It seems to be a fad for egregores, tulpas, golems, and memes to go completely feral.

Hey all! My discussion with @rushkoff.com on the Team Human podcast is live so please check it out! From the dawn of the internet to the AI revolution; a conversation about games, magic, AI, optimism, and caution. ✌️🤖

Tech companies keep firing people and telling us that it's because of AI. I believe the reality is that they're firing people because no one enjoys using their products anymore. "AI efficiency" sounds a lot better than "becoming irrelevant". #AI

I have to post again. 5,000 game demos. How the hell do people decide what to play?

Wow! It’s #nextfest over at Steam. Prepare to encounter almost 5,000 demos from up and coming games!

I was in NY last month and had the fantastic opportunity to be invited to participate (in person, no zoom!) in Douglas Rushkoff's Team Human podcast! Episode dropping soon :) Until then, check out all his fine work here: www.teamhuman.fm #teamhuman

Just got out of The Backrooms movie. Or did I? #backrooms

I love it that the first jungle gym was an educational game created in the hopes that children could understand the fourth dimension. "Mimsy Were the Bogoves" iykyk #notsciencefiction

Hey! If you’re interested in Gen AI and games and the safety issues of millions of people chatting with live AI my GDC talk is up for free. Check it out! #AI #gamedev #gdc

Little bit of game news and some context. NBC is creating a Wordle game show. However, it was already a televised game show in the 80's called Lingo! Also the game itself is the last of a lineage of similar games starting with "Cows and Bulls" in the early 1900's. #wordle #iruineditforyou

I have never felt so seen. Finally someone understands how I feel when I eat a great lunch. 🙏 #lunch #kpop #unchild

ICE recruits gamers with "Halo" memed ads. Halo co-creator says the ad "makes me sick". Agree! #halo #ice #videogames

I think sometimes UX is the window into the dead-eyed soul of this new crop of tech companies. I signed up for OpenRouter and after creating my account a marketing survey popped up on every page with no way to cancel it. It's hard, as a UX designer, to convey how creepy this is. #UX #AI

The video game musical no one saw coming :) #immersiveart #April1

I love PAX East. It’s a conference where you are encouraged to actually play games. Prototypes, 40 year old games, TTRPGs, AAA titles, and everything else. Just thousands of people playing games together. #paxeast #games #❤️

Heading to PAX East this Friday if anyone wants to chat about AI and game design :)

Lol 😆 I just love creators unafraid of cringe and criticism. It’s like sci-fi from back in the day. @trishacode.com!!

I don’t know how to make this sound as exciting as it feels. But an AI can make all kinds of software just by asking it. You don’t have to buy anything. The feature set is whatever you want it to be. No ads. No subscriptions. Just 15 minutes and a few bucks. #AI #genai

$6k a month is a ton for a non-profit or individual but it’s nothing for some companies. Some get their storage at cost anyway. Surely as we build all these massive new processing facilities someone can give a little back? Come on! 😤

Just got back from speaking about live generative AI in games at GDC. What a crowd! AI may not be making a splash at most game conventions but at the developers conference it was EVERYWHERE. I felt right at home here! AI tools, vibe coding platforms, and games are coming fast! #AI #gamedev

Getting ready to give my talk on Generative AI and safety at GDC! #ai #gdc

Excited to share I'll be giving a talk on Safety in Games with Generative AI at GDC this year! Find out what happens when your "content" is also a content creator! Adversarial creativity ensues. If you're in town and want to talk about AI in games, let me know. ! ✨ #AI #gamedev #GDC

Backrooms movie plot thoughts The backrooms has always reminded me of an AI. Close, but not quite right. The style but too many fingers. Form, but no understanding of the *use*. Close enough. It isn't proc-gen. That would be random and endless, but correct. #backrooms 🧵

It's the Official Teaser in HD of the Kane Pixels BACKROOMS! &^%$ yeah! #kino #backrooms #lfg

Ads are coming to AI and this is bad * ♾️ . I'm an AI enthusiast, however AI ads border on catastrophic harm. They have too much information and the AI is much too persuasive. It will be the most manipulative form of advertising ever created. #AI #OpenAI #ads

Ads are coming to AI. But not to Anthropic's Claude. This is a very funny Super Bowl ad. 🔥🔥🔥OpenAI🔥🔥🔥 #AI #Claude #Anthropic #SuperBowl

