Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026I've written a book! Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves is the story of procedural generation - the tech behind games like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress. It's about how it works, the games that use it, and the art and magic behind it. Out May 7th, in bookshops: linktr.ee/next_level 🎲🔮 50595179
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workNiels NTG @niels-ntg.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Announcing the 2026 @gendesignmc.bsky.social Minecraft Settlement Generation Competition! Make PCG systems in Minecraft, where the challenge is to write an algorithm that generates a settlement that dynamically adapts to any terrain. More info + Discord link: gendesignmc.wikidot.com/wiki:2026-se... 044
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for worknixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 10/12/2025"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons. 55112706136
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workTransparency @transparency.bsky.social · 20/11/2025It's Transgender Day of Remembrance. Today we remember and honor those who we've lost 🏳️⚧️ 2785138
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 27/10/2025PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else! 🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st 🔮 itch.io/jam/procjamitch.ioPROCJAM - The Procedural Generation JamA game jam from 2025-11-21 to 2025-12-01 hosted by PROCJAM. Let's Make Something! PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is a creative coding jam about making things that make things. This normally... 312265
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 21/10/2025happy tuesday everyone 2303
Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for work @vherve.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Our latest preprint: "Landmarks, Monuments, and Beacons: Understanding Generative Calls to Action" is now available on arXiv! It is a nice conclusion to my own PhD, and summarise nicely all the observations and research we did through the last years. w/ @warpefelt.com and @christophsalge.bsky.socialarxiv.orgLandmarks, Monuments, and Beacons: Understanding Generative Calls to ActionAlgorithmic evaluation of procedurally generated content struggles to find metrics that align with human experience, particularly for composite artefacts. Automatic decomposition as a possible solutio... 150
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workKonstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Ex Novo 2nd edition (digital edition) is out, and you can already get it on the game's itchio & DriveThruRPG pages. If you have already bought Ex Novo, you already have access to the 2nd edition. 🏗️ itchio: sharkbombs.itch.io/ex-novo 🏗️ DriveThruRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3... 1227
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Congratulations to Dr Hervé! Her work on procedural generation and Minecraft has been really inspirational, and will have a long legacy. You should hire her - she’s an incredible researcher but also a seasoned industry game dev too! 0184
Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for work @vherve.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Life update: I am still looking for work, but I am now a doctor, which make it way more fancy 😊 4203
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workDelaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Cisgender folk, if you see a before and after comparison picture of a transgender person, I want you to focus in on the eyes. The dead, heavy before eyes vs the bright, life filled after eyes should communicate why we do this. 614622
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workpaulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Adam Ellis 411932
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workAI and Games Conference @conference.aiandgames.com · 04/06/2025The AI and Games Conference returns 3–4 Nov 2025 at Goldsmiths, London! Early bird tickets are live + call for submissions open till July. For more details check out @aiandgames.com newsletter link below. www.aiandgames.com/p/announcing... Contact us for group rates or sponsor details! 074
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workDr Victoire Hervé - Looking for work @vherve.bsky.social · 30/10/2024Just a reminder that I am about to complete my Phd in Procedural Content Generation, and I am looking for a job :') I have about 5 years of experience as a programmer in AA and AAA studios, I worked on custom engines, Unity, and Unreal. I can work full time, part time, as a consultant, anything! 33913
Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for work @vherve.bsky.social · 30/05/2025I have just submitted my PhD thesis 🥹🥹🥳 It’s crazy how time flies. When I started my PhD, I was still a boy, and now I am a grown woman 😳 070
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workEverything Procedural Conference @everythingproc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Help our dear organiser, Bojan Endrovski, with his research and fill out the following Procedural Level Generation Survey: lnkd.in/efYNTqdE The outcome of the survey will be shared and all developed tools will be open-source. Reposting or sharing it with others is appreciated! 021
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workHilary Mason @hilarymason.com · 16/05/2025Of course they did! If you have brand safety concerns, you should never trust raw LLM output. 4143
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workDeadkat 🥐 @deadkat.bsky.social · 10/05/2025The european citizens' initiative to ban conversion therapies in the EU only has 250k signatures and needs to amass 1 million in the next 7 days... If you live in the EU, please sign it (you can't otherwise); if you don't, please share it around. 3232684554
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workIronlily @ironlilyart.com · 02/10/2024VOGUE cover style Lady Johnna 137067
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025The creative AI community actually did AI-generated recipes in the 2010s, without LLMs or anything like that. They had a lot of fun with it - Simon Colton and Dan Ventura even cooked a bunch of them with an actual chef at an exhibition, and they had fun silly names made by a little Markov generator. 1376
Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for work @vherve.bsky.social · 25/04/2025I am currently finishing the write up of my PhD, and let me tell you that Christoph has been an amazing supervisor through the last 4 years, and probably the best I have heard of! If you are considering doing a PhD in CC, it’s a crazy opportunity ☺️ 020
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 17/04/2025Anti-trans policies don't just hurt trans people. They hurt anyone who doesn't fit neatly into a pink box or a blue one. And they hurt the rest of us by creating pressure to ensure that we always fit neatly into our box. 16999366
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workDelaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 05/02/2025 11137
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workinnes mck @innes.bsky.social · 04/02/2025diyhrt.info 02314
Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for work @vherve.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Hear me out: a ttrpg where you eat fortune cookies instead of rolling dices. 181
Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for work @vherve.bsky.social · 29/01/2025AI ? Corrupt governments ? mega-corps ? Genocide in plain sight ? War ? Dead internet ? Body augmentation getting illegal ? Time to wake up Samuraï, we have a city to burn... 050
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workChristoph Salge @christophsalge.bsky.social · 23/01/2025We had David Tree over in the ASG lab at the University of Hertfordshire, talking about his work in digitizing and using AI to analyze the ``Warlock of the Fire Mountain'' book. Can we use evolutionary AI to determine if and what story shapes a book has? researchprofiles.herts.ac.uk/en/persons/d... 021
Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for work @vherve.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Attention to anyone wanting to submit a PCG paper. We've extended the deadline for the PCG workshop at #FDG2025 to January 31st. Looking forward to meeting you there! 🚀 020
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workCNN @cnn.com · 07/01/2025Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of Marine Le Pen and the defining figure of France's postwar far-right movement, dies aged 96cnn.comJean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s far-right National Front party, dies at 96 | CNNJean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right party, the National Front, has died at the age of 96, according to French network BFMTV. 10926957
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workproc_gen @procgen.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Something that I think is particularly interesting about how the original Elite's procedural generation works to make the galaxies is that it creates different textures at different scales. Let me unpack what that means... 27420
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/12/2024The leaked prerender scene featuring a trans story line that Disney/Pixar removed from their new show Win or Lose. (sped up a bit to meet the upload limit) 16895993099
Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for work @vherve.bsky.social · 05/12/20244 years of discussing the complexity of level design and game environnements, but since the beginning it was just an endless flow of noisy images blend together stochasticly 🤯🤯🤯 130
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workKate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Are you looking for an internship (undergrad or grad!), can legally work in London, and want to make experimental work with LEGO bricks, digital *stuff*, and creativity? Consider applying to my team! www.lego.com/en-gb/career...lego.comLEGO DESiGN iNTERNSHIP - Careers - LEGO.comLEGO DESiGN iNTERNSHIP: Job Description Join the LEGO Design Internship Talent Pool Are you a student who loves being creative and has a curiosity about design?... 25131
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workGregorios Kythreotis @eteogreg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024My favourite level design and environment art resource and the best website on the internet is still noclip.website 551582407
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workHenrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com · 21/11/2024Hey! I'm a computer scientist exploring how humans interact with AI, focusing on embodied AI in games. I offer expert consulting in R&D, org development, and professional training. More info: www.warpefelt.se/consultingwarpefelt.seConsulting — Henrik Warpefelt, PhD 061
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workTommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com · 15/11/2024#GoalState goes live in just under 2 hours time. Join me from 14:30 GMT as we livestream my pushing the big red button. It's not big, nor is it red, but y'know, it sounds scary. www.youtube.com/live/ASXhuqs...youtube.comYouTubeShare your videos with friends, family, and the world 061
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workAlan Zucconi @alanzucconi.com · 09/11/2024It's never too late to learn Game AI! 🦾🤖 Over the past year I created an online course that teaches classical AI in to modern videogames, covering both theory and practice, from Behaviour Trees to Neural Networks. 🧠 (free trial link below 🧵👇) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qED1...youtube.com🎮 Game AI ● Course PresentationYouTube video by Alan Zucconi 15310
Reposted by Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for workTommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com · 14/11/2024IT ALL KICKS OFF TOMORROW! #GoalState is finally happening! Accessible, practical, relevant material on AI for game development. The anxiety is high and I'm pushing through! All we need is 200 awesome people to back the course and and it's funded. Do you know 200 awesome people? I think I do... 062
Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for work @vherve.bsky.social · 07/11/2024I will be attending the @aiandgames.bsky.social conference tonight and tomorrow. Come say hi 👋☺️ #AiandGamesConference 031
Dr Victoire Hervé - Looking for work @vherve.bsky.social · 30/10/2024Just a reminder that I am about to complete my Phd in Procedural Content Generation, and I am looking for a job :') I have about 5 years of experience as a programmer in AA and AAA studios, I worked on custom engines, Unity, and Unreal. I can work full time, part time, as a consultant, anything! 33913