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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I was in NY last month and had the fantastic opportunity to be invited to participate (in person, no zoom!) in Douglas Rushkoff's Team Human podcast! Episode dropping soon :) Until then, check out all his fine work here: www.teamhuman.fm #teamhuman

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Just got out of The Backrooms movie. Or did I? #backrooms

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I have never felt so seen. Finally someone understands how I feel when I eat a great lunch. 🙏 #lunch #kpop #unchild

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I think sometimes UX is the window into the dead-eyed soul of this new crop of tech companies. I signed up for OpenRouter and after creating my account a marketing survey popped up on every page with no way to cancel it. It's hard, as a UX designer, to convey how creepy this is. #UX #AI

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I love PAX East. It’s a conference where you are encouraged to actually play games. Prototypes, 40 year old games, TTRPGs, AAA titles, and everything else. Just thousands of people playing games together. #paxeast #games #❤️

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Heading to PAX East this Friday if anyone wants to chat about AI and game design :)

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Just got back from speaking about live generative AI in games at GDC. What a crowd! AI may not be making a splash at most game conventions but at the developers conference it was EVERYWHERE. I felt right at home here! AI tools, vibe coding platforms, and games are coming fast! #AI #gamedev

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Getting ready to give my talk on Generative AI and safety at GDC! #ai #gdc

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Apparently, you can't make linen with Gemini. It's not safe. #AI #gemini

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Everyone wants you to believe it, but it'll always just be a joke to me. #comedy #politics

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Only game devs face horrors like this every day. #gamedev #videogames

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Emma Thompson beautifully crashes out about the horrible UX (and AI) in Word. People are so sick of crappy UX. More and more "design" is either devalued or used as a bat to beat us to death with a company's agenda. More here: www.linkedin.com/posts/reed-b... #UX #Design #Colbert #EmmaThompson

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

As a creative director with 30+ years of experience, let me demystify "UX" using YouTube's new media player redesign as an example. YouTube: Do you want a bunch of crap to pop up and obscure the end of every video while you're still trying to watch it? Everyone: No YouTube: Ok #UX #Youtube

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Celebrating a client success! Hubzz is a hyper-casual metaverse focusing on events and entertainment. They've just announced a new partnership with Somnia to help kick-start the next phase of their journey and we couldn't be happier for them! Congrats @hubzzhq.bsky.social! #metaverse #crypto

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Indie Game Survivor Bias: With indie devs having insane successes like Megabonk (below), Expedition 33, Gorilla Tag, Balatro, etc. it's easy to look at this as the golden age of indie game development. It's true in a sense, but there is a very substantial dark-side. 🧵👇 1/3 #videogames #indiedevs

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Design, UX, and UI is at rock bottom. It's like companies forgot how humans work. Atrocious. Examples: 🤮 - Every time I log into YouTube I get this passive aggressive empty-appetizer-plate of a "home" screen. - The other one is a multi-billion dollar AI startup? #UX #UI #design

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

A Curiouser LLC client's Alternate Reality Game (ARG) is launching a new phase with intense crypto and AI integration. What's it like designing an AI-ARG? I will tell you... *&^%$ CRAZY! 🤪 (contact me if you'd like to know more) #ARG #AI

Nothing to see here. Didn't use this image in the ARG so there are no clues :)

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.” - Jim Carrey

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Curiouser new client game! This month at the national Insight Net (CDC) convention we launched our newest applied game. Not just a game, but a serious game engine backed by epidemiologic dynamic systems models, generative AI, and immersive game play. It's an experience engine. #cdc #seriousgaming

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

As the director of Curiouser I get to help design games with studios from around the world, but it's always a special treat to get to work with world-class talent right here in Maine. From Away Games @fromawaygames.bsky.social Artwork is from their brilliant CCO, Chuck Carter (MYST, Disney, etc)

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

As hard as game design is, and the business is, sometimes, you get to design a treasure map on the moon. The upside is WAY up there! 🌝 (CREDIT: no prompting, this image is from JPL www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia00...)

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Always play your own games! I spent a wonderful night with client and friend @sam.bsky.social in his new game SPACEBAR! Even though we were separated by thousands of miles, we had an amazing time riding giant moons, talking to AIs, and chatting. And look at that 2 story game cabinet! 🕹️😍

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Post: AI generated this from a single prompt! Everyone: We did know that.

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

As an ARG designer, red-teaming is my favorite! For those that don't know, "red teaming" is being the (gender neutral) bad guy. The opposition. The enemy. For a recent game I got to design some misinformation about a fictitious outbreak of dengue. (EVERYTHING HERE IS FAKE!) #ARG

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Curiouser LLC is consulting with the CDC to create new kinds of serious games. Currently creating a hybrid table top exercise (TTX) engine that uses predictive dynamic system models and other technologies to drive "living" simulations that change and react to player decisions. #seriousgames #cdc

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I was an 80's kid but never did identify with John Hughes. As a kid, this was my Breakfast Club. #IYKYK #cinema

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I hope no one ever sees it, but our new site DOES have a 404 page just in case 😺

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

As social media eats itself, I felt that my company Curiouser needed a more stable home so we took down our "link list" and built ourselves a little website! It's got that new HTML smell 😹 If you're interested in game design please do visit us! #gamedev #gamedesign curiouserinstitute.com

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I'm pretty sure it's this one!

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Happy Birthday Moonshadow! Thanks @jmdematteis.bsky.social Jon J. Muth, Kent Williams, George Pratt, and everyone else not on BlueSky 🌚🌝 #moonshadow

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Four years ago I built an "Ask Ann Landers" app where people could ask advice from famous AI characters. This one was from AI Lovecraft. I miss that app! #AI

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The new AI reasoning model deepseek is insane in the best ways. Showing the reasoning lets me craft the most amazing prompts. I asked it for some ideas for ARGs and I'm not even going to post them because they were so good. And that's a first for me! 🤯 #AI #ARG www.deepseek.com

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Social media is crazy right now. Looks like we'll be re-vamping the website to give us a little more stability. Honestly, for a minute there, I almost thought we were done with websites! 😇

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 18/08/2023

I asked GPT4 to write a story in another vernacular from the lyrics of a famous song. Can you guess it?

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 15/07/2023

I don't need to upgrade my computer. It's fine. It's doing fine.

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 03/05/2023

I’m virtue signaling. But what is the virtue?

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Curiouser LLC @soi.bsky.social · 21/04/2023

Guest lecturing on serious game design at UCSD!

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