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@isaackarth.bsky.social

Procedural Content Generation! In Video Games! I'm currently available for hire if you are in need of having something generated, or your generated things aren't behaving.

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jason grinblat@jfg.land · 6mo ago

Heartwarmed and flattered by a new crop of folks getting into Caves of Qud on Switch. If you're having trouble with how deranged it is at the start, please stick with it: it gets much worse

@isaackarth.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I deeply believe that one of the best ways to prepare people to deal with AI is to teach them how it actually works.

Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · 8mo ago

I agree that we don’t already know how to teach “AI literacy” well. But I also think literacy is too modest a goal. College students should graduate knowing how ML works; it’s liberal knowledge analogous to RNA or trig, not search-engine skills or Excel. And we do know how to teach it in that way.

Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · 8mo ago

I agree that we don’t already know how to teach “AI literacy” well. But I also think literacy is too modest a goal. College students should graduate knowing how ML works; it’s liberal knowledge analogous to RNA or trig, not search-engine skills or Excel. And we do know how to teach it in that way.

Opinion | Stop Pretending You Know How to Teach AI

Colleges are racing to make students ‘fluent.’ One problem: No one knows what that means.

chronicle.com

Mike Cook@mtrc.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New Paper: Pixie: Code-Level Mechanic Generation for Game Designers. How do you connect automatic game design to real games? Pixie is a mechanic generation system for Unity games, as an example framework for how to build AGD systems into real game platforms. Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...

Procedural generation has been applied to many kinds of game content including levels, puzzles and narrative. Although PCG researchers have tackled the generation of rules and mechanics, these systems typically operate on bespoke codebases designed for mechanic invention tasks. In this pa-per we present Pixie, a system for generating and testing game mechanics that can be installed in any Unity project and configured using a simple annotation process to focus its scope and objectives. We describe the system’s design and operation, demonstrate its ability to generate mechanics for several open-source Unity games, and provide an initial discussion of developer perspectives on the content it generates and its usefulness as a design companion.
Younès ★@pyrofoux.itch.io · 9mo ago

Tune in to @roguelike.club in 3 hours for my talk about the analogy between physics and procedural generation! We'll see how generators can be solid, liquid or gaseous and why –just like Maxwell's Demon– designers are underrated little guys. 🍵🫖

Title slide. We Are Maxwell's Demons: The Thermodynamics of Procedural Generators. Younès Rabii. Roguelike Celebration 2025. Bottom right: pixel art of a tiny guy heating up a teapot.
M Charity@mastermilkx.bsky.social · last yr.

Do you play video games? Have you played a LOT of video games? Show your gaming knowledge with this 5 minute survey! 🕹️👾 🔍 👀 We're conducting a study for the development of a video game search engine! If you're interested, please fill out the form at the following link: forms.gle/8F4zes2Q7MMY...

GameGoogle Search Term Survey

We are building a search engine (called GameGoogle) that searches within the content of video games for relevance to a keyword based on the elements found within the entire gameplay. This is a researc...

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Max Kreminski@maxkreminski.bsky.social · last yr.

it's really hard to overstate how many of the most impactful writers, thinkers, etc of that era are just gone today. the games industry is infamous for burning through its devs; crit in some ways plays an even more important role in the scene's "institutional memory" but has even less continuity