Not enough jams welcome AI development, so we made our own! 😅👍 itch.io/jam/ai-brows... Devs will have 2 weeks to make a game using AI tools. Any engine is fine, as long as it runs in the browser. Join if you dare! 🚀 #AIGameJam

Opus 4.6 is out from @anthropic.com and I'm still getting over how good 4.5 is! Always love @emollick.bsky.social's academic memes! This one is bananas. 👏 #Claude #AI #Opus #Anthropic

AI tools to help children (and adults) make games absolutely makes sense. AI-enabled Roblox is going to make it easier for millions of kids to realize their ideas. Fantastic! www.gamesindustry.biz/roblox-debut... #AI #gamedev #gamedesign

Seriously I'm glad I was raised in the 80's and can sustain myself indefinitely on irony. @sfwa.org ruled that there can be no AI or LLMs used at any point in the writing process for stories submitted for the sci-fi Nebula Awards. At least they support science in fiction? #AI #nebula #scifi

Happy Groundhog Day! Again!

I've rarely seen anything that illustrates how profoundly investors misunderstand AI and games. It's cool, but Google's Genie is as far away from creating video games as it is from writing and directing a blockbuster movie. www.theverge.com/games/871348... #genie #google #videogames #AI #gamedev

A fantastic new publication "Game Poems Magazine" featuring artistic lightning fast playable mini-games. First issue is out! #art #games

It’s inevitable that AI is going to be used in almost all game production pipelines. Also inevitable that the x100 boost is based in hype, not reality. But x2 or even x0.5 is probably a good enough reason to use it for most studios. #AI #gamedev

I think about this picture I took of the Queen’s Gambit board game in 2022 a lot.

Embark Studios CEO Patrick Söderlund defends the use of AI in ARC Raiders and urges players to "step back" and understand how it can help developers. bit.ly/3N8NjEj

If I vibe-code a piece of software I learn a lot more about coding than someone who just installs and uses the code. Same with art, writing, music, or anything else. Creating is better than not creating IMHO. AI or not. 🤷‍♂️ #AI

Just surfacing this reply that turned into a little thread on how to restructure AAA studios. Let me know what you think. Yeah, I just saved the gaming industry. You're so welcome everyone! 🦸‍♂️🏆🥇 #gamedev #gamedesign

It’s clear that any mobile slop shop can pop out a f2p mobile game in a week or less. Because they do. If they had good game designers each game could be a lottery ticket. It’s not their technical ability that’s lacking; it’s their design ability. #gamedev #gamedesign

If I ran a AAA studio I would already be restructuring to hire indie game designers and exploring how to make under $15 “indie games” #gamedev #gamedesign

A new way to classify video games! Enter the Hushrasher system. #videogames

Players hate tutorials. But they also hate playing like crap and not knowing what to do. Solution?

Absolute garbage decision from @indiegameawards.gg. If this is the hill they want to die on, let 'em. Sandfall Interactive doesn't need an award when they have the love and gratitude of their players. This kind of histrionic gatekeeping is thankfully irrelevant. #AI #gamedev

Robotopia 🤖 is a video game with actual generative AI game play. Not just gen AI in the production but in the core game loop. I've been following this one for a while and I'm psyched! They have a new site so head on over and sign up for the Alpha 🤖 #videogame #genAI #gamedev

Not sure it's the "first" but gen AI in game production is here to stay. It's not going away. #gamedev #AI

All these apps are feeling the same. I can’t even tell which social media app I’m scrolling in half the time.

Apparently, you can't make linen with Gemini. It's not safe. #AI #gemini

This year, spending in the US had "the worst November in 30 years". Due to tariffs and other factors, the price of dedicated gaming devices probably will not be coming down. Bad news in this period of economic downturn. #videogames #xbox #playstation #hardware

The Game Awards 2025 is over! How did your games do? Every time the candidates are announced you can hear by the applause which is the fan favorite! #videogames #gameawards2025

Keeping up on what's happening with these media buyouts is like watching some kind of kaiju battle going on in a major city. "Ahhh... Ellison and Saudia Arabia just defeated Netflix and bought WB. Not much we can do about it. Hope they don't kill my favorite games. 🫣"