Would you trust our doctor girl? Would she also trust you? 🤔 You'll meet her soon! Game Name:1001 Nights Available on Steam. #indiegame #steam #pixelart
CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan
@cheesetalk.bsky.social
Yuqian (Uchan) Sun | AI research artist (PhDing) | Artistic AI chatbot dev since 2018 Working on story-crafting #indiegame “1001 Nights” Steam demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2782660/1001_Nights_Demo/ Personal website: https://fakecheese.me
Our indie game is academically validated now- “1001 Nights” just hit 101 citations! (it’s based on a paper about our dev process & experience) #IndieGameDev #IndieGame #GameDev #GameStudies #AcademicTwitter #Research #BehindTheScenes
Next up @cheesetalk.bsky.social who couldn’t enter the US in person; showing her 1001 Nights experimental game which uses a LLM King Shahyrar to evaluate the Sheherazade character’s stories. Talking about how vibe coding has affected her collaborative process with coders & artists
Tthe only moment of FOMO I had this week of not being at GDC was this panel: absolute stars talking about teaching about gen AI - @alt254.bsky.social @chouxsalad.bsky.social @n-w-f.bsky.social @codingcrafter.bsky.social @recardona.bsky.social @cheesetalk.bsky.social @flantz.bsky.social
Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美@halfrobot.com · 5mo agoI have at times live-posted GDC sessions and now I’ve picked “Teaching Games with Games” where @alt254.bsky.social & @chouxsalad.bsky.social have designated this year’s 4-person panel topic as “teaching students about generative AI” without doing what S.B. describes as “cop shit” (policing AI usage)
AI Nüshu has been nominated for the Prix Ars Electronica Digital Humanity Award 🥰 #arselectronica One last item ticked off my art wishlist before 30. This project lets AI learn from Chinese women — and invent their own secret language. calls.ars.electronica.art/2025/prix/wi... #arselectronica
Wow Springer mentioned our chapter! @gua-le-ni.com
Springer@springer.springernature.com · 12mo ago'Between Puppet and Actor: Reframing Authorship in This Age of AI Agents', by Yuqian Sun and Stefano Gualeni, examines the conceptual tensions in understanding #AI agents’ role in creative processes, particularly focusing on Large Language Models. bit.ly/4fGwN8U #BookSky
✨Check our book chapter!
Stefano Gualeni@gua-le-ni.com · last yr."Between Puppet and Actor: Reframing Authorship in This Age of AI Agents": my book chapter with @cheesetalk.bsky.social is finally out with @springernature.com! Here's a link to the book itself, beautifully edited by @nzagalo.bsky.social and Damian Keller >> link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... <<
Phraselette is a writing tool/design intervention into AI writing. It provides a palette of word search procedures: find related phrases by style, context, sound, vibe dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... w/ @maxkreminski.bsky.social @cheesetalk.bsky.social John Joon Young Chung Melissa Roemmele Taewook Kim
Phraselette: A Poet’s Procedural Palette | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
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I got my tiny birthday cake at DiGRA 😭😭😭😭 I’m 28! 🎂 #DiGRA
I’m at DiGRA! Welcome to join our discussion on Monday 6:30pm CET 😆 Sign-up here: forms.gle/jmwCWyLQtof5...
cmrn knzlmn@ckunzelman.bsky.social · last yr.I'm one of the keynotes for Big DiGRA this year, and the organizers have invited us to have a public discussion about games in the current moment. It's on Monday June 30th at 6:30pm CET (18:30) which is 12:30pm Eastern. Link below if you want the Zoom information.
Mark your calendars! 30/06 18.30 CET, as part of DiGRA 2025 at the University of Malta, I'm thrilled to be co-chairing Games at the Crossroads - a public discussion with a great lineup of speakers! Livestreamed on Zoom, free attendance - just sign up to receive the link: forms.gle/jmwCWyLQtof5...
