually, he got into hackathons and ended up building a web browser based on SMS called Cosmos - which went viral. Outside of tech, he is into paddle, loves going to the gym, and hanging with his girlfriend and their 1 year old cat.
Ro and his co-founder have been building a bunch of different consumer products. The latest product they built allows people to earn in game rewards by walking, and do so in a non-deterministic way. Under the hood, they are using generative AI to create endless outcomes, and optimal replay-ability.
This is the creation story of Block Party.
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