Gameful Simulation Interchange Join us for demos, 5-minute talks, and lunch at this open house exploring applied games, simulations, XR, and interactive research.

Gameful Simulations Interchange: Open House

Join us on Monday, March 30, 12-3:30pm at 4th floor of Hunter Student Commons at UCalgary for a fun open house where our students showcase applied games, simulations, XR, and interactive demos! Drop-in friendly!

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Google's new AI 'world model' has seemingly spooked videogame investors, but it's hard to know what it will actually lead to Can auto-generated "worlds" really be exciting?

I regret to inform everyone that the smartest money people out there are, overwhelmingly, dumb as a rock

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Saved! Will use in my game AI class.

AIIDE 2026 The 22nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2026) is the next in an annual series of conferences showcasing interdisciplinary research on modeling,...

We are thrilled to announce that AIIDE-26 will be held at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil from November 9-13, 2026! Paper abstracts due June 19 with full submissions due June 26, 2026. sites.google.com/view/aiide20...

It's mainly in the province of Alberta, the place with the most number of Trump supporters in Canada....

AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that's masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests | Fortune "Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress up layoffs" as good news.

While there is anecdotal evidence of AI affecting layoffs, the macroeconomic data does not support this narrative fortune.com/2026/01/07/a...

There's no legal difference between kidnapping Maduro and kidnapping Mark Carney.

I can't begin to say how bad this is. Putting CEOs instead of AI scientists and Nobel winners on the front page. Wow. These CEOs deserve no recognition.

And the image itself looks so AI generated. It fits, I suppose.

I don't know about your institution but here salary increases are tied to performance, and teaching performance is an important part of that evaluation. So there is at least something penalizing checking out.

Had a fantastic opportunity to join CBC News Radio’s "Alberta at Noon" with host Kathleen Petty. We explored the future of artificial intelligence and dug into the questions and concerns many Albertans have about how AI is affecting different parts of our lives. Full show: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

The IEEE Conference on Games (CoG) 2026 CfP is out! Will be in Madrid, Spain, 1-4 September 2026

Full paper deadline: 17 March 2026

#AIIDE25 wrapped! Thanks to everyone who made this year’s @aiide.bsky.social such a success. We’ll be back soon with announcements for ’26’s location and call, plus the ‘25 recordings. But for now I’m going to turn off my brain for 48 hours.

And now, closing off the conference, we have the closing remarks!

This was the most attended in-person AIIDE since 2008, with 17* papers and 21 posters!

And with the end of the last paper session, we go to the StarCraft competition by Dave Churchill (photo missing, apologies) and the Workshop Report from Richard Zhao! @richardzhao.bsky.social

Some interesting stats here, glad to see EXAG is thriving!

So good to have Jonathan Schaeffer back for the final keynote on AI in games #AIIDE25

Cosmic Express on the stage at AIIDE 2025! @draknek.bsky.social

Matt McConnell gives his presentation on the Adaptive Problem Solving Game (with genetic algorithm) at the AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment! #AIIDE25

Here's his published paper: doi.org/10.1609/aiid...

Here's a video demo: m.youtube.com/watch?v=qJOb...

Just great to hear from @luked.bsky.social on AI from Take-Two at #AIIDE25

My student Mahdi (with co-author Parsa) gives his presentation on creating more stable Angry Birds game levels at the AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment #AIIDE25

Here's the published paper: doi.org/10.1609/aiid...

That's only possible for the size of the conference. Any bigger and it would be difficult.

It is so nice to see these papers and authors been honoured with the test of time. Well deserved indeed! #AIIDE25

Acceptance rates at #AIIDE25 . Looks great this year!

Quality is going up (subjective but I totally agree!) #AIIDE25

Excited to start the first day of the main conference #AIIDE25 !

It is Temporal Convolutional Network, not RL.

And we're back with INT! INT is just a single poster session this time, but I'm glad it's sticking around.

Very interesting history of the #AIIDE EXAG workshop by Mike Cook who organized the first EXAG.

Open question at the @exag.bsky.social speculative game jam at #AIIDE25 : can you implement generative AI in a game as a game mechanic and not make it into a chatbot? Can you generate data ethically and consensually?

Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues in Edmonton this week for AIIDE! I'll be trying my hand at live tweeting the paper sessions at both the main conference and EXAG/INT, which I'll try to keep in this big reply thread (starting off tomorrow). @aiide.bsky.social @exag.bsky.social