It's itch.io Creator Day! That means it's a great day to check out things made by some K&P folks: Younès: pyrofoux.itch.io Florence: florencesmithnicholls.itch.io Mads: pyjamads.itch.io 🔪 🖌 <3 itch.io

Check out Florence's excellent blog post about environmental storytelling and how it relates to the history of real spaces. "Be careful about leaving skulls near toilets."

Want to know how the AI boom failed to help us make better games and how we could move on from that? Come to our GDC Talk on Monday, it's the first of the day! 🔍schedule.gdconf.com/session/indepe… #gdc2022

It's time to Choose Your Own Misadventure! 🇵🇸 Younès and I will be giving our GDC Official talk at 9:30am on Monday 21st! We'll be discussing the good, the bad, and the unexpected in games AI...come along to see how the story ends! 🗡️🖌️ tinyurl.com/y4tkkp2k

SOON #GDC2022

#WhatAGameDevLooksLike Greetings, Traveler. I'm Younès, a queer arab indie dev and a creative AI researcher as well. My speciality is inventing new way for games to make you go "I'm not sure what's happening, but I love it." Be like a telescope: Watch. This. Space. 💫

Missed our GDC talk? Good news: our vision for how we could design new types of games with AI (*while* avoiding exploiting people) will be livestreamed for free on Wednesday. Take your tickets now: …uture-for-gamedesign.eventbrite.co.uk

Absolute top-notch "tap the sign" potential on the closing slide of Florence Smith Nicholls and 🇵🇸 Younès's extremely good talk Choose Your Own Misadventure: the Future of AI for Game Design

Since the start of my PhD working on ANGELINA, the most common question I got asked was "Can I download this and have it make games at home?" Happy to report, after ten years, the answer is now: yes. ✨Announcing: Puck! possibilityspace.org/blog-puck/

Hey. Have you heard which game got nominated at A MAZE., next to NORCO and Sable? It's... SUPER IS HOT, THE RULE-BREAKING PUZZLE FPS 🕹 pyrofoux.itch.io/super-is-hot

What can AI do for game design? How can it go wrong, and how can we do it better? Learn about all of this and more from Florence Smith Nicholls and 🇵🇸 Younès in their talk, Choose Your Own Misadventure: AI-Powered Futures for Game Design, now available on YouTube! 📺 youtube.com/watch?v=qYxRTo…

Great news: mike cook and I's Elden Ring paper has been accepted to FDG 2023 Conference! See you in Athens! 🥳🏦

New Doc in the house!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 Introducing Mads Johansen the Doctor of Video Games! Congratulations Mads!

Excited to share this piece on the archaeology and history of Elden Ring! I was very glad to get the opportunity to write about the political implications of lore in the game. Thanks to Holly Nielsen and @ArchaeologyGame for chatting with me. #archaeogaming #FromSoftware

New Talk - Optimists At Heart: Why Do We Research Game AI? What motivates Game AI researchers? What hidden motivations drive our work? And what big external forces might be affecting them? A brief 15 min summary of my vision paper at IEEE CoG 2022. youtube.com/watch?v=PPLSZy…

Excited to announce that mike cook's and I's paper "The Dark Souls of Archaeology: Recording Elden Ring" has won a Best Paper Award FDG 2023 Conference! I'm so proud of this collaboration, and can't wait to do more work like this! fdg2022.org/conference-bes…

🎥NOW ONLINE 🎥 SUPER IS HOT – Designing Games By Breaking and Combining Others (A MAZE./Berlin 2022) A design talk where I detail how making cursed mashups will make you a better game designer. ↘️↘️↘️ youtube.com/watch?v=m74ZzK…

Probably a good time to reveal my Mastodon form: peoplemaking.games/@florencesn

If needed, you can check my: 🐘 Mastodon, that I don't use yet but might in the future peoplemaking.games/@pyrofoux 🐝 Cohost, to read my game design thoughts and experiments, in avant-première cohost.org/pyrofoux