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. 🫣"

And counter-attack! Ellison backed by Saudi Arabia swoop in for the kill. #netflix #paramount #WB

Netflix isn't just securing IP in the new Warner Bros acquisition. There are the games. So many games. #games #videogames #Netflix #WB

Great write up! Excited to see what Meaning Machine is cooking up! Wrote an article a couple years ago that describes a little about the process of cross examining an LLM witness with open source code. It's weirdly both easier and harder now. medium.com/curiouserins... #AI #gamedev

Tl;dr it’s the NEX. And it plays by motion sensor. No controllers. Big licenses like NHL and Bluey. Let’s kids jump around and be active. Price point is half of the Switch. Nice. #videogames #nex #console

I love a good irl ARG mystery! #ARG #gameawards

OMFG NO! Not only are AIs poised to become powerful manipulation technologies in their own right, but peppering them with ads? Lord! #AI #advertising #OpenAI

People are getting laid off and they're not getting hired again. No one is panicking yet, but give it a few months. These are lead indicators that the economy is about to crash. If you are a gaming company get ahead of it. If this continues, it's about affordability for the foreseeable future. 👇

These 30+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (December 1-5). (Repost)

Being anti-anti-AI on Bluesky (never mind pro-AI) is hilarious. I'm on soooo many block lists I think I blocked myself! 🤷‍♂️ #AI #bluesky

NGL. I've been using Steam a lot less now that I have Gamepass and Playstation Plus. I've played more games and I've saved more money. But they keep pumping the price. 🤑 If MS and PS get greedy, I'll go back to sales on Steam. #steam #gamepass #playstation

This is the saddest thing ever. “…more than a million users talking to the chatbot about suicide every week.” I don’t think it’s fair to assume that a tech company can handle what is very clearly a societal nightmare. #AI #OpenAI #mentalHealth