#genuary3 prompt is the fibonacci sequence: I used the fibonacci numbers for mapping circle color and position within each bloom. #genuary #p5js

Yeah, it's in-depth enough that I learned things while still being pretty accessible.

I deeply believe that one of the best ways to prepare people to deal with AI is to teach them how it actually works.

I agree that we don’t already know how to teach “AI literacy” well. But I also think literacy is too modest a goal. College students should graduate knowing how ML works; it’s liberal knowledge analogous to RNA or trig, not search-engine skills or Excel. And we do know how to teach it in that way.

When I say that I refuse to use AI to do necromancy, I do mean that rather literally.

This is not disproving my thesis that AI models are the fair folk, and should be approached accordingly.

Between the tutorialization discourse and the knowledge gated game discourse, I'm gravitating toward a theory of genre specific player learning.

New Paper: Pixie: Code-Level Mechanic Generation for Game Designers. How do you connect automatic game design to real games? Pixie is a mechanic generation system for Unity games, as an example framework for how to build AGD systems into real game platforms. Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...

Tune in to @roguelike.club in 3 hours for my talk about the analogy between physics and procedural generation! We'll see how generators can be solid, liquid or gaseous and why –just like Maxwell's Demon– designers are underrated little guys. 🍵🫖

This year's Roguelike Celebration steam sale is up! Check out some awesome games, and don't forget to buy tickets for the conference *this weekend*! (also @shing.bsky.social's art is so good, I'm so glad we got them to do this year's art!!) store.steampowered.com/curator/4122...

I Am a Doctor Now! Little blog announcing my dissertation is now published and readable! (And i have not been posting here so this also serves as the announcement that I am a PhD now lol) bjarke.it/article/i-am...

Healing from my tooth extraction has been rough, please check out my Ko-fi, perhaps leave a buck? Or just share it around

Join us for: - a peek at the 2025 Roguelike Celebration social space - a fireside chat with @perryjon.bsky.social about design & proc gen in UFO 50 - @apepers.bsky.social talking about Designing for Systems Suspense - @ezra-szanton.itch.io talking about Synergy Webs in Roguelike Deckbuilders

Not at all close. Novel-length plots are very hard. There has been a consistent, odd, overreaction on this.

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

weather: solar eclipse

There's two cardinal sins of talking about or working with AI that I think deserve instant excommunication: - Cookbooks - Necromancy

Sabina Howard-Khan Naughty Sailor she/her kombuncha enjoyer memorizes favorite poems

Chasity Murphy Quiet Maestro he/him favorite dinosaur: Creosaurus only knows how to cook spaghetti

Apple Weeks Uncanny Infiltrator she/her makes homemade mead has a tattoo of a otter

Roxy Lugo Secretive Cooper he/him agile walk pickles enjoyer learns everyone's names

Erick Hunter Romantic Cubist he/him has a scar under the right eye plays piccolo in a band snarky sense of humor

if you are interested in having a deep relationship with art of any kind, you owe it to yourself to start engaging with it the way Stacey describes here, you will have a much better time with every piece you come across and learn a ton in the process

Do you play video games? Have you played a LOT of video games? Show your gaming knowledge with this 5 minute survey! 🕹️👾 🔍 👀 We're conducting a study for the development of a video game search engine! If you're interested, please fill out the form at the following link: forms.gle/8F4zes2Q7MMY...

Initial conditions: m1=45.5 m2=62.1 m3=56.3 (solar masses) v1x=-4.432 v1y=5.803 v2x=-6.113 v2y=-1.121 v3x=-0.878 v3y=6.284 (km/s) x1=-14.0 y1=9.0 x2=-2.0 y2=-23.0 x3=13.0 y3=33.0 (AU from center) Music: Ballad with Modulations – Bourquenez

it's really hard to overstate how many of the most impactful writers, thinkers, etc of that era are just gone today. the games industry is infamous for burning through its devs; crit in some ways plays an even more important role in the scene's "institutional memory" but has even less continuity

This comes up in many of my talks (and videos). Regurgitating or reacting to even the most mundane of player actions through NPCs and related gameplay systems is a small but easy win in game design. It helps players feel engaged as the game acknowledges your presence.

