Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for work
@vherve.bsky.social
Phd in Procedural Content Generation in games. Ex game engine developer. Level design mad scientist.🤘🏳️⚧️🇫🇷
I've written a book! Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves is the story of procedural generation - the tech behind games like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress. It's about how it works, the games that use it, and the art and magic behind it. Out May 7th, in bookshops: linktr.ee/next_level 🎲🔮
Announcing the 2026 @gendesignmc.bsky.social Minecraft Settlement Generation Competition! Make PCG systems in Minecraft, where the challenge is to write an algorithm that generates a settlement that dynamically adapts to any terrain. More info + Discord link: gendesignmc.wikidot.com/wiki:2026-se...
"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.
It's Transgender Day of Remembrance. Today we remember and honor those who we've lost 🏳️⚧️
PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else! 🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st 🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
PROCJAM - The Procedural Generation Jam
A game jam from 2025-11-21 to 2025-12-01 hosted by PROCJAM. Let's Make Something! PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is a creative coding jam about making things that make things. This normally...
itch.io
Our latest preprint: "Landmarks, Monuments, and Beacons: Understanding Generative Calls to Action" is now available on arXiv! It is a nice conclusion to my own PhD, and summarise nicely all the observations and research we did through the last years. w/ @warpefelt.com and @christophsalge.bsky.social
Landmarks, Monuments, and Beacons: Understanding Generative Calls to Action
Algorithmic evaluation of procedurally generated content struggles to find metrics that align with human experience, particularly for composite artefacts. Automatic decomposition as a possible solutio...
arxiv.org
Ex Novo 2nd edition (digital edition) is out, and you can already get it on the game's itchio & DriveThruRPG pages. If you have already bought Ex Novo, you already have access to the 2nd edition. 🏗️ itchio: sharkbombs.itch.io/ex-novo 🏗️ DriveThruRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
Congratulations to Dr Hervé! Her work on procedural generation and Minecraft has been really inspirational, and will have a long legacy. You should hire her - she’s an incredible researcher but also a seasoned industry game dev too!
Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for work@vherve.bsky.social · 11mo agoLife update: I am still looking for work, but I am now a doctor, which make it way more fancy 😊
Life update: I am still looking for work, but I am now a doctor, which make it way more fancy 😊
Cisgender folk, if you see a before and after comparison picture of a transgender person, I want you to focus in on the eyes. The dead, heavy before eyes vs the bright, life filled after eyes should communicate why we do this.
The AI and Games Conference returns 3–4 Nov 2025 at Goldsmiths, London! Early bird tickets are live + call for submissions open till July. For more details check out @aiandgames.com newsletter link below. www.aiandgames.com/p/announcing... Contact us for group rates or sponsor details!
Just a reminder that I am about to complete my Phd in Procedural Content Generation, and I am looking for a job :') I have about 5 years of experience as a programmer in AA and AAA studios, I worked on custom engines, Unity, and Unreal. I can work full time, part time, as a consultant, anything!
I have just submitted my PhD thesis 🥹🥹🥳 It’s crazy how time flies. When I started my PhD, I was still a boy, and now I am a grown woman 😳
Help our dear organiser, Bojan Endrovski, with his research and fill out the following Procedural Level Generation Survey: lnkd.in/efYNTqdE The outcome of the survey will be shared and all developed tools will be open-source. Reposting or sharing it with others is appreciated!
Of course they did! If you have brand safety concerns, you should never trust raw LLM output.
AmericanTruckSongs10@ethangach.bsky.social · last yr.It looks like Fortnite players have already gotten AI Darth Vader to say fuck
The european citizens' initiative to ban conversion therapies in the EU only has 250k signatures and needs to amass 1 million in the next 7 days... If you live in the EU, please sign it (you can't otherwise); if you don't, please share it around.
Le Coin Des LGBT+@lecoindeslgbt.bsky.social · last yr.Si l'initiative citoyenne européenne visant à interdire les thérapies de conversion dans toute l'UE ne récolte pas 1 million de signatures d'ici 10 jours, elle échouera malheureusement... eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
The creative AI community actually did AI-generated recipes in the 2010s, without LLMs or anything like that. They had a lot of fun with it - Simon Colton and Dan Ventura even cooked a bunch of them with an actual chef at an exhibition, and they had fun silly names made by a little Markov generator.
Wagatwe Wanjuki@wagatwe.bsky.social · last yr.oh my god
I am currently finishing the write up of my PhD, and let me tell you that Christoph has been an amazing supervisor through the last 4 years, and probably the best I have heard of! If you are considering doing a PhD in CC, it’s a crazy opportunity ☺️
Christoph Salge@christophsalge.bsky.social · last yr.Do you want to do a Phd at @herts.ac.uk with me in the topic of: Changing the Environment with Intrinsically Motivated Computational Creativity? Then apply for a fully funded Phd position with our Centre for Future Societies, reference ADS4. Deadline: 26. May, 2025 Details below. Please share.
Anti-trans policies don't just hurt trans people. They hurt anyone who doesn't fit neatly into a pink box or a blue one. And they hurt the rest of us by creating pressure to ensure that we always fit neatly into our box.
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · last yr.Advocate [Mar 28] -- Lake City FL Walmart fires 7-year employee w/ spotless record who tutors special needs kids in spare time after a male customer attacks her for being trans because she is 6' 4" tall. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social [HT @denisenorris.bsky.social]
Hear me out: a ttrpg where you eat fortune cookies instead of rolling dices.
bleeptrack @bleeptrack.de · 2y agoUuh, thanks I guess?
AI ? Corrupt governments ? mega-corps ? Genocide in plain sight ? War ? Dead internet ? Body augmentation getting illegal ? Time to wake up Samuraï, we have a city to burn...
