iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

ravyn @ravyn.ca · 06/12/2025

im playing replanted (admittedly with this texture pack: gamebanana.com/mods/635468) and ... huh??? how?? why is there a pvz2 cabbage on my roof??? how did that even happen???

normal pvz roof level except one of the cabbage pults is a cabbage pult from pvz2 for some reason

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ravyn @ravyn.ca · 16/11/2025

also i know its ironic implicitly to say this but its annoying how everyone is either using genai or talking about people using genai. it occupies like 70% of my mind on any given day because of how often dialogue about it appears will that number just keep going up? find out next time on dbz

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ravyn @ravyn.ca · 16/11/2025

last year, i remember thinking "yeah, things are different from last year when not that many people used genai, and now its commonplace" these days if i see someone on a laptop its like a 40% chance chatgpt is open next year am i gonna be like 'dammmn nobody used genai in 2025' yet again

thank you to everyone for making this an experience i will never forget. ♥️

especially every professor i spoke to at this conference, thank you so deeply for your guidance. i finally feel like i have a dream to catch. more than anything, i feel incredibly inclined to give back to this community and do everything i can to help make it a space for everyone.

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i felt like everyone was truly passionate about themselves and the community they were building. a huge part of it is fangirling over people i respect, and much of this is so we can all make more connections for blablabla capitalism, but i felt an invisible comraderie among almost anyone i spoke to.

what i liked most, esp. comparerd to the stuffy academia i oft feel surrounded by, is how honest this community is. i loved the self-criticism on topics like representation that many i spoke to would be willing to talk about; i was also pleased with how optimistic the pulse on the community felt.

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

finally settled in back at home after aiide i've deleted and rewrote my thoughts on aiide probably a hundred times at this point aiide was a life-changing experience for me. i'm positive that, as i begin my journey into academia, this conference will remain a formative memory forever.

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New Paper: Game Design is Generative Design. Designing a procedural generator and designing a game share a lot of skills, problems and philosophies, even if we think of them as distinct. I try to connect them here, for good! Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...

First page of the paper, which is readable in the link.

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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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Emily Halina @emilyhalina.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

not giving context here is insane

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I'm back with the last day of AIIDE 2025 live posting!

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"i do not know what agi looks like, but i know it includes reinforcement learning" like cmon even if you dont agree with that take its such a cool note to end the talk on

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yet another day goes by and i continue to be swindled by the rl hype train this talk was so fun, schaefer is simply an amazing amazing speaker and has so much energy and charisma to his words

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

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Absolutely delighted by this last #aiide keynote by Jonathan Schaefer. It’s about the history of computer chess but you may know him as the guy who “solved” Checkers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonatha...

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one day left for aiide. looking forward to this last one! the last couple days were so sick, ill probably make a post with my feelings at the end of things

ravyn @ravyn.ca · 13/11/2025

wordle but for game mechanics when

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ravyn @ravyn.ca · 13/11/2025

this talk was very good and my favourite part about it was definitely the "i spent 10 minutes finding the cohost font someone please help me with time management" comment hidden in one of the slides. such a relatable struggle

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Emily Halina @emilyhalina.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Once again live posting AIIDE 2025 Day 2!

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Watching a NES running a neural network to detect hand drawn images LIVE. EXAG undefeated. #AIIDE25

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Emily Halina @emilyhalina.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

and it's running live??????? and inference only takes a couple seconds!!!!!???? this is wild

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

I was so so happy to give an invited talk today at EXAG, a workshop I co-founded over ten years ago! It was quite a personal talk about how research communities grow and change (and die sometimes), what generative AI means for our community today, and the value of weird, pointless research.

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ravyn @ravyn.ca · 11/11/2025

the lens effect on the optimism slide from this picture feels poignant

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Emily Halina @emilyhalina.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Starting off Day 2 of EXAG with Mike Cook's @mtrc.bsky.social amazingly titled keynote 'Being Weird at the End of the World'. Really looking forward to this talk!

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ravyn @ravyn.ca · 11/11/2025

exag day 1 went very well. i #slayed with my new hair colour but i am realising that my profile picture no longer matches my appearance... perhap it is time for a new commission also i loved all the presentations, and it was so hype to meet so many new peeps! im hyped for the rest of this week :3

ravyn @ravyn.ca · 10/11/2025

this was fun to brainstorm