Financial research and AI

Yup, I’m still doing a lot of work on Ridiculous Space Battles, and recently did a new trailer and took new screenshots, and may even start running ads again… but in the meantime I do a lot of fussing about investments and finance…because I weirdly enjoy that sort of thing. Somehow, I have ended up a sort of small hedge-fund manager. Its a very small hedge, but its my hedge, and I get to do what I want with it. I know a lot of people who did well from video games who then naturally use that money to make more games, or bigger games, or who publish a bunch of games by other developers. Actually for a while I did that, and published four games by other devs. Its a totally reasonably strategy. The video games business is so hit focused that to be honest the only approach that makes any sort of strategic financial sense is to go for the portfolio model, where you publish ten games and hope that the one hit pays for the nine flops (and this does seem to be the case). However, for me this…