Wargame Development's Autumn Virtual Gathering on-line conference is Sat 25th October. Details in the flyer. I'll be presenting ... twice!

Following on from The Military Metaverse, Andy Fawkes and I have just had a paper published in Springer Nature's AI & Society on Digital Human Twins and the Military Metaverse: Opportunities and Challenges. Behind the Springer paywall but a preview is available. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

My GUWS presentation on Wargaming and the Just War is now up on YouTube - youtu.be/ajnFnh1Pn-E #wargaming #justwar

Just War Theory and Artificial Intelligence has just been published by Routledge and includes my chapter on Wargaming and Just War Theory www.routledge.com/Just-War-The... - which will form the basis of my GUWS presentation next week - www.eventbrite.com/e/wargaming-... #wargaming #justwar

Quick follow-up to yesterday's post on synthetic media wraps - this one looking at the broader application of conversational AI to #wargaming open.substack.com/pub/urbanwar...

Using ChatGPT to do in a few minutes what took a whole project to do a few years ago! Generating a turn by turn synthetic media wrap for your manual wargame using ChatGPT or similar. open.substack.com/pub/urbanwar... #wargaming #chatgpt

Great time on Monday talking AI chatbots at the launch event at The Ned in London for Sensay's latest Hackathon. More details of the Hackathon at dorahacks.io/hackathon/se... #ai #chatbots

My GUWS talk on Wargaming and the Just War is coming up soon, 19 Aug 5pm BST. Sign up at www.eventbrite.com/e/wargaming-... #wargaming

On the other hand City&CEMA, whilst improving, still has a long way to go. Debating 3 possible future options - further refine, restart from scratch or build my Company game and see if that gives me new inspiration to build back up to Bn/Bde. #wargaming

Good reception for OPUC/Tooru's Fire at COW over the weekend. Lots of useful comments to refine it further. Aiming to have PnP/TTS version out by end Aug. #wargaming

It must be Kickstarter fulfilment day today - 2 new RPGs arrived in the post - Sentience (you play abandoned sentient bots) and Space:1999!

I've just launched an AI Chatbot based on my knowledge of, and research into urban wargaming. Have a chat with it & see if knows more than I know (or can remember). Also acts as a rules guide for my games. Please let me know of any major fails! #wargaming taunoyen.com/virtualurban...

The Public Beta of my beer-and-pretzels card game of urban combat is now out on print'n'play, Tabletop Simulator & playable Powerpoint. Any feedback, especially on rule and instruction clarity greatly appreciated. Video intro and how to play also available. taunoyen.com/games/rubble... #wargaming

TTS version of Rubble Town coming along nicely. Mastered custom card decks and think will give players options of tiles, standees or 3D models (probably WW2 unfortunately) for their pieces #wargaming

UK Defence review promises to make the British Army “10 times more lethal", for no significant increase in manpower. Time to update the counter mix......

Good number of people trying out my MR demo this pm at Kings Wargaming Week, most took to it pretty naturally. In response to a comment on a neighbouring naval wargame I quickly put a prototype ASW space together in ShapesXR - so depth is just a natural part of the experience. #wargaming #metaverse

Just upgraded the buildings for UrbanMR demo - the nice thing is they are scans of the PDF buildings I use in 6mm

Think I've got my Mixed Reality wargaming demo sorted ready for the session on Wednesday at King's Wargaming Week. Drop by in Room BH(SE)2.07 1330-1700 if you want to give it a try!

BBC Local News picked up on the Wolverhampton project - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #metaverse #virtualreality #education

Wargames Atlantic about to start doing figures for 2300AD. Nice, but wonder if Traveller will be next? wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/a...

Cracking on with the playtesting for Tooru’s Fire, think it’s beginning to come together nicely. Certainly a lot of people fleeing the fighting!

Nice bit of PR on a project I'm currently helping deliver at Wolverhampton University, some great builds by the students, who took to the VR authoring/building app with only a few hours training from me. www.wlv.ac.uk/news-and-eve... #virtualreality #metaverse

The book cover for Just War Theory and Artificial Intelligence has just been unveiled. The book, publishing 4Q25 I expect, has my chapter on Wargaming and the Just War, which I'll be previewing in the GUWS wargaming lecture series on 19th August - sign up at www.eventbrite.com/e/wargaming-...

Hard copies have arrived! More info at metaverseseries.blogspot.com/p/the-milita... #metaverse

Our Military Metaverse microworld is now open, just use your browser to go to framevr.io/militarymeta.... Just walk around the world and learn more about the book. It pings me when people enter so don't be surprised if I drop by to say hi (although feel free to ignore me!) #metaverse

The build is finished for our Military Metaverse microverse. Join us for a guided tour during our virtual book launch tomorrow. Tickets still available at www.eventbrite.com/e/the-milita...

