As the #GamesFromIreland Steam Event begins to wind down, we’d like to highlight some more of the amazing games made in Ireland. From the gothic co-op horror of Eyes of Hellfire to the cozy stop-motion adventure Éalu, Ireland continues to offer games that can’t be found anywhere else.
This is mostly a joke, but there was a point where, due to a bug, the agent picked a square that had already been taken. In my Xs&Os addled state, I did briefly think I'd reinvented the game. Balatro-level success here I come!
Then I took a breath and realised, "wait... this... this is nothing"
poster for the sopranos in the style of disney's "that's so raven". pink velvet background with a scowling tony soprano covering most of it, arms crossed. in the bottom left there is the logo: disney that's SO PRANOS the "so / pranos" is in the sopranos font
this came to me in a dream
FromSoft NPC voice: Ahhh.... the bottom right square.... the site of many a triumph... and.... as many a tragedy
Big jar
Look at this great jar I found. Gonna roll into it
To the trained/Xs&Os-pilled eye, this simple grid of nine squares contains an entire world of strategies and counter-strategies
Spent the weekend trying to learn about #ReinforcementLearning by training an agent to play Xs & Os / Tic-Tac-Toe.
An unexpected side effect is that by playing dozens of games of Xs & Os over a 48-hour period, I have Stockholm syndromed myself into believing that it is the greatest game of all time
VS Code terminal printouts of some code running. The last to printout are: "Rolf is DEAD" "Rolf is starting their turn"
What is Rolf may never die
Another test of the script, this time Rolf is actually allowed to attack. It's not looking good for Rolf, whose armour is destroyed by Urvarg's last attack.
Tired: Will the French guy be able to stop the Painter Lady in Clear Obscure or whatever
Wired: Who will triumph in the epic 'big sword' battle between Urvarg and Rolf
A screenshot of Visual Studio Code which is showing a very basic game written in Python. The script is running in the terminal in the bottom half of the screen. The print statements describe what is happening in the "game". Two characters are introduced. Urvarg is introduced with the line "It's Urvarg, baby!". Rolf is introduced with "It's Rolf! Keep Rolfing Rolfing Rolfing Rolfing" in a very vague reference to Limp Bizkit. Both then introduce themselves with variations of "Rarg, I'm a scary guy, watch out for me!!! OOOooohh". Urvarg then attacks Rolf 5 times. After the 3rd one, Rolf is on 0 HP, so he should be dead, but the script isn't sophisticated enough to pick up on that.
I have created the world's first and only "QUINTUPLE A" gaming experience #gamedev #AAAAA
(Yes I am using this thread to workshop a LinkedIn post. Here's my original "not safe for LinkedIn" draft for the cool kids of Bluesky)
If you're interested in reading something about AI that doesn't talk to you like you're a dog then I would highly recommend this book!
The book gives a great summary of these arguments from both a technical and a more philosophical or abstract perspective.
There's also some really good material on key Machine Learning topics like Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision and Sentiment Analysis.
An informative and enlightening read!
It's from 2019, so LLMs don't really factor in, at least not explicitly. But that's part of what I liked about it! It's good to be reminded that "AI" as a field wasn't invented 3 years ago and that there's a rich tradition of people thinking about and assessing this subject stretching back decades
The cover of a book called Artificial Intelligence A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell. There's a pixelated picture of the author with numbers on each square in reference to how Computer Vision works
If you're on the hunt for a last-minute Christmas present for the tech-head in your life, I would highly recommend Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell. It was one of the best books I read this year! #book #ai #notThatAiThough
TOTAL WAR WARHAMMER 40K
I'd love it if we could get @imirt.bsky.social 's Curator Page on #Steam to 1000 followers before #Christmas !
#IrishGameDev #IndieDev #GameDev #IrishCreatives #IrishGameDomination #SpeirGhorm #IndieGame
store.steampowered.com/curator/4145...
Well that's embarrassing 🤦♂️ thanks very much
Exterior, the Richard Hoggart building at Goldsmiths University. You can just about make out the blue conference banners (I'm not very good at taking pictures)
A big standee in the shape of the AI and Games orange mascot... thing. Is it a... headcrab from Half-Life. It's very cute, whatever it is
Had a great first day at @conference.aiandgames.com! Lots of great talks, and I even got some cool game recommendations out of it!
Going wild with all these starter packs, like Jabba inviting hordes of new courtiers into my lair, ready to capriciously throw them into the rancor pit (read: press "unfollow") the instant they in any way cease to amuse me
Who robbed the Louvre right answers only
Hey folks, I've added Metaphor: ReFantazio to my Steam curator page with a nice big thumbs up. I probably would've added it sooner, but it's been a game that I've kept for myself and have been enjoying a little at a time over a long time. It's pretty great! 👍
store.steampowered.com/app/2679460/...
i wanted to collect links people are posting to good polygon-adjacent sites + ways to follow/support folks who've been laid off from there - almost certainly extremely incomplete but maybe it'll be helpful? haunts.neocities.org/polygon
Two Point Museum: it's great!
aftermath.site/two-point-muse...
Balatro 27% of total playtime, started in December
Thank you, Steam Year In Review, for confirming that I may have a Problem
Otto from The Simpsons captioned "My name is Otto. I love to Balatro". In the original scene he's in an AA meeting
Muttering this constantly to myself and anyone who'll listen the last few weeks #Balatro
OHHH!, aye, watch where you're going there pally I'm squatting on this username ovah here