Yes, exactly this:

We'll be announcing the AIIDE'25 keynotes in the next couple of weeks and our first one to announce is this really exciting look at applying research work in industry from @luked.bsky.social and Nadine Perez!

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 👾

"Oh what's this on Steam, a Wholesome Games Celebration of games that 'inspire hope, joy, and introspection'? Don't mind if I do!" he said to himself, and booted up Crusader Kings III.

Ok this was kind of a wild game, and an unexpected collaboration between Firaxis and EA. Basically you built golf courses for little computer people, and they walked around, played, and judged your designs. It was great. :)

#GenCon2025: Oh wow, Elements of Game Design is in absolutely stunning company at the MIT Press booth - right between @chaimg.bsky.social 's Building SimCity and @rich-lem.bsky.social 's Playful Production Process, both amazing. And such a great selection of RPG / D&D books on the upper shelf!

the actual experts: “it can do at best 20% of the things you’re asking for and of the actual interesting stuff it CAN do which doesn’t take over existing human work, none of your development processes are set up to incorporate that”

I was at Quimby's randomly on Friday, and decided to buy My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book One, mainly because of the quote on the cover ("absolutely astonishing") from Chris Ware whose work I've followed for decades... 1/2 www.fantagraphics.com/products/my-...

What are the European alternatives to Google Docs and Microsoft 365 for students, writers, and project workers? I couldn't find any good answers, so I have reviewed the four top packages and provided my recommendations. I hope you find it useful! www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2...

WE ALREADY HIT OUR FIRST STRETCH GOAL!! This is madness!!

New blog post: Using flow field pathfinding on a voronoi procedurally generated map to simulate 20,000 traders moving around www.redblobgames.com/blog/2025-05...

Just wanted to share some awesome news - @mitpress.bsky.social published a Turkish edition of Elements of Game Design!

@mitpress.bsky.social there might be something going on with your web server? mitpress.mit.edu intermittently returns "Error 403 Forbidden" and has been all week - same with individual book URLs.

I wrote something up for AI people who want to get into bluesky and either couldn't assemble an exciting feed or gave up doomscrolling when their Following feed switched to talking politics 24/7.

Ooh, it's Independent Bookstore Day! If you're in Chicago, there's a nice map here: www.chilovebooks.com

Did you know that the ACM now has a games research journal? I didn't. :) It has a very impressive vision - worth checking out:

Fellow indie devs at Triple Eye are releasing three games simultaneously (!!!), this Tuesday April 15th. That's taking "sim-shipping" to a whole new level :) Check them out here: @tripleeyegames.com

Gamedev friends - this is a great conference to present your work on game AI, procedural content generation, interactive storytelling, and other computational creativity work. If you're interested in doing a talk or a demo about your work, check it out:

We're hiring at @mitpress.bsky.social! I'm looking for a new assistant to work on my list and the environmental policy list. You can find more details and apply directly here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Looking forward to this talk!

In "Too Much Fun," video game theorist @jesperjuul.bsky.social tells the surprising history of the Commodore 64—the best-selling home computer of all time. Join him for an AMA at r/IAmA on Tuesday, Feb. 18th, at 10 am ET!

Heck yeah

Having a great time with Civ VII. It adds a lot of interesting new ideas, and clearly riffs on the Civ IV/V-era design, and that is very much my thing :)

New starter pack! Game developers and researchers doing novel work in AI for games and interactive entertainment. go.bsky.app/9tfZAm

This is the Doom sequel we truly need: fewer monster closets and jump scares, and more cheese and crackers and sauntering. Gen X is here for this.

Come do your PhD with me at Imperial College in London! The LISS DTP funds 3.5y PhD tuition and stipend (+1y masters), deadline Jan 24: liss-dtp.ac.uk/applying-to-....

Me, earlier: haha wouldn't it be funny if all these appliances picked up each other's voices and started having a group chat? I wonder how long it would take to prototype this... Me, a few hours later: oh no, oh no no no no no

Oh interesting, the Chicago Transit Authority has a bsky account *and* they archived their old Twitter account.

Yes, we’re hiring another historian! Remote within US only, unfortunately (I do not make the rules). And Mark is correct that we’re interested in hearing from History PhDs!

I met Peter Molyneux at a guest lecture. I mentioned my family's favourite Bullfrog game was Dungeon Keeper. Peter broke eye contact, looked into the middle distance & quietly said, "Yes, that was an interesting one to make.". He didn't offer any more than that. Turns out, very interesting! 👇🏻

Ok, here's a new year's idea for 2025: I should do weekly posts on awesome game AI papers. There's _so much_ interesting game AI work that has been flying under the radar, going back decades. And basically all of it is light years away from the "generative AI" stuff taking over the zeitgeist.

Oh this is *delightful*, especially if you remember the Pentium bug fiasco. This op-ed has it all: 90s cyberspace mysticism, fin-de-siècle jitters about trusting technology, weird Protestant-vs-Catholic angles, and even actual CPU internals explanations! They don't write them like this anymore. :)

This is, of course, a bad summary from the NYT. From the article: "our sensory systems gather data at ∼1⁢ billion bits/s". But it all gets distilled down, and our attention, deliberation, and behavior control mechanisms operate in a slower and more serial fashion:

Words don’t mean anything anymore

You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…

Now that's a fun framing. :) And if writing is hostile, then game design is frankly despotic. Because games aren't satisfied to merely impose visions, they also impose agency - give the players new ways of being, meanwhile also ablating their ability to do anything outside of the design.

REMINDER: Application review starts January 1. Do you know someone with a grad degree who also does game design and/or animation? Are they looking for FT employment? We have a great new program in Games & Animation and would like for them to help us teach within it and build upon it!

We created an interactive guide to the Steam Winter Sale: wintersaleexplorer.com

Cool thread on PCG design and Elite

Computer scientists believe that soon every home will be able to have their own artificial intelligence machine on their own desktops (Source.)

Recordings of the AIIDE 2024 talks are now up on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wJO...

Today I learned that some of the Symbolics keyboard caps were typeset in Optima and now I have a new life goal

By the way, I'm sure I've missed people, or had no idea if they're on bsky yet. Please suggest additions!

New starter pack! Game developers and researchers doing novel work in AI for games and interactive entertainment. go.bsky.app/9tfZAm

I don't usually comment on pop-sci pieces on AI because, whatever, it's pop-sci. But this thesis is about *practitioners,* and it's just so far off. There simply aren't two camps in AI, who think either "it works and people use it" or "it's useless and will never achieve AGI". 🧵 1/

I don't usually comment on pop-sci pieces on AI because, whatever, it's pop-sci. But this thesis is about *practitioners,* and it's just so far off. There simply aren't two camps in AI, who think either "it works and people use it" or "it's useless and will never achieve AGI". 🧵 1/

There is deep, hard-earned wisdom in this post.

What can I say? When I'm doing a long coding or writing session, Akhnaten is one heck of an excellent companion.

Excited to announce our talk “Built in Layers: (Re)Creating History with the Narrative System in Civilization VII” at the Narrative Summit at GDC! Looking forward to diving into the workings of our narrative system with some brilliant people ✨