Should write a version of this talk for a purely game dev audience titled "why you want to have a historian working on your game even if you think you don't need one, and yes that means you"

🧶 Fuzzy Linkography: Automatic Graphical Summarization of Creative Activity Traces we introduce a new way to analyze user activity logs from creativity support tools… …& illuminate patterns of creative divergence, convergence, idea development, & homogenization at scale arxiv.org/abs/2502.04599

this one earned an Honorable Mention at C&C 2025. presentation tomorrow! joint work w/ Amy Smith (QMUL), @barrettrees.com, @jatazak.bsky.social, @isaackarth.bsky.social, @cheesetalk.bsky.social, @jjyc.bsky.social, & Melissa Roemmele – some of whom are now seeking postdocs / industry research roles…

If your art style doesn't look completely different from page 1 to 100 is it truly a webcomic

University funding can be pretty opaque, even to current students, so there's a lot of things that people don't realize. Having international students is vital for many colleges, particularly in less-populated states. Humanities departments often subsidize other parts of the school. Et cetera.

Earlier this spring, me and 20-odd other people spent 10 weeks thinking and talking about The Browser as a place that is ALREADY A GAME ENGINE at @sfpc-study.bsky.social Well, we made some freak web games - and you can play them at LARPA in Brooklyn next week. Come through!!

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I've built several projects using Perseus Digital Library data, including a NaNoGenMo novel, so this hits pretty close to home.

DOGE terminated our current NEH grant with which we were developing a next generation Perseus. Luckily, much of the work has been done. We should be able to get much, though not all, of the work that we had planned done. The backend is fairly solid and results should appear on the front end soon.

Earthquake?

An E-bike battery burned my house down on the first day of GDC. Seeking mutual aid from financially stable colleagues. gofund.me/47306b15

relate to this bit specifically. sometimes something is not that hard to implement, but *is* hard to explain & pitch. if you want that stuff to happen, you gotta have a designer with their hands directly on the material, and trust them to try stuff without getting buy-in first.

Part 1/4 of The Dwarf Fortress documentary is out now!

then the output always surprises you. the procedurally generated art takes on a life of its own. you co-create something with the computer. math becomes art, and art becomes alive. bugs and quirks become endearing because it’s another way it seems living. i love it. 😌

Loving a detail of Jean-Baptiste Siraudin’s talk on designing Sabaac, where screenshots/videos have a list of other devs who contributed to that piece of work ❤️

Hey folks. I have another survey I'd like to get responses for, but I'm *only looking for game developers* to respond. Most people qualify, whether you enter game jams, release free experimental art on itch.io, or make AAA blockbusters - but it's not a general public thing forms.gle/uQydeogCnfkB...

I Released a Game! (two months ago) While everyone is at GDC I was busy finishing up some final touches and a blog for my game "Telegrams from the Choir Train" bjarke.it/article/i-re... I explain why I think of this game as a "communal tamagotchi".

I won't be at GDC this year but I still have some cool character tech I can show off even if I can't show off the hyper current stuff yet Tracks in Snow is my post apocalyptic road trip yuri VN where you perform a character instead of choosing dialogue options quakefultales.itch.io/tracks-in-sn...

The phenomena driving the “infinite NPC” meme: The industry started defining art as “content” Then they could make a believable “content = money” graph And now infinite content makes them believe they have an infinite money generator

I'm going to be adjacent to GDC this year; let me know if you want to meet up and talk procedural generation, generativity, design, or the current thing you're excited about.

GearHead Caramel is an episodic turn based tactics style mecha RPG with procedural narrative and a comprehensive build system. I'm currently finishing the "Raid on Pirate's Point" scenario, to be released soon. #ghrpg #TurnBasedThursday #GameDev store.steampowered.com/app/1565090/...

It's closing because the UK has introduced a law that makes it impossible for a lot of digital community spaces to remain operational any more. So it's just shutting down. The law has kind of gone underdiscussed, I feel like, it's having quite a wide impact. www.gamesindustry.biz/20-year-old-...

I haven't played UD in ~11 years, but still think of it about once a month. Sad to see it go, it was a great example of how community can use severely limited tools to generate stories. RIP to those months RPing as a fire brigade operated by the 7 vices! Reason why it's turned off is also wild.