last year, i remember thinking "yeah, things are different from last year when not that many people used genai, and now its commonplace" these days if i see someone on a laptop its like a 40% chance chatgpt is open next year am i gonna be like 'dammmn nobody used genai in 2025' yet again

finally settled in back at home after aiide i've deleted and rewrote my thoughts on aiide probably a hundred times at this point aiide was a life-changing experience for me. i'm positive that, as i begin my journey into academia, this conference will remain a formative memory forever.

New Paper: Game Design is Generative Design. Designing a procedural generator and designing a game share a lot of skills, problems and philosophies, even if we think of them as distinct. I try to connect them here, for good! Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...

New Paper: Pixie: Code-Level Mechanic Generation for Game Designers. How do you connect automatic game design to real games? Pixie is a mechanic generation system for Unity games, as an example framework for how to build AGD systems into real game platforms. Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...

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

yet another day goes by and i continue to be swindled by the rl hype train this talk was so fun, schaefer is simply an amazing amazing speaker and has so much energy and charisma to his words

Absolutely delighted by this last #aiide keynote by Jonathan Schaefer. It’s about the history of computer chess but you may know him as the guy who “solved” Checkers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonatha...

one day left for aiide. looking forward to this last one! the last couple days were so sick, ill probably make a post with my feelings at the end of things

wordle but for game mechanics when

this talk was very good and my favourite part about it was definitely the "i spent 10 minutes finding the cohost font someone please help me with time management" comment hidden in one of the slides. such a relatable struggle

Once again live posting AIIDE 2025 Day 2!

Watching a NES running a neural network to detect hand drawn images LIVE. EXAG undefeated. #AIIDE25

and it's running live??????? and inference only takes a couple seconds!!!!!???? this is wild

I was so so happy to give an invited talk today at EXAG, a workshop I co-founded over ten years ago! It was quite a personal talk about how research communities grow and change (and die sometimes), what generative AI means for our community today, and the value of weird, pointless research.

Starting off Day 2 of EXAG with Mike Cook's @mtrc.bsky.social amazingly titled keynote 'Being Weird at the End of the World'. Really looking forward to this talk!

exag day 1 went very well. i #slayed with my new hair colour but i am realising that my profile picture no longer matches my appearance... perhap it is time for a new commission also i loved all the presentations, and it was so hype to meet so many new peeps! im hyped for the rest of this week :3

We're back with an EXAG speculative game jam! We do be speculating (I am not a fan of the technologies we have been tasked with discussing, but I liked the idea of the jam!) Our group came up with a game dev simulator type game, except you're an evil AI company

by the way, for any oomfies that dont know about my research work that are confused why im suddenly tweeting about ai please understand i'm referring to ai as in smash cpus (or like, level generation), not as in chatgpt. yes. it is very confusing that they use the same term. i do not support genai.

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

aiide

Excited to be welcoming everyone to #AIIDE25 Here at the University of Alberta!

i think that new superman movie caused this

tabletop roleplaying games

its really amusing to compare the complete marketing difference of sdr2 and 2x2, where sdr2 took leverage of the sleepy gamer gf to try to appeal, 2x2 knows the full truth that to danganronpa fans the true thirst trap is Nagito Komaeda

komaeda ..... oohhhh

for some uncomprehensible reason i have this pair of FILA underwear and everytime i read the logo i just think it says KILAFLOW idk

realistically speaking if it wasnt absa blood would swamp through the streets in rivers so this outcome makes a lot of sense

i lived wenchss

The Vocaless Kickstarter is now LIVE! Let's hope this second attempt goes better than the first time! Please spread the word and help us reach our goal! There's a new demo also available with tons of new content! Link to the campaign: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sle... #indiegame #gamedev

bro you have to click the VIDEO button to submit GIFS... which are OTHERWISE NATIVELY SUPPORTEd... theres even a GIF button..... AND THE GIF BUTTON POSTS IMBEDDED MP4s................... hiding away in shame

hello all, i made a free game! factoroom is a short, cozy automation game where, after escaping from medically induced hopelessness, you're tasked with building up your room to make enough money to free yourself from the shackles of debt i was the lead designer! link in replies

shout out to monkeys

i love the way hodan is portrayed lol

the thing they dont be telling you is that ani becoming canon is yet another victory for ravyn. we take those

my flight. got delayed. again. I am Leaving At Midnight. I will be at home when the sun is coming up.

3 hours in lax im not home until 2am fuck my stupid chungus life

layover in lax. again. wish me luck im gonna die

monkey :)

Here is my full victory animation for Olympia Victory animation! :D Shout out to @beezii.bsky.social for storyboarding and everyone at Aether Studio who has given me feedback!

ive had nothing to do at night this gens... no homies inviting me to get hopelessly drunk until 4am.... #bringbackworkshop

im not exagerating when i say sonic 3 is my favourite movie. wow (watched it in theatres today for my bday!)

Thinking about FFX Columbo

does anyone else feel legit cold when in the snow level in video games

sorta did my new years resolution this year tbh, depending on how u think abt it. no idea what my 2025 one will be. this year had So many extremely ecstatics, i was practically manic. i changed medication dosages this year as well, so, that is partly responsible for it.

halloween candy

dude why are ppl on twitter against GAY MARRIAGE . what in the caveman fuck is this. i thought we figured this shit out like twenty years ago. i get having ue fears abt new age lgbtq shit but.... GAY MARRIAGE? bro ur in the STONE AGE

🔥Rivals of Aether II is out now on Steam! Play as 10 different characters in intense platform fighter battles. Plus - new events, new characters, and more will be coming soon and coming often! So tell me - what is a Rival? store.steampowered.com/app/2217000/...

@sakamoto3.bsky.social @etharax.bsky.social @jianzen.bsky.social ur gay

i truly could only be in a poly relationship if i was the protagonist