Thanks to @evandalessandro.bsky.social I managed to test TUC on TTS last night. All worked very well I think. Just a few tweaks & then aim to release next week. Game ended in Red culminating before taking the city or destroying Blue will. Civ losses & structural damage high, mostly caused by Blue.

My May 2025 PhD Newsletter is now available - a summary of all the various things I've produced and am currently working on for my PhD in Wargaming Urban Conflict - plus some related projects. Enjoy! taunoyen.com/wiki/lib/exe... #wargaming

The Military Metaverse is published today! Details at metaverseseries.blogspot.com/p/the-milita.... Sign up to our virtual launch on 7th May at www.eventbrite.com/e/the-milita.... Available from Amazon or Routledge as hardcopy or eBook, 20% discount at Routledge with the code 25AFLY1 #metaverse

Nice coverage in MS&T on our new book on the Military Metaverse which is published tomorrow! www.halldale.com/defence/expe... #metaverse

I just backed Hard Wired Island: Reprint on @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/ett...

Interviewed about my work on conversational AI on Sensay’s weekly Community Call. Good chat with Dan for 30 mins plus in a variety of relevant topics #AI #chatbots www.youtube.com/live/bBQFvUn...

Got the TTS mod for The Urban Calculus built. Just need to get it checked out and then work out how to publish it!

I'm pleased to announce that The Urban Calculus is now finally available as print'n'play and as a playable Powerpoint. TTS version to follow. Download files and links to introductory videos at taunoyen.com/wiki/doku.ph.... Keen to get formal feedback on plays for my PhD! Any questions just ask.

Military Metaverse virtual book launch in 2 weeks - sign up at www.eventbrite.com/e/the-milita.... Now on pre-order at Amazon and Routledge (use 25AFLY1 at Routledge for 20% discount!) - metaverseseries.blogspot.com/p/the-milita...

Two contrasting purchases from eBay this week for the PhD

Managed to get the second paper out today - analysing over 1100 items of evidence from multiple comparative urban battle studies to produce an evidence-based list and schematic of the elements of urban conflict. Paper at taunoyen.com/wiki/lib/exe... #wargaming #urbanwarfare

First of hopefully two Research Notes this week, this one just formalising a bit the analysis I released a couple of months ago on the most "informative" urban battles. The main one, looking at the main elements of urban conflict, should be out tomorrow. taunoyen.com/wiki/lib/exe...

Just arrived- Seb Bae's new version/scenario of Littoral Commander.

I just backed Traveller RPG: The Singularity Campaign on Kickstarter #gdwtraveller www.kickstarter.com/projects/jta...

Proud to see that the Urban Operations book I contributed a chapter to on the wargames of the Battle of Hue has been picked up for the Association of the United States Army's elite book program. www.einpresswire.com/article/7907... #wargaming

The extended abstract and presentation from our IT2EC presentation on the POBL synthetic information wrap system we did under a DASA project for UK MOD are now up on the Wargaming page of my Daden website - www.daden.co.uk/wargaming.html

Paxsims has picked up on my Matrix Game Simulation video - paxsims.wordpress.com/2025/04/05/a... #wargaming #ai

Invites now open for the virtual launch of The Military Metaverse, in the #metaverse! Open house 1200-1900 BST on 7th May 2025, guided tours at 1300 and 1700. Free sign up at www.eventbrite.com/e/the-milita.... URL to follow nearer the date, but will be on the framevr.io virtual world platform.

Also out today, the video of my Matrix Game Simulation presentation at VCOW in February. Does MGS fill the missing quadrant of free/rigid "wargames" vs humans/AI, and what is GANINT? www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZKw... #wargaming #ai

My initial experiences with using Ollama and local LLMs for Matrix Game Simulation is up on Substack at urbanwargamer.substack.com/p/matrix-gam... #wargaming #ai #ollama

Had some good follow up chats after my and Dan’s presentation on POBL on the first day of #ITEC2025

Thought provoking session from Richard Boyd at #ITEC2025, and a conclusion I’d pretty much agree with - “Ultimately knowledge graphs, combined with LLMs and a digital twin simulation of the world will result in AGI”

Just reached 1000 items in my urban characteristics evidence base, so time to post the work in progress. 125 characteristics mapped from 43 urban battles. Heatmap shows often each characteristic is mentioned in comparative studies including that battle. taunoyen.com/wiki/lib/exe...

Really good GUWS presentation from Steve Dorton on Wargaming for the Social and Cognitive Sciences, although also about applying cognitive sciences to wargaming - even mentions shared mental models in a wargaming context www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDxj... #wargaming #sharedmentalmodels