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Simon Cutajar

@sc.mt
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Programmer, gamedev, Maltese 🇲🇹 immigrant in Sweden 🇸🇪. (Previously 🇬🇧🇩🇰) VR/AR game programmer @resolutiongames.bsky.social PhD in procedurally generated music for games. Talk to me about games, TTRPGs, folklore, music, film, writing, ice-cream simon.com.mt

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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 21/09/2026
My dissertation was about using Markov models to automatically generate musical transition between two pieces of precomposed music in video games. I don't use it in my day job. I'm also disappointed that generative systems are now equated with LLMs; they're so cool and have been around for ages!
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 21/09/2026
King's Quest 6! Played it when I was around 5 years old back in the early 90s! It felt wondrous to me at the time!
Screenshot of the starting beach from King's Quest 6
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 29/07/2026
All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...
someone holding up a sign that AI crossed out
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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
NEW: I spoke with multiple video game developers and a U.S. employment lawyer to learn more about restrictive side clauses that often prevent employees at major companies from pursuing hobbyist work or personal projects. In an industry renowned for creativity, why are we stifling it?
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Developers discuss the pain and prevalence of side work clauses
How an industry renowned for creativity is actively stifling it.
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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.
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IggyMaid @iggymaid.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
am I the only one extremely tired of seeing so much crossover content in games these days thinking it cheapens everything involved when everyone is in everything
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 12/05/2026
Make artefacts, folks. The current internet, all that is digital, is not just at risk of being lost; it will have to be *actively sequestered and deleted* if any of what humans have achieved before us is going to successfully be transmitted to the future.
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Smitner @smitner.studio · 10/05/2026
A sneak peak into the development of indie games:
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 04/05/2026
I've been supervising a MSc student as an industry supervisor for the last couple of months, and reacquainting myself with the academic space after having left it for 6 years has been interesting. The topic is one I care about (PCG in games) and I'm having a great time reading through a thesis draft
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 31/03/2026
Excited to be at Game Town's first game narrative event!
Photo of the panelists and presenter at Game Town's game narrative event
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J. Isaac Gadient (they/them) @jisaacgadient.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
📷 @ninotbh
There's something in you that the world needs.
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 23/02/2026
I've spent the last couple of weeks thinking about how to best architect games that use machine learning for bots. If this is a topic that interests you, you should definitely take a look! simon.com.mt/blog/ml-inte...
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Machine Learning Integration and Game Architecture
Here’s a quick blog post about machine learning integration in game, specifically dealing with system architecture, infrastructure, data collection, and working with Unity.
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 11/02/2026
Sitting in the area marked "Game Development Galaxy"; pretty on point!
A galaxy map of all accounts on Bluesky, which are grouped into different clusters. My account sits in a cluster called "Game Development Galaxy"
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 22/01/2026
Proud that I managed to contribute additional writing to this! Started playing it yesterday and I'm so grateful that it's a somewhat short game that's right up my alley!
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 13/01/2026
Some thoughts and resolutions as we head into 2026 simon.com.mt/blog/thought...
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Thoughts on 2026
As we leave 2025 behind and begin a new year, I thought I’d take a moment to write down a few expectations I would like to set myself for 2026.
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Dora B @heyitsdora.com · 09/01/2026
Don't forget; artists, writers, composers, anyone in game dev... you can also put a "no AI" clause in your work contracts! Protect yourself and the work you do while taking a stance.
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 05/01/2026
I've turned 36 today! I don't normally ask for anything, but this year, I'd love it if you could share something small with me. Whether it's a small sketch, a poem, a short story, a photo, a small game, or music you made; as long as it's artistic and meaningul to you, I will appreciate it! <3
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 31/12/2025
Ending 2025 by wrestling with LaTeX for a document I'm working on
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J.M. (But also Nemo) - writing comms open @alamhigo.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Today is the last day that you can repost this image
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Why stop at asking LLMs to generate references for you? The logical response if you can't find an article reference generated by LLM in a library is to get the LLM to generate the article for you, as it is clearly all-wise and knows everything. Job done.
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 07/12/2025
"Everything I own is full of snot" or, living with a sick toddler
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Dan will be @ London MCM October @deathbulge.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
2-panel comic about two guys lamenting about modern games whilst refusing to acknowledge indie games
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 21/11/2025
After so much time, blood, sweat, and tears poured into the game, we finally launched @battlemarked.bsky.social yesterday! I'm a massive fan of D&D and TTRPGs so it was an honour and a privilege to work with an IP so close to my heart. I hope players enjoy the game as much as we enjoyed making it!
Cover art for the game Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked. The art depicts Ash, tiefling rogue, Jessix, human ranger, and Bolthrax, dragonborn paladin in various heroic poses standing in the foreground. A dragon appears menacingly in the background.Screenshot of a section of the credits from the game Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked. The screenshot showcases various programmers that worked on the game. My name is among the listPhoto of the Stockholm team who worked on the game Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked.Photo of the Linköping team who worked on the game Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked.
