Snow Sled 'Tomb Raider II' PlayStation

Two days shy of my Amaversary, I join my dev brethren in the end of this Amazon Games chapter. What an honor to work with friends that are also colleagues I admire, make some games, & do research that mattered. 15+ yrs in games/tech & ready for the Next Thing! 🧵 www.linkedin.com/in/drlaurale...

Hey folks. I was impacted by the layoffs at Amazon today. If you or someone you know is in need of a UX Researcher with multiple years of experience leading or supporting research initiatives, games or otherwise, please DM me or reach out to me on LinkedIIn. www.linkedin.com/in/cdwheelock

I got you baby, I didn't see shit 🫣

Picard: computer, energize ChatGPT: energizing, sir Picard: we are still here ChatGPT: My apologies, you are right. I thought you energized but you are still here. You are energized now. Picard: Nope, still standing here. ChatGPT: Ah, I see the issue now. Energizing now.

Happy 64th birthday to the man who makes us want to believe, Fox Mulder. How do you think he and Scully are celebrating? Sweet potato pie? #TheXFiles

My user research friends can probably relate

Announcing a game is a huge milestone for folks in the gaming industry and I am hyped that we've announced March of Giants today! See our announcement here: www.amazongames.com/en-us/news/a... Sign up for our upcoming Alpha here: playmog.games/requestMOGac...

Learn more and request access for the upcoming Closed Alpha at MarchOfGiants.com

What have I been working on for the past couple years, besides comics? Alongside @jacksonlanzing.bsky.social and @collinkelly.bsky.social, I've been a writer on a brand new free-to-play AAA game from the team that brought you Rainbow Six: Siege. Get ready for MARCH OF GIANTS!

The f*&%ing library.

my boss: hey nice job! my brain: you cannot compliment me in a way that matters

"Wow, I'm so stressed out today. I wonder why. My job is neat." : realizes I've been listening to non-stop enemy aggro music in my headset for 5 hours in this playtest : "oh"

This is the THIRD paper I've seen in the last year that uses people's data in a way that is deeply ethically problematic. If games scholars keep doing this it is going to seriously harm everyone's ability to do research with online gaming communities as they start closing off to scientists.

Another week, another research ethics controversy. TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized. But let's unpack this one... 🧵 www.404media.co/researchers-...

"Hey babe, get a load of this [I DON'T REALIZE WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY IS SO STUPID] stupid humanities thing" (enter computer scientist that you wouldn't expect to know a lot about humanities things) 👨‍🏫: that's a post-modern theory of yap yap important to yap theory Kuhn yap Popper yap me: ...oh

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Was watching Bill Nye with my son yesterday—the kind of science education creativity and spirit that's currently being extinguished. Credits hit hard when the NSF logo came up.

____________________ | | | SIN ISN’T REAL. | | | | YOU ARE GOOD. | | | |___________________| | | (\__/) | | (•ㅅ•) | | / > | |

So my girlfriend is an amazing stop motion animator, and she recently did a medieval cat themed bumper for Adult Swim! Sharing it here because she only has Instagram and I think everyone needs to see her animations. She's so freaking talented, y'alls. PLEASE go follow her!

It’s so cool how fast this technology has improved and continues to improve our lives every day 🥰 @kcrw.com

all academics hit a point where you must make the difficult decision to title your paper either - TOWARDS ... [an understanding of yap yap] OR - BEYOND ... [whatever you're doing and not what I'm doing] when, inevitably, you've committed both sins you become a Dean or a husk, who's to say really

It took a lifetime of academia to instill and only 1.5 years out to finally stop thinking of the year in semesters. I’ve never felt more truly at peace. The year is mine to fritter away without boundaries! Corporate America saved one soul today. 🥳

My pet gar that I donated to Shedd Aquarium would recognize me and swim over to say hi when I visited her exhibit ❤️🐠 A rare hybrid gar, I raised her since she was 2 inches long, and had to re-home her when I moved to Chicago. I was happy I could visit her in her new home! TO BE CONTINUED…

The thing about yapping unknowingly on a hot mic in front of leadership is, if this had happened earlier in my career I’d be devastated — but it didn't, so now everyone knows how I feel about Bayesian vs frequentist statistics uncertainty and if that isn't career goals, I don't know what is! 😌

Empezando por fin este clásico.

