iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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1001nights-ai.bsky.social @1001nights-ai.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

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

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1001nights-ai.bsky.social @1001nights-ai.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 12/03/2026

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

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Clara Fernandez-Vara @clarafv.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

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

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

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

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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

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Phraselette: A Poet’s Procedural Palette | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I got my tiny birthday cake at DiGRA 😭😭😭😭 I’m 28! 🎂 #DiGRA

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I’m at DiGRA! Welcome to join our discussion on Monday 6:30pm CET 😆 Sign-up here: forms.gle/jmwCWyLQtof5...

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Daniel Vella @danielvella.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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...

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

🧶 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

Teaser figure (Figure 1) from the linked paper.

Caption: "Fuzzy linkography allows for the rapid translation of user activity logs from digital creativity support tools (and other traces of creative activity) into rough graphical summaries, suitable for visual and quantitative inspection by researchers."

On the left, a little sketchy person labeled "CST user" sits at a laptop and types in an idea to be rendered as an image. From their interactions, we derive a "creative activity trace" listing off all the ideas they've suggested as bullet points: "cat", "pink cat", "angry cat", and so on, all the way down to "pink cat with glasses". This trace passes through a process labeled "fuzzy linkography" (depicted here as a fuzzy purple cloud with a cat face and tail), and produces a graph labeled as a "fuzzy linkograph" that shows semantic and temporal relationships between user-suggested ideas. Another little sketchy person, labeled "researcher", peers at the fuzzy linkograph through a magnifying glass and thinks about the patterns they see.

Sketches by @cheesetalk.bsky.social!

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

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…

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Pablo F. Quarta 🐍🌺 @pfquarta.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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/...

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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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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

My second #CHI ❤️ Thank all the friends who dropped by ☺️ Two years ago, I could only visit alone. But now, in addition to my role as a researcher at the company, I’ve also become someone who can bring my students and collaborators to showcase our work ☺️ Proud to bring an indie game to #CHI2025.

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

#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 🥹

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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!

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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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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

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/...

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

My favorite talk so far 😭 Thank you so much for sharing the stories about The Crush House @nicole.pizza

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Thank you for attending my talk! ☺️✨

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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 13/03/2025

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... <<

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Nolan Joseph @nolanjosephjp.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

This is extremely important to understand. There is no such thing as “0 funding” for a project of any size.

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Lifestream Media @lifestreammedia.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

100% this. There is nothing that gets done with zero funding. Feeding the team, paying for equipment, grass roots marketing campaigns, playtest, content production... the list goes on. Even if the budget is small, it's gonna cost something.

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Not sure if I'm alone in this: Highlighting solo devs/small teams who created successful games & apps by saying 'they had 0 funding' is unfair and misleading. Living expenses and equipment cost money (even if they owned their homes). These devs self-funded these costs—which is obviously not zero.

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Happy #WomensDay2025 🥰 Last year's artist fees from exhibitions of my #indiegame 1001 Nights were fully donated to scholarships for girls in underprivileged areas + anti-domestic violence funds. It's still at @wingsfund.me #womensdaysale event. Check the demo! store.steampowered.com/app/2782660/...

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I'm packing my schedule for #GDC! 🎮 Will give a talk on LLM-driven #indiegame "1001 Nights" schedule.gdconf.com/session/game... I'd love to chat about: ✨ LLM for novel gameplay 📚 Research in interactive storytelling ✨ Feedback on my game! (I will give you a tiny mech) Welcome to leave a message!

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Thank you for inviting me! Really enjoyed the talk 🥰

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Luba Elliott @elluba.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Last night I hosted my first #LDNcreativeAI meetup in... 6 years 😅 with Terence Broad, Thu Nguyen-Phuoc & @cheesetalk.bsky.social I'm thrilled that London still has the community excited about latest developments in AI & their creative explorations 🤖 🎨 Thank you for your support 🙏🥰 #creativeAI

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

wow I'm gonna join during by SF trip 😍

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Thanks @nerdsloth.bsky.social for playing my game! Another survivor after writing a story for the evil King! XDDD Maybe we should publish a book in the future to collect everyone's stories created in my game... #indiegame youtu.be/a69MzacYv_Q?...

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Write A Story to Stay Alive | 1001 Nights Demo

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

My #indiegame is in @wingsfund.me 's #WomensDaySale ✨ "1001 Nights" is a story-crafting game: tell tales as the heroine Scheherazade to survive the evil King 📚✨ through typing or voice input! The Demo is live! store.steampowered.com/app/2542850/...

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I passed my PhD defense today! ✨ There are some corrections to make, but what a long journey it’s been! 🥺🥺🥺 Thanks my examiners Prof Kurt Debattista, Dr Petro Lameras and my supervisor Dr Ali Asadipour 🥺🥺

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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...

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The whisper in silence is my scream.

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Scheherazade. I draw a lot during Zoom calls…

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Our #indiegame 1001 Nights has been accepted by @acm-sigchi.bsky.social CHI 2025 Interactivity! 🥰"Co-creative story-crafting game with a persona-driven AI character based on GenAI" Can't wait to share the 3rd publication from the game🥰Maybe...it's time for Japanese localization?👺 #chi2025

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Thank you so much for playing my game!! 🥰

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