Ludo Score 2.0

We're excited to announce significant improvements to the Ludo Score system with the introduction of component-specific metrics that dive deep into individual aspects of your game. Beyond the core market metrics (Chart Dominance, Trend Potential, Newcomer Impact, and Creative Edge), you can now get detailed insights into your game's Mechanic Match, Theme Harmony, Subgenre Synergy, and Artistic Appeal. Each of these new metrics comes with its own supporting games and visualization tools, helping you understand how specific elements of your concept align with market preferences.

We've also improved the Game Concept tool to easily allow the Ludo Score analysis for work-in-progress game concept documents. This means you can now get valuable market insights earlier in your development process, as you're drafting your game design document. The system analyzes your concept as you develop it, providing immediate feedback on market alignment and potential opportunities. Whether you're brainstorming mechanics, defining your art style, or refining your theme, you'll get specific insights about how each component might perform in the market.

A game-changing addition is the new interactive chat feature for each metric. You can now have in-depth conversations about any aspect of your game's market analysis by clicking the "Ask Ludo" button next to each metric. Want to understand why your Theme Harmony score is what it is? Curious about how to improve your Mechanic Match? Need clarification about market trends? The system combines your game concept details, current market data, and metric-specific analysis to provide personalized insights and actionable suggestions. This creates a powerful feedback loop where you can iterate on your concept with direct market intelligence.

All visualizations and data presentations have been updated to reflect these changes, making it easier than ever to understand your game's position in the market and identify specific areas for improvement. Additionally, the scoring system has been refined to use a clearer 1-10 scale instead of the previous 0-100 range, to better reflect the accuracy and stability of the Ludo Score.

With these new additions, the Ludo Score becomes an even more valuable tool throughout your entire development process, from initial concept to final polish.

Daily Trends 2.0

We've completely redesigned Daily Trends to make market analysis more intuitive and actionable. The new dashboard organizes market opportunities into three clear views - Quickly Rising, Established, and Increasing New Releases - helping you instantly understand where the market is heading and what's consistently performing well. Our new Market Landscape visualization plots games based on their market share and growth, making it easier than ever to spot emerging opportunities.

The biggest addition is our new specific trends analysis across Game Mechanics, Themes, Art Styles, and Subgenres. Instead of just looking at overall game topics, you can now dive deep into specific elements - whether you want to track which gameplay mechanics are gaining traction, which themes are resonating with players, or which visual styles are trending in the market.

And don't worry - if you prefer the previous view of detailed topic lists, you can still access the traditional topic lists by clicking "More" in any dashboard section.

From emerging opportunities to established successes, from gameplay mechanics to visual styles - getting a complete view of the gaming market has never been this easy.

Image Generation Just Got a Major Upgrade!

We're thrilled to announce a significant enhancement to our Image Generator tool. This powerful upgrade brings a new level of creativity and precision to your game development process. Our advanced AI now excels at interpreting and generating images based on highly detailed, descriptive prompts. This means you can bring your most intricate and imaginative ideas to life with unprecedented accuracy.

Whether you're visualizing complex game environments, designing unique characters, or creating stunning concept art, the new Image Generator is up to the task. Simply provide a detailed description of your vision, and watch as the AI transforms your words into striking visuals.

We've also added a new "Asset" mode to the Image Generator. This mode is specifically designed to create images of individual game assets, such as characters, items, or UI elements. This new mode should streamline the process of creating specific game elements for your projects.

Introducing Step-by-Step Ideation: Guided Game Concept Creation

We're thrilled to announce our new Step-by-Step ideation feature, now available in the Ludo.ai platform. This powerful tool guides you through the process of creating a game concept, combining creativity with market insights.

The Step-by-Step ideation process includes 8 key stages:

1. Platform Selection
2. Genre
3. Core Mechanic
4. Player Perspective
5. Setting/World
6. Art Style

How to use it:

1. Access the tool from your Ludo.ai dashboard.
2. Progress through each step, selecting options or entering custom choices.
3. Use the Ludo Score accompanying each option to gauge market potential.
4. Refine your concept by going back to previous steps or resetting the process.
5. After confirming your choices, develop your idea further in the Game Concept tool.

