Gaming1 hOctober 9, 2026, 20:52

AI Driving Game Dev Takes Out Bank Loan as Demo Costs Hit $1,000 a Day

Easy Fox, the studio behind Teach My Little Sister How to Drive, spends about $1,000 a day running its demo, which uses Google Gemini and ChatGPT for a dynamic NPC. Demo players grew more than twentyfold in a month, forcing the four-person team to take out a bank loan to keep it online.

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AI Driving Game Dev Takes Out Bank Loan as Demo Costs Hit $1,000 a Day

AI driving sim demo costs about $1,000 per day to run
Demo player count grew more than twentyfold in a month
Four-person studio took a bank loan to keep the demo online
Expected AI usage will be factored into the full game's price

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