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June 24, 2024 at 8:45 PM

reggie 🔜 BLFC

@hoppits.gay

medium.com/embarkstudio... just reading this article and nothing jumps out to me as actual like, generative AI usage, which makes me so confused because why does steam have a disclaimer for this

How we overhauled our animation workflow with machine learning, teaching physically-based AI-agents to walk on their own.

October 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM

reggie 🔜 BLFC

@hoppits.gay

im being stupid and using the wrong term but yeah machine learning, there's an article from one of their devs from a few years ago about using it for animations for all of the robots medium.com/embarkstudio...

How we overhauled our animation workflow with machine learning, teaching physically-based AI-agents to walk on their own.

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November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM

Gabe Rundlett

@gaberundlett.bsky.social

if I were in your position, I'd start with cascaded grids or "clip maps", in which you allocate cells sparsely. My first time seeing that was in Kajiya's irradiance cache.
user-images.githubusercontent.com/16522064/170...

github.com/EmbarkStudio...

January 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM

domi

@domi.zip

Generative AI is not only LLMs. They trained enemies movement and animations in generated world. They are not hand crafted, they are generated by having AI agent learn to move medium.com/embarkstudio...

How we overhauled our animation workflow with machine learning, teaching physically-based AI-agents to walk on their own.

Update rustsec v0.31 by jayvdb · Pull Request #805 · EmbarkStudios/cargo-deny

November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM

Dirkjan Ochtman

@djc.ochtman.nl

If your cargo-deny runs are failing this morning, it’s because we merged an advisory with v4 CVSS rating which only recently became supported in rustsec 0.31 (released 15 days ago). Fix submitted in github.com/EmbarkStudio..., workaround in github.com/rustsec/advi....

Fixes #804 See https://github.com/rustsec/rustsec/releases/tag/rustsec%2Fv0.31.0

GitHub - EmbarkStudios/kajiya: 💡 Experimental real-time global illumination renderer 🦀

November 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM

David Peipei

@davidpei.bsky.social

SVGF / ASVGF are pretty good start.

Haven't deeply looked, but I remember that Tomasz Stachowiak did some pretty good job here as well: github.com/EmbarkStudio...

💡 Experimental real-time global illumination renderer 🦀 - EmbarkStudios/kajiya

medium.com/embarkstudio...

February 20, 2026 at 10:02 AM

Knoebel

@knoebel.bsky.social

Sign Ups for Embark Studio's 3rd game are now up.

"Wim" is a creative 3D Sandbox Platformer.

Embark is also working on 'The Finals' and 'Arc Raiders'.

wim.live/en/

medium.com/embarkstudio...

November 24, 2023 at 2:03 PM

Panic

@decisivepanic.bsky.social

How we overhauled our animation workflow with machine learning, teaching physically-based AI-agents to walk on their own.

November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM

Avros Kyargath 🎮⚔️ | JRPG Protagonist Vtuber (🎲)

@avroskyargath.bsky.social

A quote name checking the game they released in 2023 is not from 2018. It says he left EA in 2018 and the tech in question he is talking about from their own blog post that the CEO is calling AI now is from 2020: medium.com/embarkstudio...

November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM

Bossett

@bossett.social

it's really blurry with arc raiders medium.com/embarkstudio... - looks like they did a bunch of ML stuff as well (seems fine?), and there's benefit to muddying the waters between procedural & AI so they can say "here's 10 things which are inoffensive (and 1 thing people will be mad about")

November 16, 2025 at 5:35 AM

Matt Boyd

@3psboyd.bsky.social

I mean, I like it when technology lets fewer humans do more work. I'm not mad at bulldozers because I want there to be 200 guys manually carrying rocks instead. The animation stuff, also "AI," is pretty cool!

medium.com/embarkstudio...

How we overhauled our animation workflow with machine learning, teaching physically-based AI-agents to walk on their own.

GitHub - EmbarkStudios/cargo-deny: ❌ Cargo plugin for linting your dependencies 🦀

November 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM

barrett ✨

@barretts.club

cargo-deny is vital for business projects where security is very important

it lints your dependencies! github.com/EmbarkStudio...

❌ Cargo plugin for linting your dependencies 🦀. Contribute to EmbarkStudios/cargo-deny development by creating an account on GitHub.

May 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM

Basic Cable Cody

@basiccable.games

Not out here to try and necessarily defend Embark here, but if you're curious - here's the tech blog they put out in 2020 referencing their internal "scan from video tool"

medium.com/embarkstudio...

October 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM

exusia.bsky.social

@exusia.bsky.social

This is actually a rather interesting approach on using machine learning, let alone the irony of it being used by machines to learn to walk. And that was way back in 2021 already: medium.com/embarkstudio...

How we overhauled our animation workflow with machine learning, teaching physically-based AI-agents to walk on their own.

GitHub - EmbarkStudios/kajiya: 💡 Experimental real-time global illumination renderer 🦀

November 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM

Achai

@achai.bark.how

As an example, Kajiya (github.com/EmbarkStudio...) and UE5 Lumen are mostly screen space. So indirect lighting contribution changes based on camera angle. And UE5 Lumen requires everything to have a UV map iirc.

💡 Experimental real-time global illumination renderer 🦀 - EmbarkStudios/kajiya

medium.com/embarkstudio...

naavik.co/digest/embar...

July 3, 2024 at 5:46 PM

Owl-Shaped Bed.

@spyre.hoot.gay

Technology
Embark's founders built a proprietary
technology stack to help differentiate the studio, and has been highlighting the potential for Al to create new patterns of play and accelerate game development since its
inception in 2018.

Embark also uses a procedurally aided process in character creation, significantly reducing the time it takes to create and iterate character
models. In animation, the company has leveraged machine learning to train NPCs to move, interact, and respond to their environments. The company also leverages AI for character voice lines, reducing the time required to add new audio from months to hours.
Beyond art and animation, Embark has also pushed technical boundaries at the backend, including technology that enables the fast-paced movement and destruction of the
environment in The Finals to take place on the server side rather than being processed on the players' hardware. It has developed an open-source tool called Quilkin in partnership with Google Cloud, a user datagram protocol proxy for game servers that allows game studios to access the same secure and
optimized network capabilities as larger game companies.

Our ambition as a studio is to make use of these breakthroughs and remove as many of the tedious, manual tasks from our own workflows as possible. In certain areas, like hard-surface modeling or character creation, our artists are now able to create content in days, where it used to take weeks, by applying procedural tools.
We want to show you all what this looks like in practice, in everything from environment art to animation. So stay tuned for more on this in the weeks to come, kicking off with an upcoming post on our approach to content creation from my colleague and Embark co-founder Rob Runesson.

September 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM

Lacke

@lackedragon.bsky.social

And I hope the devs do stay true to the world they want to build.

However, it is known they used LLM for the machines AI in game :
medium.com/embarkstudio...

I really hope they better describe what they really generated via AI in the steam page (I did asked in the forum but no real answer)

How we overhauled our animation workflow with machine learning, teaching physically-based AI-agents to walk on their own.

GitHub - EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu: 🐉 Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders 🚧

October 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM

Arthur

@arthurperpixel.bsky.social

I've contributed to github.com/tracel-ai/burn which has github.com/tracel-ai/cu...! Kernels are more "pseudo" rust though, but still powerful!

github.com/EmbarkStudio... supports 'real' rust on GPU (including allocations!). Can be a bit tricky as it requires a specific nightly version.

🐉 Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders 🚧 - EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu