Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️
@aaronlangille.bsky.social
he/him | Game design prof🏅 | Game Designer 🕹️ | Author: A Gamer's Introduction to C# (out now), A Gamer's Introduction to MonoGame (coming soon) linktr.ee/aaronlangille
A tiny snippet of user-generated text as short as 13 words long is often enough to manipulate the AI agents that power tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI search, new research shows. www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
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Doctors 25% more likely to miss a diagnosis on a patient within 3 months after Ai is implemented. The results indicate Ai has an immediate negative effect on professionals skillsets vs prolonged reliance. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
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Okay. An important moment for us, if you’ll indulge me with a repost. It’s time to start the very first whisper of noise about our next game. It’s a mailing list! But it’s a mailing list that I’m hoping will be a bit different than what you’re used to. mailchi.mp/bithellgames...
Bithell Games Mailing List
Sign up to receive future details on the next game from Bithell, Short Story Prologue and Alpha Testing
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Currently working on an ulcer in the exact shape of the #bluejays logo.
Mina the Hollower is our biggest game yet! 🐭🕯️ 20-30 hours. Over 1,200 handcrafted screens. 17 areas. 28 bosses. 60 Trinkets. 5 weapons. 14 Sidearms. So many bones! We’re breaking down the numbers behind Tenebrous Isle! 🎮
Trying really hard to keep that 2025 #BlueJays positivity going right now.
this feels like the crux of things, and I don't see it highlighted enough: being creative is fun! i want a machine that does my laundry so i can focus more on making art, not the other way around!!
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4mo ago“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”
All the developers 404 Media talked to were excited to try using LLMs at work at first, or were at least curious about them. Their feelings about the tools, based on their personal experience, are now overwhelmingly negative. AI is rotting their brains www.404media.co/software-dev...
Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
“It's making me dumber for sure.”
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The best way to make a successful game remains: make 10 games
One of the (many, many) things I resent about "AI" is the implication that videogames are wanting for some kind of technological revolution Artistically, videogames are doing so well imo. What game devs actually need is: affordable rent, stable employment, free education, etc.
Amberspire is out TOMORROW, on Steam, for PC Mac and Steam Deck. It's a science fantasy city builder with increasingly abstract dice, esoteric and powerful factions, and an ecology atop a mausoleum moon.
Amberspire on Steam
A science fantasy dice city builder. Construct buildings, manage resources, and build in harmony with an alien ecology. Beneath the glow of a gas giant, Amberspire will grow and prosper into a flouris...
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ASU's new AI tool cannibalizes nuanced, thoughtful faculty lectures into sound bites and chatbot junk text: www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...
University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop
ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
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Just released a new explosions assets pack ansimuz.itch.io/explosion-pa... #pixelart for #gamedev
Not everything that breaks is technically the fault of vibe coding but the kind of culture that would foster vibe coding is the kind that produces a lot of shit that breaks.
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay
I've wished for Arab-made games about Arab mythology for so long, and despite assisting on the project I still can't believe there's one swinging for the fences this hard. House of Hikmah is something very needed in a time where the world would rather erase us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZTu...
Official Launch Trailer for The House of Hikmah | Arrives April 8th, 2026
YouTube video by Lunacy Studios
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Victoria Kannen@victoriakannen.bsky.social · 5mo ago📚 Call for Chapter Proposals! ✨ (Please share! 🤍 ) Virtual Identities and Digital Culture, 2nd Edition Eds: Victoria Kannen & Aaron Langille Interested in chapters on: -2SLGBTQIA+ online identities -AI slop; AI hype; positive AI -Emerging VR -DEI in digital spaces #CFP #writing #teaching #learning
Not too long ago, I wrote a pair of books aimed at people who want to learn how to code!! IMHO, they are fun, accessible, and full of video game examples. If you're a teacher looking for intro texts for your coding or game design students, check them out!? 🕹️⚔️🚀💻 @monogame.net #bookSky
I was asked to talk about DLSS5, but then I got angry about DLSS5, and so that's what in this @kotaku.com article. kotaku.com/we-spoke-to-...
We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?'
One game developer told Kotaku that after seeing DLSS 5, 'it feels like there is no future for me' in the video game industry
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Using AI for your art references not only gives you a skewed & inaccurate view of the world, it also puts resource providers like myself & all these awesome people out of work! Using REAL photo references is what levels up your art AND supports the stock/resource community! ❤️💪
