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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I finally made a website that collects all my lectures and teaching material: perttuh.notion.site/learning-mat... Topics include: Science of Game Design, AI Tools and Workflows, Ideation, Pitching & Marketing, Game Programming...

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Game Design and Development learning material | Notion

This is a curated collection of my lecture slides plus material that didn’t (yet) make it to the lectures. I scavenge for teaching material almost daily and log the best finds here. Enjoy! Prof. P...

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

1/4 Join us and the Autotelic Interaction Research (AIR) group @aalto.fi / Finland to work on Computational Social Intrinsic Motivation (SIM) as PhD (4y) or postdoc (2y). Job ad w project description and application instructions: bit.ly/4jyNLGv. We're looking forward to learning about you!

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Doctoral Researcher and Postdoc positions to work on Computational Social Intrinsic Motivation (SIM) | Aalto University

The Autotelic Interaction Research (AIR) group at the Dept. of Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland is looking for 1 Doctoral Researcher (2+2 years) and 1 Postdoc (2 years) to work on Computational Social Intrinsic Motivation (SIM)

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

New papers: FDG 2025 proceedings are finally out and I'm super proud and excited about these two 🧵

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Aalto's game design Itch page updated: aalto-gamedesign.itch.io

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Jordan Magnuson's Game Poems Magazine "intent to submit" deadline approaching www.gamepoems.org/submit

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Game Poems Magazine - Submit

Submit to Game Poems

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

A nice structured collection of AI papers github.com/FoundationAg...

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Cascadeur (animation software) adds AI-driven inbetweening. This looks promising, as with their physics-based editing features, it should be easy to finetune the result, e.g., adjust how heavy or light the movement feels. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GNX...

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Inbetweening | Cascadeur 2025.1 Feature Highlights

YouTube video by Cascadeur

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A good thread on indie game marketing. Might be worth checking out the Steam page now and again later to see how the OP has implemented the advice given by others www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/s...

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From the IndieDev community on Reddit: I spent over 7 years developing a game all by myself. Now that no one is playing it, I realize how much it actually affects me.

Explore this post and more from the IndieDev community

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

My first "fanboy" game research paper (CHI 2025)! I'm a huge Dark Souls and Elden Ring fan and in this paper, we study how DS players discuss depression on Reddit. I developed the AI-assistance part of the analysis process. acris.aalto.fi/ws/portalfil...

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Lovely math & graphics wizardry 😍

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Today’s game design teaching materials

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Abishek Jaiswal (game designer/developer at Valo Motion, an Aalto games graduate) gave a super nice talk yesterday about designing Valo Motion's games where the players see their own bodies inside the game world www.twitch.tv/videos/23959...

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This made my day: An Elden Ring demake in Bitsy 😍 The art captures the original's atmosphere incredibly well. yrannn.itch.io/bitsy-elden-...

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ELDEN RING: Shadow of Erdtree (bitsy ver. ) by yrannn

Explore the shadow realm in 8-bit style!! (all lores & no battle)

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

We're seeking new HCI faculty. Would be great to have more HCI & Games colleagues, please apply! www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...

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Assistant Professor in Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction) | Aalto University

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

A really cool paper on why transformers need coordinate-wise adaptive learning rate openreview.net/pdf/32bac765...

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Jeremy Howard @howard.fm · 19/12/2024

I'll get straight to the point. We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT. Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff. It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Another unpublished Kinect prototype from 2011. This was a blast to work on—the combat managed to feel powerful and fluid. I’m the test player in the red shirt. Also my first Unity project (Unity 3.5, we previously worked with Gamebryo and Phyre) www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH0U...

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Unpublished Kinect melee combat prototype from 2011

YouTube video by Perttu Hämäläinen

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Found this video of my physics-based Kinect prototypes from 2011, got a permission to upload. Still quite proud of some, wondering if there’s something to reuse/adapt for Quest 3. youtu.be/meP8jvv5kHc?...

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Unpublished physics-based Kinect game prototypes from 2011

YouTube video by Perttu Hämäläinen

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Yay, a bi-decennial website update! users.aalto.fi/~hamalap5/

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Meta Llama 3.3 LLM out. Beats gpt-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 at a fraction of the token cost and is open source. www.llama.com Disclaimer: I’d like AI to clean and do the dishes, not replace human creative work. But whatever we use AI for, I’d prefer it to be open source.

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Aalto Media Lab Demo Day Wed 11 Dec, 1pm, at the new and awesome Marsio event studio, Aalto University campus. This is also the opening of the 30 year anniversary exhibition. www.aalto.fi/en/events/aa...

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Aalto Media Lab Demo Day 2024 | Media Lab 30 Years Exhibition Opening | Aalto University

Aalto Media Lab Demo Day highlights the work from the students and faculty of the Aalto Media Lab.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Bluesky is truly having an incredible run as Threads' head of product

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney was exactly what I needed during these dark times. Made me cry with empathic joy, multiple times. www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

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Intermezzo

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and fami…

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

X pushes a 40% discount of the ”verified” subscription desperately, with a full-screen ad pop-up where the close button is hidden until one scrolls down. Elon must be feeling the exodus 😂

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God @thegodshow.com · 23/11/2024

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

TIL employee monitoring software with AI is a thing 😭 It’s of course only temporary, as it eventually provides the training data needed for automating the work. For once, I’m happy about the EU AI and data privacy laws that probably prevent this here. Or do they? www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/s...

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Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Will become active here as soon as the current teaching crunch ends. Meanwhile: Let’s see how YouTube sharing works (our VR dance game project, CHI 2024) youtu.be/xC4vm1unpC0?...

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WAVE: Anticipatory Movement Visualization for VR Dancing (CHI 2024 paper video)

YouTube video by Perttu Hämäläinen

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