I finally made a website that collects all my lectures and teaching material: perttuh.notion.site/learning-mat... Topics include: Science of Game Design, AI Tools and Workflows, Ideation, Pitching & Marketing, Game Programming...

1/4 Join us and the Autotelic Interaction Research (AIR) group @aalto.fi / Finland to work on Computational Social Intrinsic Motivation (SIM) as PhD (4y) or postdoc (2y). Job ad w project description and application instructions: bit.ly/4jyNLGv. We're looking forward to learning about you!

New papers: FDG 2025 proceedings are finally out and I'm super proud and excited about these two 🧵

Press release on our Dark Souls and depression study. www.aalto.fi/en/news/can-...

Aalto's game design Itch page updated: aalto-gamedesign.itch.io

Jordan Magnuson's Game Poems Magazine "intent to submit" deadline approaching www.gamepoems.org/submit

A nice structured collection of AI papers github.com/FoundationAg...

Cascadeur (animation software) adds AI-driven inbetweening. This looks promising, as with their physics-based editing features, it should be easy to finetune the result, e.g., adjust how heavy or light the movement feels. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GNX...

A good thread on indie game marketing. Might be worth checking out the Steam page now and again later to see how the OP has implemented the advice given by others www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/s...

My first "fanboy" game research paper (CHI 2025)! I'm a huge Dark Souls and Elden Ring fan and in this paper, we study how DS players discuss depression on Reddit. I developed the AI-assistance part of the analysis process. acris.aalto.fi/ws/portalfil...

Lovely math & graphics wizardry 😍

Today’s game design teaching materials

Abishek Jaiswal (game designer/developer at Valo Motion, an Aalto games graduate) gave a super nice talk yesterday about designing Valo Motion's games where the players see their own bodies inside the game world www.twitch.tv/videos/23959...

This made my day: An Elden Ring demake in Bitsy 😍 The art captures the original's atmosphere incredibly well. yrannn.itch.io/bitsy-elden-...

We're seeking new HCI faculty. Would be great to have more HCI & Games colleagues, please apply! www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...

A really cool paper on why transformers need coordinate-wise adaptive learning rate openreview.net/pdf/32bac765...

I'll get straight to the point. We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT. Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff. It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵

Another unpublished Kinect prototype from 2011. This was a blast to work on—the combat managed to feel powerful and fluid. I’m the test player in the red shirt. Also my first Unity project (Unity 3.5, we previously worked with Gamebryo and Phyre) www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH0U...

Found this video of my physics-based Kinect prototypes from 2011, got a permission to upload. Still quite proud of some, wondering if there’s something to reuse/adapt for Quest 3. youtu.be/meP8jvv5kHc?...

Yay, a bi-decennial website update! users.aalto.fi/~hamalap5/

Meta Llama 3.3 LLM out. Beats gpt-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 at a fraction of the token cost and is open source. www.llama.com Disclaimer: I’d like AI to clean and do the dishes, not replace human creative work. But whatever we use AI for, I’d prefer it to be open source.

Aalto Media Lab Demo Day Wed 11 Dec, 1pm, at the new and awesome Marsio event studio, Aalto University campus. This is also the opening of the 30 year anniversary exhibition. www.aalto.fi/en/events/aa...

Bluesky is truly having an incredible run as Threads' head of product

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney was exactly what I needed during these dark times. Made me cry with empathic joy, multiple times. www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

X pushes a 40% discount of the ”verified” subscription desperately, with a full-screen ad pop-up where the close button is hidden until one scrolls down. Elon must be feeling the exodus 😂

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

TIL employee monitoring software with AI is a thing 😭 It’s of course only temporary, as it eventually provides the training data needed for automating the work. For once, I’m happy about the EU AI and data privacy laws that probably prevent this here. Or do they? www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/s...

Will become active here as soon as the current teaching crunch ends. Meanwhile: Let’s see how YouTube sharing works (our VR dance game project, CHI 2024) youtu.be/xC4vm1unpC0?...