Key features:

• Dynamic option generation based on your previous choices
• Custom input options for personalized concepts
• 'Refresh Options' button for new suggestions
• Seamless integration with the Game Concept tool for further development

Use the Step-by-Step ideation feature to structure your brainstorming process, explore market-informed game ideas, and kickstart your game development journey with confidence.

Introducing the Ludo Score: AI-Powered Market Potential Analysis

We're excited to unveil our new Ludo Score feature, now available in both the Game Ideator and Game Concept tools. This AI-powered score provides instant insights into your game concept's market potential.

The Ludo Score ranges from 0 to 100 and is based on four key metrics:

1. Chart Dominance: How well your concept matches current top games
2. Trend Potential: How well your concept matches games rapidly rising in popularity
3. Newcomer Impact: Competitiveness among recent releases
4. Creative Edge: Overall uniqueness of your idea

How to use it:

1. In the Game Ideator: Each generated concept comes with its Ludo Score.
2. In the Game Concept tool: Watch your score update in real-time as you refine your idea.

Use the Ludo Score to refine your game ideas, balance market fit with innovation, and make data-driven decisions in your game development process.

Ludo Score in the Game Ideator:

Ludo Score in the Game Concept tool:

Introducing Ludo.ai's New Chat Assistant

Chat Assistant

We're excited to announce the launch of a new chat feature on Ludo.ai, designed to elevate your game design process! This intuitive tool allows you to interact with Ludo.ai in a conversational manner, making it easier than ever to:

• Learn about Ludo.ai tools Ask questions about how to use the platform
  • What is the game ideator and how can I use it?
• Generate ideas and get game design assistance Request the generation of new game ideas, of specific game elements, or ask any other game design questions.
  • Write a character for a futuristic racing game
  • Generate an idea for a city-building game with magic.
  • How can a swiping mechanic be used in a FPS game?
• Stay updated on trends Receive real-time insights on the latest market trends and top charts, and make questions about them.
  • What are the current trends in action games?
  • Are there any FPS games currently in the top charts?
• Game search If you mention specific games in your message or ask Ludo to search for some games, Ludo will try to find those games in an up-to-date database of 2.5M games, and use them to give you a factual answer.
  • Whats unique about Hole.io?
  • I'm looking for FPS games with low poly graphics
• Generate and edit images Create and refine visual assets through simple commands.
  • Generate a steampunk airship concept art
  • Edit the character to add a glowing sword

This experimental feature aims to streamline your workflow and boost creativity. We still offer all the tools you already know, providing the highest quality results with all the options and information you need. But the Chat Assistant provides a central point where you can interact with most tools on the platform in a conversational manner. See some more examples below.

New LLM powering Ludo

Along with the new chat assistant, we now have a more capable Language Learning Model (LLM) powering all text generation features.

You should get more relevant and coherent results in the Game Ideator and Game Concept tools, and higher quality responses in the Ask Ludo feature in the Game Concept tool. This upgrade ensures that your interactions with Ludo.ai are more efficient and productive, helping you craft the next hit game with ease.

New Game Ideation UI

We have revamped the Game Ideator user interface to offer more information and about the generated game ideas, and include current market context. For each game idea, you can now see:

• Similar Trending Games Similar or related games that are currently in the top charts (click for additional information)
• Similar Games Similar games found in all games ever released in Play Store, App Store, or Steam.
• Related Game Trends Related trending game topics (click for additional information)
• Generation Parameters What were the inputs used to generate this game idea

With this information, you can make better informed choices without leaving the game ideation tool, speeding up the brainstorming and research process.

To try the new UI, simply head over to the Headquarters or the Game Ideator and generate some new game ideas.

Improved image generation quality and editing capabilities

Improved image quality

We’ve rolled out a number of improvements to our image generator that improve the quality of the generated images, specifically:

• Images now generally have more and better details.
• Improved image contrast and clarity.
• Results are now more diverse: when the same image generation prompt is used, you can now expect more different and varied results.

