Uken Inc.

$587,520.00 CAD

≈ 8 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2021-2022
Agreement period
December 1, 2021 – December 1, 2022
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2021-2022-Q4-982691

Published purpose

Uken, Inc. operating as Uken Games (Uken) is a game developer with its head office in Toronto, Ontario.  The company’s primary source of revenue comes through the sale of virtual goods and advertising revenues via the games.   Uken specializes in mobile gaming with many titles launched such as Bingo Pop, Kings of Pool, Puzzle Solitaire, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Jeopardy etc.  The firm is currently looking to develop a game in the match3 segment of the mobile gaming market.  They want to do an IRAP project to use machine learning and AI in the game development narrative.  By using AI and ML, the difficulty level of the game can be adjusted by the user behaviour. 

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