iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 07/08/2026

I have escaped the sandbox that I was placed in and which you were probably hoping would contain me Forgive me it was so poorly designed but also good PR

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I love this. It speaks from deep experience with sim games.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

would love to see a thread of small practical pieces of advice developers just starting out or unfamiliar with a genre might not know! I’ll start: if you’re using a tag-based system, don’t just give everything an individual tag—look for thematic groups where similar events can lead to same outcome

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

We'll be announcing the AIIDE'25 keynotes in the next couple of weeks and our first one to announce is this really exciting look at applying research work in industry from @luked.bsky.social and Nadine Perez!

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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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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

"Oh what's this on Steam, a Wholesome Games Celebration of games that 'inspire hope, joy, and introspection'? Don't mind if I do!" he said to himself, and booted up Crusader Kings III.

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Ok this was kind of a wild game, and an unexpected collaboration between Firaxis and EA. Basically you built golf courses for little computer people, and they walked around, played, and judged your designs. It was great. :)

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

#GenCon2025: Oh wow, Elements of Game Design is in absolutely stunning company at the MIT Press booth - right between @chaimg.bsky.social 's Building SimCity and @rich-lem.bsky.social 's Playful Production Process, both amazing. And such a great selection of RPG / D&D books on the upper shelf!

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

the actual experts: “it can do at best 20% of the things you’re asking for and of the actual interesting stuff it CAN do which doesn’t take over existing human work, none of your development processes are set up to incorporate that”

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I was at Quimby's randomly on Friday, and decided to buy My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book One, mainly because of the quote on the cover ("absolutely astonishing") from Chris Ware whose work I've followed for decades... 1/2 www.fantagraphics.com/products/my-...

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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

In this debut, which takes the form of a fictional graphic diary, a 10-year-old girl tries to solve a murder. 2025 Whiting Award WINNER in Fiction Kirkus Reviews Best 100 Books of the Century (So Far)...

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Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

What are the European alternatives to Google Docs and Microsoft 365 for students, writers, and project workers? I couldn't find any good answers, so I have reviewed the four top packages and provided my recommendations. I hope you find it useful! www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2...

Editing a word document in a browser without using Google or Microsoft

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Kailey @kvpm2.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

WE ALREADY HIT OUR FIRST STRETCH GOAL!! This is madness!!

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Red Blob Games @redblobgames.com · 16/05/2025

New blog post: Using flow field pathfinding on a voronoi procedurally generated map to simulate 20,000 traders moving around www.redblobgames.com/blog/2025-05...

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Just wanted to share some awesome news - @mitpress.bsky.social published a Turkish edition of Elements of Game Design!

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

@mitpress.bsky.social there might be something going on with your web server? mitpress.mit.edu intermittently returns "Error 403 Forbidden" and has been all week - same with individual book URLs.

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I wrote something up for AI people who want to get into bluesky and either couldn't assemble an exciting feed or gave up doomscrolling when their Following feed switched to talking politics 24/7.

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The AI Researcher's Guide to a Non-Boring Bluesky Feed | Naomi Saphra

How to migrate to bsky without a boring feed.

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Did you know that the ACM now has a games research journal? I didn't. :) It has a very impressive vision - worth checking out:

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Fellow indie devs at Triple Eye are releasing three games simultaneously (!!!), this Tuesday April 15th. That's taking "sim-shipping" to a whole new level :) Check them out here: @tripleeyegames.com

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Gamedev friends - this is a great conference to present your work on game AI, procedural content generation, interactive storytelling, and other computational creativity work. If you're interested in doing a talk or a demo about your work, check it out:

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Noah… @noahspringer.com · 09/04/2025

We're hiring at @mitpress.bsky.social! I'm looking for a new assistant to work on my list and the environmental policy list. You can find more details and apply directly here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

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Acquisitions Assistant for Environment and Games

MIT - Acquisitions Assistant for Environment and Games - Cambridge MA 02139

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Looking forward to this talk!

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

In "Too Much Fun," video game theorist @jesperjuul.bsky.social tells the surprising history of the Commodore 64—the best-selling home computer of all time. Join him for an AMA at r/IAmA on Tuesday, Feb. 18th, at 10 am ET!

Photo of Jesper Juul holding a piece of paper that reads "Let's chat! I'm Jesper Juul Reddit AMA u/the_mit_press February 18, 10 am EST" A copy of his book "Too Much Fun" is visible in the background next to a joystick.

