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christophsalge.bsky.social
Maker of Artificial Intelligence, Player of Games, Citizen of the World, Student of Philosophy, Writer of Pretentious Lists. Reader in AI in Games at the University of Hertfordshire.
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Game Recommendation: The Roottrees are Dead. theroottreesaredead.com Similar vibes to ``Case of the Golden Idol'', or even ``Return of the Obra Dinn''. I investigation game where you feel like you are actually investigating.

Happy to announce that Niels has joined the GDMC organizer team - we are now getting ready for the 2025 Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft. gendesignmc.wikidot.com

I'm pleased to announce that I've become part of the Generative Design in Minecraft (GDMC) @gendesignmc.bsky.social competition organisation board, joining @christophsalge.bsky.social and @vherve.bsky.social

I was sick recently so I ended up watching lengthy Games studies video essays on YouTube - and I thought I would share three with you here:

We 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...

www.lexacademic.com/blog/ A nice blog about doing a Phd, working in academia, writing, etc, - really capturing the kind of conversations I have with my Phd students and colleauges. If you want to know more about the academic work, or get another perspective; check it out. @lexacademic.bsky.social

Having arguments about the nature of language, one cat picture at a time.

Our latest work is now available on Arxiv: lnkd.in/dMEaUzgB Normative Feeling: Socially Patterned Affective Mechanisms with @stavyros.bsky.social and Daniel Polani

Dr Simon McCools take on shallow safety alignment and how it affects classrooms. Given that Simon has years of experience as a teacher, and a Phd in AI/ML, it might be worth to take a look: www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-sim...

Was just checking out the cooking games sale on steam, and realized, I don't really enjoy cooking games, even though. or maybe because, I like cooking IRL. Question for the #Hivemind: Is there anything you really like doing (and actually do) both in a game and IRL? (repost from x)

With 5 days to go, we've unlocked stretch goal #2 for our Goal State Kickstarter! A feature-length deep dive of DOOM's AI and gameplay source code. We only 25 more backers to get us to the next deep dive on Quake 3, and 148% funding for Unreal engine tutorials! www.kickstarter.com/projects/aia...

Favorite photo I took in 2024. I think I was in a mood for coziness. #cozy

My wintertime game recommendation this year is: The rise of the golden idol. store.steampowered.com/app/2716400/... A detective game where you puzzle out what happened based on clues. Uniquely, to solve the case you have to actually figure out stuff, rather than just finding hidden objects.

Hello everyone, I am now also on BlueSky. But what to write on my first ever post, so much pressure - just like the last time, feels like only yesterday I joined that other micro posting site. What amazing things will we see here, what cool adventures will we have ... wait, is there a character limi