Pasteur's Quadrant drives US research Traditional academia = Bohr Industry = Edison National labs/applied academia = Pasteur Real societal impact is Pasteur's quad Basic research (how disease works) inspired by need (prevent death) = innovation (vaccine) We're losing a better future for all

"We believe, however, that given the high societal importance of this topic, it was crucial to conduct a study of this kind, even if it meant disobeying the rules." - authors If you ever find yourself using a utilitarian justification for your ethics, stop...drop...and GTFO of research tysm bb 😘

This experiment is a textbook example of "Just because we can doesn't mean we should" research. Doing this without community consent and buy-in is wildly inappropriate. Not only does it risk harming respondents, it also poisons the well for other, more serious, researchers. Absolutely unacceptable.

Former ethics professor here! The 1st formulation of Kant’s Categorical Imperative has your eyes glazing over already but this is a fantastic example of Kant's divining morality from logic tldr producing a paradox like this means the action (cheating) is NOT moral so basically spiritual death 🫠

Grandpa was an astrophysicist. Up at 5am, pocket protector on, off to campus to build radio telescopes for NASA and UF, sketched antenna diagrams on napkins at dinner, then stayed up fixing neighbors’ TVs/radios. For free. Grandma: he’s tinkering again 🤷🏻‍♀️ Love on the spectrum, y’all.

And HELLO #fdg25 and welcome everyone in Graz at @tugraz :-) Details: fdg2025.com#fdg25#fdg25

My PhD student @letian-wang.bsky.social hitting the stage at #fdg25 to present his work on the use of live companion apps of #eSports games.

Travelling to Austria for #FDG ✈️ starting in Vienna then Graz! I’m presenting as part of the Doctoral Consortium showcasing my research to date alongside a poster 📰 Excited to chat games, share ideas & connect with like minded folks! #FDG2025 #Games #gamesresearch #HCI #gamestudies #PhD #PhDlife

PANIC MODE activated.. this is the week that we welcome soooo many fantastic international games researchers in Austria for #fdg2025... so.. HELLO and WELCOME everyone I am SO excited and nervous :-) Details: fdg2025.com #fdg25

The keynote on 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 at the 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 will be delivered by @jorisdormans.bsky.social 🗓️ Tuesday, April 15 at 10:30 (CEST) 📍 University of Vienna, #FDG2025 🔗 Full program: livegamedesignworkshop.github.io #GameDesign #GameDev #IndieDev #Roguelite #PCG

My research news - I am excited to announce that my paper (co-authored w/ @wallnergue.bsky.social and Claire Dormann) on player perception of using #esports live companion apps is accepted at #FDG2025. My presentation is on April 16, in the afternoon game analytics session at TU Graz. Stay tuned!

Like any good former museum professional, everything is tacked down with earthquake putty. Except this bookend...which is now freshly tacked down with earthquake putty. 😌

Let's go, Jackets! 🐝 This is a fantastic example of the kind of exciting innovations that come from transdisciplinary technology research when you involve a variety of expertise in science and engineering! Proud to have been part of this team from my time back at Tech. 🐬Happy dolphin day!🐬

good. finally the middle-aged cinephiles going to evening shows of Minecraft can watch in peace.

Hey it's that ethics professor you had that time! Remember in class we learned that a core tenant of Social Contract Theory is that it is upheld and participated in by ✨ RATIONAL AGENTS ✨ meaning that you need not tolerate or collaborate with anyone NOT upholding the social contract! A+, y'all!

being a game dev is knowing sometimes 10/10 is too much but 11/10 is just right

gonna tell kids I fought in the Clone wars:

Everything going great on the Nintendo Switch subreddit.

currently entering my whatever-this-is era

This day in 2013, junior faculty me stumbled into a surprise meeting with ATL hip hop icons (neat!), an NDA printed in Comic Sans (oh no), & lots of questions about "registering a Twitter hashtag" for an interactive music festival for ~$200k I registered the hell outta that hashtag #softmoneyqueen

TODAY: @zenimaxworkers.bsky.social members have authorized a strike. "If Microsoft and ZeniMax continue to demonstrate at the bargaining table that they’re unwilling to pay us fair wages for the value our labor provides to our games, we’ll be showing them just how valuable our labor is.”

My go-to April Fool's office prank makes me feel so ancient but here it is for any of you living in last century 1. Put a paperclip on the photocopy machine glass 2. Make lots of copies 3. Copies now have 1 paperclip printed on them 4. Feed those puppies back in to the fresh paper slot 5. Run

I don my headset, hop on a call, and eagerly await which producer will grace my ears will it be... the air traffic controller? the WWE announcer? the completely over it, haunted taskmaster? I love them all and if they don't represent the three moods of game development, I don't know what does