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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We have an opening for a tenured Professor / Associate Professor of Interactive Media "with an emphasis on interactive storytelling, worldbuilding, and/or playful design in the public interest". I'm on the hiring committee and happy to answer questions.

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Associate or Full Professor of Interactive Media Film and Media Arts School of Communication

American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...

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Sam Shields @smshieldsy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One day to submit prototypes and write-ups to the Workshop on Automated Game Design at the AAAI Artificial Intelligence in Interactive Digital Entertainment conference! We want to see maximalist systems that push the limits of procedural content generation. More here: wagd.site #agd #pcg #aiide

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WAGD 2026 - Workshop on Automated Game Design at AIIDE

A home for advancing the state-of-the-art in automated game design. AIIDE 2026, November 9-10. Submissions due September 18th.

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Justus Robertson @justusrobertson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wish I had something at CHI PLAY this year, York is awesome!

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Registration is open for AIIDE 2026, come on over!

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Ahmed Khalifa @amidos2006.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Cellular automata are powerful but painful to author. Rules are a lookup table; neural CAs are more expressive but a black box. What if each CA rule was just code that you can read? Introducing Programmable Cellular Automata (PCA)

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here are the initial recruitment ads - please spread widely and encourage talented candidates to apply! Postdoc: www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha... PhD students: www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha... More rounds of recruitment to follow!

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Justus Robertson @justusrobertson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I repost about it too! If anyone wants to know more, check out my paper "Game Simulacra Construction from Gameplay Video with a Multimodal LLM" at the IEEE Conference on Games (cog2026.org), and the conference in general. It's a great venue and research community!

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IEEE Conference on Games 2026

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AIIDE @aiide.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Missed AIIDE's deadline but still want to join? There's time to submit the The Experimental AI in Games Workshop and Workshop on Automated Game Design! Both are amazing venues on interactive digital entertainment! Go: wagd.site, exag.org

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AIIDE @aiide.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What about AIIDE 2027 in your city? The call for host proposal for AIIDE 2027 is open! Deadlines (11:59 PM AoE): - Proposal Deadline: October 2nd, 2026 - Proposal Notification: October 16th, 2026 Learn More: sites.google.com/view/aiide20...

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AIIDE 2026 - Call for AIIDE 2027 Hosts

The AIIDE 2026 organizing committee hereby invites proposals to host the 23rd AAAI Conference on Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2027), to be held some time during the months of September to ...

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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We have an opening in our Psychology department for an Assistant Professor of Cognitive or Social Psychology. I've been told they are open to cognitive science candidates, and we'd be happy in CS to collaborate with such a person!

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Assistant Professor of Cognitive or Social Psychology

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J. Walton @ludopolitics.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

JOB POST: Games/Creative Folks with a Master's Degree (or more), Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) -- where I work -- is HIRING for 1 permanent & 1 contract teaching position, for interactive media folks w/ some programming background. Is that you? apply.interfolio.com/189698

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AIIDE @aiide.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

We're one month away from submissions! Start (or finish) your papers and join an active and thriving AI in entertainment community at AIIDE. Abstracts are due June 19th. Read more: sites.google.com/view/aiide20...

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AIIDE 2026 - Call for Papers

AIIDE 2026 welcomes submissions across the vast field of Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. We are particularly interested in novel contributions and applications, as well ...

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RL and Video Games Workshop @rlvgworkshop.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Wake up Samurai, RLVG IS BACK! 😎 We are happy to announce the awesome speakers of the second edition of the RLVG workshop: @alexkearney.com, @marloscmachado.bsky.social, Martin Singh-Bloom, Sam Devlin, Pete Wurman and @neuroai.bsky.social! Join us August 15th at @rl-conference.bsky.social!

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AIIDE @aiide.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Are you a PhD student interested in game AI? Submit to AIIDE 2026’s Doctoral Consortium! The feedback a DC provides helps sharpen your dissertation focus while informing you about potential career options. Applications are due July 25, 2026! Read more at: tinyurl.com/aiide26dc

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Justus Robertson @justusrobertson.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Congrats to Bad Bass and all the other IGM teams/projects for a great showing at the RPI GameFest this past weekend!

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Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Friends! The ITU is hiring! We're looking for a tech-savvy person who can help us develop the games program and the Center for Digital Play research profile: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!

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Tenure Track Assistant Professor for Game Technology at IT University of Copenhagen

The IT University of Copenhagen invites highly motivated individuals to apply for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor position starting in Au

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I3D Symposium @i3dsymposium.org · 03/03/2026

We are pleased to announce that I3D 2026 will be hosted at Lucasfilm in May 2026. Conference Dates and Location: Lucasfilm - 1110 Gorgas Ave, San Francisco, California 94129, USA 13 (Wednesday) to 15 (Friday) of May, 2026 Conference Homepage: i3dsymposium.org/2026/ #I3D2026

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I3D Symposium @i3dsymposium.org · 10/02/2026

The I3D 2026 Call for Poster Submissions has been published! Submission deadline: 20 March 2026 Find more information on the website: i3dsymposium.org/2026/cfp-pos... #I3D2026

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Posters Call for Participation | I3D 2026

ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

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Rochester Institute of Technology @rittigers.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Hey, we know that one! We’ll take “Tech Schools” for $2000 please, @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social. #Jeopardy

A jeopardy clue that says RIT, short for this school, left downtown R in 1968 for suburban Henrietta

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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Reupping two TT job openings we have. We start reviewing applications at the end of next week (Nov 1!): Joint Comp Sci + Physics position, open rank: american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-... Joint Comp Sci + Math/Stat position, Assistant level: american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/AU/job...