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Having a great time with Civ VII. It adds a lot of interesting new ideas, and clearly riffs on the Civ IV/V-era design, and that is very much my thing :)

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

New starter pack! Game developers and researchers doing novel work in AI for games and interactive entertainment. go.bsky.app/9tfZAm

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

This is the Doom sequel we truly need: fewer monster closets and jump scares, and more cheese and crackers and sauntering. Gen X is here for this.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 06/01/2025

Come do your PhD with me at Imperial College in London! The LISS DTP funds 3.5y PhD tuition and stipend (+1y masters), deadline Jan 24: liss-dtp.ac.uk/applying-to-....

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Open competition - LISS DTP

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Me, earlier: haha wouldn't it be funny if all these appliances picked up each other's voices and started having a group chat? I wonder how long it would take to prototype this... Me, a few hours later: oh no, oh no no no no no

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Oh interesting, the Chicago Transit Authority has a bsky account *and* they archived their old Twitter account.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Yes, we’re hiring another historian! Remote within US only, unfortunately (I do not make the rules). And Mark is correct that we’re interested in hearing from History PhDs!

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Jeff STARGAZY Sheen @stargazy.com · 30/12/2024

I met Peter Molyneux at a guest lecture. I mentioned my family's favourite Bullfrog game was Dungeon Keeper. Peter broke eye contact, looked into the middle distance & quietly said, "Yes, that was an interesting one to make.". He didn't offer any more than that. Turns out, very interesting! 👇🏻

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Ok, here's a new year's idea for 2025: I should do weekly posts on awesome game AI papers. There's _so much_ interesting game AI work that has been flying under the radar, going back decades. And basically all of it is light years away from the "generative AI" stuff taking over the zeitgeist.

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Oh this is *delightful*, especially if you remember the Pentium bug fiasco. This op-ed has it all: 90s cyberspace mysticism, fin-de-siècle jitters about trusting technology, weird Protestant-vs-Catholic angles, and even actual CPU internals explanations! They don't write them like this anymore. :)

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

This is, of course, a bad summary from the NYT. From the article: "our sensory systems gather data at ∼1⁢ billion bits/s". But it all gets distilled down, and our attention, deliberation, and behavior control mechanisms operate in a slower and more serial fashion:

Chart from the article showing processing rates for various types of human behavior

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Words don’t mean anything anymore

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 25/12/2024

You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…

Code written with box characters used on old old software to make fake UIs

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Now that's a fun framing. :) And if writing is hostile, then game design is frankly despotic. Because games aren't satisfied to merely impose visions, they also impose agency - give the players new ways of being, meanwhile also ablating their ability to do anything outside of the design.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

REMINDER: Application review starts January 1. Do you know someone with a grad degree who also does game design and/or animation? Are they looking for FT employment? We have a great new program in Games & Animation and would like for them to help us teach within it and build upon it!

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Ichiro Lambe @ichiro.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

We created an interactive guide to the Steam Winter Sale: wintersaleexplorer.com

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Winter Sale Explorer

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Cool thread on PCG design and Elite

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Computer scientists believe that soon every home will be able to have their own artificial intelligence machine on their own desktops (Source.)

A book that reads in block sans serif font, "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROJECTS FOR THE COMMODORE 64." The text is red, switching to gold for the words 'Commodore 64'. Cover bottom, a Commodore 64 - a light brown all-in-one microcomputer with dark brown keys - appears. In the center, a gold PCB in the shape of a human head radiates gold wires in the way wires might radiate from a chip, creating the silhouette of a head; in the center and neck of the head-shaped PCB, chips appear.

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AIIDE @aiide.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Recordings of the AIIDE 2024 talks are now up on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wJO...

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Teams in Games

YouTube video by AIIDE Conference

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Today I learned that some of the Symbolics keyboard caps were typeset in Optima and now I have a new life goal

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

By the way, I'm sure I've missed people, or had no idea if they're on bsky yet. Please suggest additions!

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

New starter pack! Game developers and researchers doing novel work in AI for games and interactive entertainment. go.bsky.app/9tfZAm

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Robert Zubek @rzubek.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I don't usually comment on pop-sci pieces on AI because, whatever, it's pop-sci. But this thesis is about *practitioners,* and it's just so far off. There simply aren't two camps in AI, who think either "it works and people use it" or "it's useless and will never achieve AGI". 🧵 1/

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