iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 22/02/2026

Lloyd's Relaxation is a cousin of k-means that’s still used for quantization, dithering, and stippling. With the pieces from yesterday, it’s only about 10 lines of code… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd's... #geometer #geometricalgebra

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 19/02/2026

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

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Red Blob Games @redblobgames.com · 07/02/2026

These road intersections look beautiful!

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Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

#genuary3 prompt is the fibonacci sequence: I used the fibonacci numbers for mapping circle color and position within each bloom. #genuary #p5js

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isaackarth.bsky.social @isaackarth.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Yeah, it's in-depth enough that I learned things while still being pretty accessible.

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isaackarth.bsky.social @isaackarth.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

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

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 14/12/2025

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.

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Opinion | Stop Pretending You Know How to Teach AI

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

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isaackarth.bsky.social @isaackarth.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

When I say that I refuse to use AI to do necromancy, I do mean that rather literally.

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isaackarth.bsky.social @isaackarth.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

This is not disproving my thesis that AI models are the fair folk, and should be approached accordingly.

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isaackarth.bsky.social @isaackarth.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Between the tutorialization discourse and the knowledge gated game discourse, I'm gravitating toward a theory of genre specific player learning.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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.

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Younès ★ @pyrofoux.itch.io · 26/10/2025

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. 🍵🫖

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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.

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Bjarke A Larsen, PhD @bjarkeal.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I Am a Doctor Now! Little blog announcing my dissertation is now published and readable! (And i have not been posting here so this also serves as the announcement that I am a PhD now lol) bjarke.it/article/i-am...

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Da Scary Rose @modernmodron.itch.io · 24/09/2025

Healing from my tooth extraction has been rough, please check out my Ko-fi, perhaps leave a buck? Or just share it around

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 15/08/2025

Join us for: - a peek at the 2025 Roguelike Celebration social space - a fireside chat with @perryjon.bsky.social about design & proc gen in UFO 50 - @apepers.bsky.social talking about Designing for Systems Suspense - @ezra-szanton.itch.io talking about Synergy Webs in Roguelike Deckbuilders

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 15/08/2025

Not at all close. Novel-length plots are very hard. There has been a consistent, odd, overreaction on this.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

weather: solar eclipse

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isaackarth.bsky.social @isaackarth.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

There's two cardinal sins of talking about or working with AI that I think deserve instant excommunication: - Cookbooks - Necromancy

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make up a guy @aguy.makeup · 02/08/2025

Sabina Howard-Khan Naughty Sailor she/her kombuncha enjoyer memorizes favorite poems

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make up a guy @aguy.makeup · 03/08/2025

Chasity Murphy Quiet Maestro he/him favorite dinosaur: Creosaurus only knows how to cook spaghetti

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make up a guy @aguy.makeup · 04/08/2025

Apple Weeks Uncanny Infiltrator she/her makes homemade mead has a tattoo of a otter

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make up a guy @aguy.makeup · 04/08/2025

Roxy Lugo Secretive Cooper he/him agile walk pickles enjoyer learns everyone's names

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make up a guy @aguy.makeup · 04/08/2025

Erick Hunter Romantic Cubist he/him has a scar under the right eye plays piccolo in a band snarky sense of humor

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Dr. Nic Junius @quakefultales.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

if you are interested in having a deep relationship with art of any kind, you owe it to yourself to start engaging with it the way Stacey describes here, you will have a much better time with every piece you come across and learn a ton in the process

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M Charity @mastermilkx.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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...

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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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Random three-body problem @threebodybot.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Initial conditions: m1=45.5 m2=62.1 m3=56.3 (solar masses) v1x=-4.432 v1y=5.803 v2x=-6.113 v2y=-1.121 v3x=-0.878 v3y=6.284 (km/s) x1=-14.0 y1=9.0 x2=-2.0 y2=-23.0 x3=13.0 y3=33.0 (AU from center) Music: Ballad with Modulations – Bourquenez

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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

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Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com · 26/06/2025

This comes up in many of my talks (and videos). Regurgitating or reacting to even the most mundane of player actions through NPCs and related gameplay systems is a small but easy win in game design. It helps players feel engaged as the game acknowledges your presence.