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

2026 internships available in my team at The LEGO Group! Internships in Story, Ideation, Concept Model Design (ie, building with bricks), Prototyping (3D printing etc), Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!) Physical (springs and spinny things) Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)

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!!!* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY *!!! Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students. We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept…...

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AIIDE @aiide.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

📢 #AIIDE25 schedule has been announced! sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/... ⏰ Early registration ends Oct 10, Don’t miss out!

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AIIDE 2025 - Schedule

Full digital program in-progress

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Justus Robertson @justusrobertson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

This includes a No. 3 in the USA ranking for our Interactive Games and Media department (IGM) in computing-oriented undergraduate game design programs.

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Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Faculty job — please help spread the word! At UC Santa Cruz we have two games degrees, one in Engineering and one in Arts. This is a job with the Arts folks, who include super cool creators like @mattiebrice.bsky.social & @swensen.bsky.social recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01998

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Assistant Professor of Interactive Art, Performance & Games (Initial Review Date 11/14/25)

University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!

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Ahmed Khalifa @amidos2006.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games. Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.

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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I did not know that there's been recent progress on shortest paths, of all things!

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AIIDE @aiide.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

To celebrate over 20 years of AAIDE we want to highlight our Best Paper winners so far! Every week we will add one to this thread until we've caught up 👾

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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

2025 update to my Institutions Active in Technical Games Research ranking, which looks at who publishes in CS+games conferences and journals (AIIDE, FDG, CHI Play, IEEE ToG, etc.)

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Lara J. Martin @laramartin.net · 17/06/2025

The CFP for the Wordplay Workshop at #EMNLP2025 is out! We welcome any work that sits at the intersection of #NLP and games/narrative. We are looking for regular papers (4-8 pgs) and extended abstracts about open challenges in the space (2 pgs) Papers due: August 29 wordplay-workshop.github.io/cfp/

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Official website for the Wordplay Workshop at EMNLP 2025. Exploring interactive narratives, text-adventure games, and AI agents in language-based environments. Join us in Suzhou, China, November 5th-9...

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This is a really bad metaphor. Houses serve a purpose, but math homework doesn't NEED to be solved. I like Ted Chaing's metaphor: using AI for homework is like using a forklift to move weights in a gym. No one needs weights in a gym to be moved. The desired change is /within/ you.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

This blog post makes so many great points. I want to highlight the point about industry benefiting from not having to pay for the cost of trainings their scientists. It’s why AI Industry labs are so productive. They’re staffed with fully trained phds with 5-10 years of experience. It’s amazing…

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

New Post: Please Do, In Fact, @ Me. I wrote a little bit about games academia/industry discourse, and what I think seem to be some common misconceptions about academic publishing (and academia in general, but mostly focusing on how to talk to academics). www.possibilityspace.org/blog-academi...

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

New Game: Mike Cook Presents SQORP! A Digital Puzzle Game It's a quick little game about laying tiles in a grid, inspired by a mathematical puzzle. Play free on itch, in the browser: illomens.itch.io/sqorp #pico8

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Ahmed Khalifa @amidos2006.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

We (I, Matthew Barthet, Roberto Gallotta, Antonios Liapis, @togelius.bsky.social, Georgios Yannakakis) would like to announce the Procedural Content Generation Benchmark (PCG Benchmark). The PCG Benchmark allows users working in PCG research to test their algorithms against a variety of games.

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AIIDE @aiide.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

We are very pleased to announce that AIIDE'25 will be back at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from November 10-14! Paper deadline June 21 AOE. Join us with your work at the intersection of AI and Digital Entertainment! sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

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AIIDE 2025

The 21st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2025) is the next in an annual series of conferences showcasing interdisciplinary research on modeling,...

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Hello! I have a little survey about procedural generation and games. No expert knowledge required - it's for anyone to take and fill in. It'll take about 5 minutes to complete. RTs appreciated! forms.gle/AN4zFDxodQyx...

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We have a bunch of great talks from previous years' summer schools, and we're starting to put them online on YouTube. For more great talks, come to this year's summer school!

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 21/01/2025

Want to do a 🎓 PhD in 🎮 games and 📊 data? I have a 💸 studentship for you: Unpacking Casual Game Engagement Across Time Scales. @ Imperial College London w/ Nottingham University & King (of Candy Crush), deadline March 1. Sadly, UK home students only. To learn more: bit.ly/casual-phd Pls share!

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Other PhD Scholarships Available in Design Engineering

Please see below for current funding opportunities in the department:

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Justus Robertson @justusrobertson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Overleaf went down in Nov. 2019 and stalled my full day of work. It got me in the habit of writing important LaTeX projects in Git, using Overleaf as a web interface. Here is a tutorial for setting up a LaTeX project mirrored between Overleaf, GitHub, GitLab, etc: www.scivision.dev/overleaf-wit...

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Overleaf with GitHub / GitLab

How to use GitHub / GitLab with Overleaf.

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Justus Robertson @justusrobertson.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hello world! I have had a Bluesky account for a while now, but never got it up and running because I am weird and use the web interface. I really like the vibe of this website. The load times are snappy and the design is simple. Reminds me of Twitter! Looking forward to being more active.

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