My PhD defense has officially be scheduled and is open to the public! Would be honored if you could tune in or join in person. I'm going to be talking about player-centric approaches to game balance design and proceduralization. Calendar details here: events.ucsc.edu/event/shield...

all we can do is try again

Do you like weird puzzles? You don't mind playing the first experimental iterations of a game? Like this post and DM me your mail, I'll have a surprise in your inbox everyday of December 🎁✨

AIIDE this year was incredible: I gained a lot of insight and spent a ton of quality time with new and old friends. I'm filled with an incredible energy and excitement for work I haven't felt since the start of my PhD. Thank you all so much, and I hope to see you all again soon :)

I'm back with the last day of AIIDE 2025 live posting!

Once again live posting AIIDE 2025 Day 2!

Continuing the series, I'll be live posting about AIIDE day 1 all day today!

EXAG/INT day 2 coverage is starting now!

Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues in Edmonton this week for AIIDE! I'll be trying my hand at live tweeting the paper sessions at both the main conference and EXAG/INT, which I'll try to keep in this big reply thread (starting off tomorrow). @aiide.bsky.social @exag.bsky.social

PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else! 🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st 🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam

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. 🍵🫖

imagine myself as something beautiful

last night i finished silksong: one of the best games i've played in years, and a game that felt like it took 7 years to make! i found myself consistently impressed by the scale and care put into almost every aspect of the game, and overall a very satisfying experience

@pyrofoux.bsky.social 🔢 SUDOHACK knivesandpaintbrushes.org/younes Play against the rules and solve the sudoku puzzles your way in SUDO HACK.

this was a really lovely gift and it is immediately going on my corkboard (alongside @pyrofoux.bsky.social's postcard and the other keepsakes from Dagstuhl)

having an amazing time at Dagstuhl so far! it's an honor to be invited and to be surrounded by such amazing researchers and friends :) 4th pic is me after being awake for 24+ hrs to get here

STEEL BALL RUN

this is exactly what i needed to read today: i feel like over the last few months i've lost being silly due to work and life, and it's starting to hurt my soul 😔 here's to posting more and being silly

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/...

here at the Vancouver aquarium with my friend the giant otter

got master ball tier after learning VGC over the winter break! pokemon is very fun :3

wow, cave story is 20!! this game really changed my brain when i first played it. it made me realize i can make games too! and it's a game you can just download for free on your computer!

We’re running a study (Pro00129448) on adaptive strategy agents in games and we would like to invite you all to participate! Visit sites.ualberta.ca/~toume for more details (English speakers, only 18 and older)! The study should take up to 15 minutes to complete (~10m of gameplay, ~5m survey)!

Honored to keynote EXAG this morning, talking about Kitfox and procedural generation. My experiences with proc-gen are a bit "wandering guy in Pulp Fiction meme" but that's okay. Progress as non-linear is an essential truth.

my bisky profile is under construction! trying to find all my old mutuals from cursed website, please enjoy pretzel ruka in the meantime