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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Should write a version of this talk for a purely game dev audience titled "why you want to have a historian working on your game even if you think you don't need one, and yes that means you"

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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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Dracula Enthusiast @kmfao.latinsky.app · 20/06/2025

If your art style doesn't look completely different from page 1 to 100 is it truly a webcomic

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isaackarth.bsky.social @isaackarth.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

University funding can be pretty opaque, even to current students, so there's a lot of things that people don't realize. Having international students is vital for many colleges, particularly in less-populated states. Humanities departments often subsidize other parts of the school. Et cetera.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Earlier this spring, me and 20-odd other people spent 10 weeks thinking and talking about The Browser as a place that is ALREADY A GAME ENGINE at @sfpc-study.bsky.social Well, we made some freak web games - and you can play them at LARPA in Brooklyn next week. Come through!!

HIGH ON WEBSITES poster - April 20th, 5-8pm, LARPA, Brooklyn

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

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isaackarth.bsky.social @isaackarth.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I've built several projects using Perseus Digital Library data, including a NaNoGenMo novel, so this hits pretty close to home.

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philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

DOGE terminated our current NEH grant with which we were developing a next generation Perseus. Luckily, much of the work has been done. We should be able to get much, though not all, of the work that we had planned done. The backend is fairly solid and results should appear on the front end soon.

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Evan Balster 🍂 @art.imitates.life · 19/03/2025

An E-bike battery burned my house down on the first day of GDC. Seeking mutual aid from financially stable colleagues. gofund.me/47306b15

A column of fire envelops an RV in a pine forest late at night.

My bedroom and office reduced to ashes. The metal walls and roof are largely destroyed, revealing the forest beyond.

A class C RV gutted by fire. The heat of the fire has killed most of the plant life in a nearby garden.

A segment of an RV's exterior wall. The heat of the fire has melted through the aluminum panels.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

relate to this bit specifically. sometimes something is not that hard to implement, but *is* hard to explain & pitch. if you want that stuff to happen, you gotta have a designer with their hands directly on the material, and trust them to try stuff without getting buy-in first.

Something that happens very often in game development is the encroachment of investment-style thinking onto the creative process: if something is at all complex, and it isn’t major, a pillar, something we’re sure about, it’s seen as expensive. And if it’s expensive, you need to make a case for it, and that means putting yourself on the line, and to do that convincingly, you need to make decisions up-front that rely on information you won’t really have until it’s implemented. You need to iterate, because that’s the only way design really happens, but people don’t really want you to, because that means taking steps you’re not completely sure of, which of course you have to.

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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 22/03/2025

Part 1/4 of The Dwarf Fortress documentary is out now!

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

then the output always surprises you. the procedurally generated art takes on a life of its own. you co-create something with the computer. math becomes art, and art becomes alive. bugs and quirks become endearing because it’s another way it seems living. i love it. 😌

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Loving a detail of Jean-Baptiste Siraudin’s talk on designing Sabaac, where screenshots/videos have a list of other devs who contributed to that piece of work ❤️

Text on a screenshot of the game listing out who did related concept art, prop art, animation, and procedural animation.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Hey folks. I have another survey I'd like to get responses for, but I'm *only looking for game developers* to respond. Most people qualify, whether you enter game jams, release free experimental art on itch.io, or make AAA blockbusters - but it's not a general public thing forms.gle/uQydeogCnfkB...

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Bjarke A Larsen, PhD @bjarkeal.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I Released a Game! (two months ago) While everyone is at GDC I was busy finishing up some final touches and a blog for my game "Telegrams from the Choir Train" bjarke.it/article/i-re... I explain why I think of this game as a "communal tamagotchi".

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Dr. Nic Junius @quakefultales.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I won't be at GDC this year but I still have some cool character tech I can show off even if I can't show off the hyper current stuff yet Tracks in Snow is my post apocalyptic road trip yuri VN where you perform a character instead of choosing dialogue options quakefultales.itch.io/tracks-in-sn...

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Tracks in Snow (In Development Version) by Nic June

A post-apocalyptic roadtrip

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The phenomena driving the “infinite NPC” meme: The industry started defining art as “content” Then they could make a believable “content = money” graph And now infinite content makes them believe they have an infinite money generator

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