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 09/11/2025
Having a kid and interacting with many Swedish parents here has made me so grateful for how patient people can be with my not-so-great Swedish. Even if I struggle or codeswitch to English if I don't know a word, people will gladly continue to speak Swedish to me if I initiated in Swedish.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I don’t talk about it much because the situation doesn’t really change but it’s still insane to me what an enormous amount of really talented game developers are out of work. just whole studios worth of incredible people, often people who worked on beloved games, unemployed.
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 17/10/2025
Ask me anything! Curious about life in Stockholm (or Malta, UK, or Denmark?) What it's like working working as a gamedev? Parenting life in Sweden? Something about books/games/music/RPGs/film/ice-cream? Wanna learn more about me, hopes and dreams, fears and regrets, or affirmations? Ask away!
Photo of a nearby park in Stockholm early in the morning. The leaves on the trees are turning orange and yellow, as autumn is approaching.
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Oh to be a little Tardigrade scratching its back on a bubble. 🫧🐻🧪
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
If you only take the big names as your inspiration you will inevitably be disappointed. There is no career path in games that involves only making big-time successes. Please find inspiration from making work you enjoy and, ideally, uplifting those who DON'T get attention. Many people could use it
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 26/08/2025
I moved from Malta to Denmark in 2011 for my MSc in Game Technology at @itu.dk. I had an amazing time, met a bunch of awesome people in the Copenhagen games scene, and graduated in 2013. Super happy to see the university celebrate its 25th year in games research!
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 24/08/2025
Back in Stockholm, and back to my regular routine on parental leave. You can see a snippet of my trip back home in Malta in the quoted thread.
Photo of the view of Malta from the airplane. The land is a mixture of green and brown, and most of it is built up. The sea is a deep blue, and the sky is clear and a bright blue. The airplane's wing is visible, and the livery indicates that this is a Ryanair plane.
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 22/08/2025
Found a poor lizard trapped in our carpet this morning. No idea how they got there, but they're now living their best life away from purple carpets.
Photo of a lizard trapped within the strands of a purple shag carpet
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 21/08/2025
This might be familiar to anyone in the game AI space, or anyone who's played Creatures 2!
Photo of a green Norn doll plushie, a character from the game Creatures 2
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 21/08/2025
Post a non-religious photo you think of as Holy
Photo of red ochre patterns and spirals drawn on the ceiling of the Ħal-Saflieni Hypogeum. Photo taken from Heritage Malta's website at https://heritagemalta.mt/news/a-subterranean-neolithic-masterpiece-the-hal-saflieni-hypogeum/
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 17/08/2025
Almost got run over by a car today... I was crossing an empty road when a car comes hurtling round the corner, almost knocks me over and speeds up the hill, swearing at me for simply existing I've been so hesitant to rent a car while in Malta because of how much more dangerous the roads have become
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 08/08/2025
I am sitting at the National Library of Malta with unpublished manuscripts for a project I'm working on at the moment, and I'm practically vibrating with excitement. Can't wait to look through them! No photos allowed here, so you'll have to take my word for it.
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 06/08/2025
I'm literally sitting in the National Library of Malta looking through old books and manuscripts as I type this. None of which AI has access to.
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 31/07/2025
Back on the rock! Hello Malta! 🇲🇹
Photo of the clouds and the blue sky out of the airplane window. The Ryanair logo is visible on the plane's wing.Photo of Gozo, Comino, and Malta in the distance, as visible from the plane.
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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I know I keep on banging on about this, but the stifling of access to online archives is hugely in the interests of OpenAI et al. Many people already rely on chatgpt as a search engine but its only going to get worse if other sources are suppressed
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 26/07/2025
I thought I'd try an experiment, so I made imqaret ice-cream this weekend! Imqaret are a Maltese street food/dessert consisting of fried date pastries. I took the date filling and turned it into an ice-cream. It certainly has potential!
Photo of the imqaret filling in a saucepan, consisting of dates, orange blossom water, cloves, cinnamon, and aniseed.Photo of the imqaret ice-cream mixture churning away in the ice-cream machine.Photo of imqaret ice-cream
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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
📢 ISO of Devs Affected by Itch 📢 If your game got: • Deindexed • Removed • Payouts turned off Especially if you make Adult &/or LGBTQ+ #IndieGame or #VisualNovel, I want to talk to you. 🗣️ Please reply below with how you were affected. This is for a #Journalism piece. 🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 05/07/2025
Not many chances to dress up while on parental leave, but attending a wedding is as good a reason as any!
Photo of myself wearing a blue waistcoat and suit jacket, together with a light blue tie and pocket square. I'm holding a floral umbrella due to the rain.
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HONEYMOSS @honeymoss.art · 02/07/2025
👁️‍🗨️Reminder👁️‍🗨️ ▫️ #art ▫️
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Simon Cutajar @sc.mt · 06/06/2025
Today, on Sweden's national day, we went to the Stockholm City Hall to join 6900 brand new citizens and celebrate becoming Swedish in an afternoon of speeches, music, and fika. We were even given free museum tickets and a kid's book about nature for our son! Proud to be dual Maltese-Swedish! 🇲🇹🇸🇪
Photo of a celebration for new Swedish citizens inside the Stockholm City Hall. Lots of people are waving Swedish flags while singing the national anthem.
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