Example of 3 image generations with the prompt “endless runner”:

Image edition with instructions

When editing images, you can now write in the prompt what you want changed in the image.

To use this feature, click on the Edit button in one of the images in the image generator (or in the Game Concept tool), and then type in your modification instruction in the prompt.

Notice that the image strength dictates how much the original image should be preserved. So, if you want to make large modifications to your image, you should set the strength lower.

Possible instructions include:

• Add new elements
• Removing or modify existing elements
• Replace some elements with something else
• Change the color scheme, setting, or style.

Here’s an example:

Ludo's Major Update: Smarter AI, More Creativity, and Trend Insights

We’re excited to announce a major update to Ludo, bringing you a host of new features and improvements across the board.

New LLM powering Ludo AI

We've introduced a powerful new language model (LLM), trained on a significantly larger dataset of gaming and game development knowledge, and with a larger context window.

This upgrade, combined with a new inference infrastructure, delivers significantly faster generations, better chat and game concept interactions, and overall higher quality and higher relevance results.

Game Ideator and Image Generator with history

You can now see all your previous generations in the Game Ideator and Image Generator. You can now easily go back to one of your previously generated ideas and start generating new ones based on it.

Input suggestions in the Game Ideator

Don’t know where to start? Ludo now gives you a hand. We analyse current trends and your past activity to give you suggestions for inputs to use in the Game Ideator tool. Try them out or combine them with your own inputs.

Improved trends

We added clear titles for trending topics, and added a new sorting option for topics: "Uniqueness". You can now list the trending game topics or new releases game topics by originality. Get inspired by unexpected game trends.

Trending topics as inputs throughout the platform

Across the Headquarters, Game Ideator, Image Generator, Search, Trends, and Market Analysis, you can now use as input a trending topic. Just start typing and Ludo will search for relevant trending topics, which you can add to your inputs.

Improved image generation creativity

The creative mode in the Image Generator has been greatly improved. Even when your input is simple and minimal, Ludo can now generate a good variety of elaborate and detailed images.

New element types and better images in Game Concepts

We’ve added new sections to the Game Concept related to Monetization: Monetization Model; In-App Purchases; and Live Events. You can now more easily get help from Ludo to turn your game into a commercial success.

Your feedback and support have been invaluable in shaping Ludo into the powerful tool it is today. We encourage you to dive in and explore all the new features and improvements. As always, we welcome your feedback and suggestions as we continue to refine and enhance the platform.

Auto Game Concept

Get ready for "Auto Game Concept," a revolutionary feature set to transform your game development process. With just a selection of a generated game idea, Ludo will automatically craft a comprehensive game concept for you. This includes detailed sections on mechanics, features, characters, and more, accompanied by vivid images. It’s like having a creative brainstorming partner that not only suggests ideas but also fleshes them out into complete game concepts, making your creative process smoother and more efficient.

Just click "Select this idea" in a generated game concept and then choose one of the templates (or make your own!)

"Ask Ludo" Chatbot

We're thrilled to introduce "Ask Ludo," our newest feature in the Game Concept tool. This advanced AI chatbot is designed to interactively assist you in refining and developing your game ideas. Whether you need quick suggestions, feedback, or guidance on your game concepts, "Ask Ludo" is here to provide immediate, intelligent support. This innovative tool is a testament to our commitment to enhancing the game development process with AI-driven solutions, making ideation more interactive and efficient than ever.

Improved Image Generator

Ludo.ai is proud to introduce our new and improved Image Generator, developed specifically for Indie Game Developers and Video Game Studios. While we have made various iterations and upgrades to our Image Generator tool in the past, this marks a significant milestone in the evolution of Ludo.ai’s image generation technology.

Video Generator

We've recently launched a beta version of our Video Generator feature. This new tool allows for text-to-video, video-to-video, and image-to-video conversions, providing a useful, albeit preliminary, way to visualize game concepts. While still in the development phase, it offers a unique opportunity for users, especially indie studios, to experiment with different styles and presentations of their game ideas. This feature is part of our ongoing effort to enhance the game development experience with innovative tools.