This is a really interesting report with a somewhat misleading title. Come along as I ramble about AI adoption and this report🧵 Also, in case anyone was wondering you can't just "slap some AI on it" and expect revolutionary change. It just doesn't work like that.

@vherve.bsky.social, @christophsalge.bsky.social, and I have a new paper preprint out!

The singularity is awesome

Tech Guy: I have attained immortality! Me: Wow, you figured out how to stop aging? Tech Guy: No, I trained an AI on my emails to create a perfect copy of my personality. Then I uploaded it into a robot dog with M3GAN’s face. It will live forever Robot: As a businessman I often schedule meetings

For the last year I've had the privilege of working with the Kennesaw State University (@kennesawstate.bsky.social‬) Game Studio, and now our first student-developed game is finally ready for release on Steam. Presenting Chiba, probably the cutest Sokoban-style game on the market!

Dr Fiesler is an actual ethicist and has a more informed take than mine.

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.

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.

Turns out some of my former students decided to form a games studio around a project they started in one of my classes. Really happy to see that they kept working on it. It's a good game and y'all should check it out!

i would simply put the ai farms in antarctica and pipe the melted fresh water to the parched equatorial climes

we’re hiring a historian! this is a really interesting opportunity for anyone considering alt-ac possibilities

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Helpful to remember that computers got superhuman in chess 40 years ago and it's still as popular as ever. Apply to math, writing, games, etc. Computers can't take away joy and sometimes they enhance it

This is pure genius.

I remember when you could just buy a computer program like Microsoft Word or Photoshop and just have it on your computer forever without having to pay monthly or yearly. What a time that was

I think we're starting to butt up against what @codingcrafter.bsky.social & Jim Whitehead call the expressive range. Basically, we're starting to see sameness appear in the output. It took longer because these LLMs are so powerful, but that expressive limit is still there. We've just hidden it.

Well deserved!

Caves of Qud is up there with Dwarf Fortress as the most innovative games for PCG and generative AI. Happy to see it hit 1.0!

Treating game development as an engineering challenge, rather than a player experience challenge. Putting people infront of things, and iterating, is essential to intentional design.

🎶 To the pirates of Uzbekistan, from Aral Sea to Samarkand, raise a tankard to the sky and say, Uzbekistan is a pirate land. 🎵

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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Overleaf is down so I am forced to comprehend the horrors

Fundamentally this boils down to the importance of game design. Just shoving tech into a game isn't going to meaningfully improve the player experience. AI really is no exception.

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

This is a tricky one. The publishing industry is broken, but I'm not entirely convinced that Spines is going to change that in any meaningful way. This project seems more like an AI-powered vanity press than an actual tool set that would help authors. 🧵 where I rant about AI support tools.

Although it's hard to beat 1995-1997 there were some pretty damn good games released this year. Satisfactory, Space Marine 2, and Helldivers 2 come to mind. We also saw a new edition of DnD, and the MTG Foundations set is a great entry point into that game.

I do really appreciate Valve's new rules here. If you're not ready to commit to what you will provide in a Season Pass - don't offer a Season Pass. Players are buyers, not investors. partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/se...

I want to add The Internet Archive to this hill, and then I'm going to die on it.

Cory Doctorow's concept of "enshittification" comes to mind here. We had a good thing going with the old Internet, but it got monetized to death.

Games are reasonable stepping stones as testbeds for AI progress. NetHack and text adventure games hit on modern AI weaknesses. I literally just gave a talk on why we should take Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games seriously as AI challenges.

This comes up a lot in my talks this past year. The more you understand generative AI, you can not only begin to see the genuinely interesting things it can do, but also be enraged at how people exploit its capabilities through IP theft and shoddy productising. Be informed, and be angry!

🧵about this really cool project! The KinOS team doesn't seem to have gotten to the actual writing phase yet, but the current system has a lot of potential. Ambitious projects like this are fantastic for pushing the boundaries of what AI can do, but they're limited by the current capabilities of AI.

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