🧶 Fuzzy Linkography: Automatic Graphical Summarization of Creative Activity Traces we introduce a new way to analyze user activity logs from creativity support tools… …& illuminate patterns of creative divergence, convergence, idea development, & homogenization at scale arxiv.org/abs/2502.04599
this one earned an Honorable Mention at C&C 2025. presentation tomorrow! joint work w/ Amy Smith (QMUL), @barrettrees.com, @jatazak.bsky.social, @isaackarth.bsky.social, @cheesetalk.bsky.social, @jjyc.bsky.social, & Melissa Roemmele – some of whom are now seeking postdocs / industry research roles…
ATUEL IS COMING TO STEAM & GOOGLE PLAY ON JUNE 30TH! 🎉🙌✨ This free re-release of our award-winning surrealist documentary game about climate change comes with localization to 7 new languages and full controller support! 💬🎮 Wishlist it now! 🙏💕 store.steampowered.com/app/2794330/...
Atuel on Steam
Atuel is an award-winning surrealist documentary game in which you explore beautiful, dreamlike landscapes inspired by the topography and wildlife of the Atuel River Valley in Argentina.
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I’m a super fan of Flo now @florencesn.bsky.social ☺️☺️Check the amazing paper about Archaeological Gameworld Affordances dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #CHI2025
King's HCC Group@kingshcc.bsky.social · last yr.At 11.10am today @florencesn.bsky.social will be presenting their paper on Gameworld Archaeological Mental Models in the Games Session in G318+G319, co-authored with @mtrc.bsky.social. #chi25 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
Re: puppetry as a simile/metaphor of gen AI (in case you missed it), there is also this article by @cheesetalk.bsky.social and I, freely available on Arxiv :) arxiv.org/abs/2501.15346
Between Puppet and Actor: Reframing Authorship in this Age of AI Agents
This chapter examines the conceptual tensions in understanding artificial intelligence (AI) agents' role in creative processes, particularly focusing on Large Language Models (LLMs). Building upon Sch...
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#GDC2025 week was one of the most exhausting seven days of my life, but I grew up so much. I used to see myself mostly as an observer and often hesitated to share my ideas — but now, I truly feel like I’m part of the industry 🥹
well meaning i suppose but if you want to know anything of the impact trans people have on games you have to engage with stuff that will never appear on this sort of list because it's free, or it's too strange, or it's only on itch, etc
Checkpoint Gaming@checkpointau.bsky.social · last yr.This #TransDayofVisibility we’ve collated a definitive list of 90+ trans games throughout history. Almost 100 games by trans developers and/or with trans representation. Featuring games from: @deconstructeam.bsky.social @maddymakesgames.com and many others 🏳️⚧️ checkpointgaming.net/features/202...
i forgot i set a sale for this but my new game "A Butterfly" is 51% off on Steam right now, for $0.49 store.steampowered.com/app/3439300/... get it even cheaper? yay cheap cool weird games!
Save 51% on A Butterfly on Steam
The abyss called your name. You followed it here. Now you are its prisoner. A Butterfly is part horror, part interactive poem about overcoming and bittersweet surrender
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I finished my first GDC talk today about '1001 Nights' Thanks everyone for attending 🥳 Ended up with a nearly full room - really flattered by the audience! I hope my indie game can be a prompt for innovative gameplay based on LLMs #GDC2025 Steam Demo: store.steampowered.com/app/2782660/...
My favorite talk so far 😭 Thank you so much for sharing the stories about The Crush House @nicole.pizza
Thanks Tommy! ☺️✨🔮
Tommy Thompson@tommy.aiandgames.com · last yr.We kick off the next talk with @cheesetalk.bsky.social talking about 1001 Nights: an AI-native game that uses generative AI to support the player in telling stories to ensure their survival . You can find it on Steam now at: store.steampowered.com/app/2542850/...
Welcome to join my talk tomorrow! #GDC2025
CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan@cheesetalk.bsky.social · last yr.The time of my #GDC2025 talk has just been scheduled! 2:10 pm - 2:40 pm March 17. Welcome to drop by & leave a message! #GDC BTW, I'm so lost in the tool --- should I contact ppl by GDC platform or M2M? Really need some suggestions... 😱 schedule.gdconf.com/session/game...
WHAT WE OWE THE DEAD (my latest #sci-fi novel) is finally a thing! Physical copies will be sent out next week (both to those who pre-ordered and to bookstores). >> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... <<
