I doubt a single person at the Game Developer Conference, watching a talk constantly referring to StarCraft, was at all struggling to understand that the technique was for game development.
Even if they somehow managed to avoid that tidbit of knowledge, the memory and runtime costs were fully explained in the talk, so any reasoned developer would be able to consider the applicability to their situation.
Even if they somehow managed to avoid that tidbit of knowledge, the memory and runtime costs were fully explained in the talk, so any reasoned developer would be able to consider the applicability to their situation.