We are pleased to announce that I3D 2026 will be hosted at Lucasfilm in May 2026. Conference Dates and Location: Lucasfilm - 1110 Gorgas Ave, San Francisco, California 94129, USA 13 (Wednesday) to 15 (Friday) of May, 2026 Conference Homepage: i3dsymposium.org/2026/ #I3D2026

The I3D 2026 Call for Poster Submissions has been published! Submission deadline: 20 March 2026 Find more information on the website: i3dsymposium.org/2026/cfp-pos... #I3D2026

Hey, we know that one! We’ll take “Tech Schools” for $2000 please, @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social. #Jeopardy

Reupping two TT job openings we have. We start reviewing applications at the end of next week (Nov 1!): Joint Comp Sci + Physics position, open rank: american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-... Joint Comp Sci + Math/Stat position, Assistant level: american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/AU/job...

2026 internships available in my team at The LEGO Group! Internships in Story, Ideation, Concept Model Design (ie, building with bricks), Prototyping (3D printing etc), Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!) Physical (springs and spinny things) Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)

📢 #AIIDE25 schedule has been announced! sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/... ⏰ Early registration ends Oct 10, Don’t miss out!

This includes a No. 3 in the USA ranking for our Interactive Games and Media department (IGM) in computing-oriented undergraduate game design programs.

Faculty job — please help spread the word! At UC Santa Cruz we have two games degrees, one in Engineering and one in Arts. This is a job with the Arts folks, who include super cool creators like @mattiebrice.bsky.social & @swensen.bsky.social recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01998

We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games. Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.

Job ad now up! We have an opening for a tenure-track or tenured professor, joint between Computer Science and Physics.

I did not know that there's been recent progress on shortest paths, of all things!

To celebrate over 20 years of AAIDE we want to highlight our Best Paper winners so far! Every week we will add one to this thread until we've caught up 👾

2025 update to my Institutions Active in Technical Games Research ranking, which looks at who publishes in CS+games conferences and journals (AIIDE, FDG, CHI Play, IEEE ToG, etc.)

The CFP for the Wordplay Workshop at #EMNLP2025 is out! We welcome any work that sits at the intersection of #NLP and games/narrative. We are looking for regular papers (4-8 pgs) and extended abstracts about open challenges in the space (2 pgs) Papers due: August 29 wordplay-workshop.github.io/cfp/

This is a really bad metaphor. Houses serve a purpose, but math homework doesn't NEED to be solved. I like Ted Chaing's metaphor: using AI for homework is like using a forklift to move weights in a gym. No one needs weights in a gym to be moved. The desired change is /within/ you.

This blog post makes so many great points. I want to highlight the point about industry benefiting from not having to pay for the cost of trainings their scientists. It’s why AI Industry labs are so productive. They’re staffed with fully trained phds with 5-10 years of experience. It’s amazing…

New Post: Please Do, In Fact, @ Me. I wrote a little bit about games academia/industry discourse, and what I think seem to be some common misconceptions about academic publishing (and academia in general, but mostly focusing on how to talk to academics). www.possibilityspace.org/blog-academi...

New Game: Mike Cook Presents SQORP! A Digital Puzzle Game It's a quick little game about laying tiles in a grid, inspired by a mathematical puzzle. Play free on itch, in the browser: illomens.itch.io/sqorp #pico8

We (I, Matthew Barthet, Roberto Gallotta, Antonios Liapis, @togelius.bsky.social, Georgios Yannakakis) would like to announce the Procedural Content Generation Benchmark (PCG Benchmark). The PCG Benchmark allows users working in PCG research to test their algorithms against a variety of games.

We are very pleased to announce that AIIDE'25 will be back at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from November 10-14! Paper deadline June 21 AOE. Join us with your work at the intersection of AI and Digital Entertainment! sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

Hello! I have a little survey about procedural generation and games. No expert knowledge required - it's for anyone to take and fill in. It'll take about 5 minutes to complete. RTs appreciated! forms.gle/AN4zFDxodQyx...

We have a bunch of great talks from previous years' summer schools, and we're starting to put them online on YouTube. For more great talks, come to this year's summer school!

Want to do a 🎓 PhD in 🎮 games and 📊 data? I have a 💸 studentship for you: Unpacking Casual Game Engagement Across Time Scales. @ Imperial College London w/ Nottingham University & King (of Candy Crush), deadline March 1. Sadly, UK home students only. To learn more: bit.ly/casual-phd Pls share!

Overleaf went down in Nov. 2019 and stalled my full day of work. It got me in the habit of writing important LaTeX projects in Git, using Overleaf as a web interface. Here is a tutorial for setting up a LaTeX project mirrored between Overleaf, GitHub, GitLab, etc: www.scivision.dev/overleaf-wit...

Hello world! I have had a Bluesky account for a while now, but never got it up and running because I am weird and use the web interface. I really like the vibe of this website. The load times are snappy and the design is simple. Reminds me of Twitter! Looking forward to being more active.