Why You Should Open Source | Slater Victoroff - Mythica | EPC 2025 HIVE
18Mythica is a company focused on building foundational tools for procedural game development. Slater Victoroff will explain why open sourcing our tools is the best choice for both our company and the industry. We’ll explore the challenges and benefits of open source and why you should consider it too.
Slater Victoroff is the CEO of Mythica, a board member at Indico Data, and an Entrepreneur in Residence at 406 Ventures. He co-founded Indico Data in 2012 to make deep learning more accessible, helping to develop LLMs, generative AI and foundation models. Slater also served as VP of Research at Neocybernetica, focusing on embodied AI and world models. He now leads Mythica, merging his deep AI expertise with procedural innovations to create open-source tools for game development. He is well known for his passionate love of mushrooms.
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:50 Background and industry context
00:03:33 Building procedural systems from scratch
00:05:14 The push to simplify procedural workflows
00:07:04 Cultural shift toward openness since 2012
00:08:55 Community impact of open research culture
00:10:51 Public awareness and media coverage
00:12:37 Personalized approaches in procedural creation
00:14:29 Asset monetization through code and art
00:16:18 Open contribution as a path to greater productivity
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