Halo co-creator says ICE’s Halo-themed recruitment ad “makes me sick” Another Halo maker says ad "ought to offend every Halo fan, regardless of political orientation." ALSO: A developer whose game just launched on Xbox slams Microsoft’s silence

ICE recruits gamers with "Halo" memed ads. Halo co-creator says the ad "makes me sick".

Agree! #halo #ice #videogames

I think sometimes UX is the window into the dead-eyed soul of this new crop of tech companies.

I signed up for OpenRouter and after creating my account a marketing survey popped up on every page with no way to cancel it.

It's hard, as a UX designer, to convey how creepy this is.

#UX #AI

The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical YouTube video by Warhammer 40,000

The video game musical no one saw coming :)

#immersiveart #April1

I love PAX East. It’s a conference where you are encouraged to actually play games. Prototypes, 40 year old games, TTRPGs, AAA titles, and everything else. Just thousands of people playing games together. #paxeast #games #❤️

Heading to PAX East this Friday if anyone wants to chat about AI and game design :)

Lol 😆 I just love creators unafraid of cringe and criticism. It’s like sci-fi from back in the day.

@trishacode.com!!

I don’t know how to make this sound as exciting as it feels. But an AI can make all kinds of software just by asking it.

You don’t have to buy anything.

The feature set is whatever you want it to be.

No ads.

No subscriptions.

Just 15 minutes and a few bucks.

#AI #genai

Not them I hope.

Gamers Just Saved the Largest Repository of Retro Games From Closing Forever A massive online repository of retro game files has been saved from being lost, thanks to an army of dedicated video game preservationists.

$6k a month is a ton for a non-profit or individual but it’s nothing for some companies. Some get their storage at cost anyway. Surely as we build all these massive new processing facilities someone can give a little back? Come on! 😤

But did they FedEx the Seumas McNally Grand Prize home or cram it into their luggage? 😝 (one of those Bluesky users that know you now)

Just got back from speaking about live generative AI in games at GDC. What a crowd! AI may not be making a splash at most game conventions but at the developers conference it was EVERYWHERE. I felt right at home here!

AI tools, vibe coding platforms, and games are coming fast!

#AI #gamedev

Getting ready to give my talk on Generative AI and safety at GDC! #ai #gdc

Playing with the Shoggoth: Safety in Games with Generative AI (Presented by GameSafe) | Agenda | GDC Festival of Gaming The GDC Festival of Gaming program blends expert insight with interactive formats designed to spark ideas, sharpen skills, and connect communities.

Excited to share I'll be giving a talk on Safety in Games with Generative AI at GDC this year!

Find out what happens when your "content" is also a content creator! Adversarial creativity ensues.

If you're in town and want to talk about AI in games, let me know. ! ✨

#AI #gamedev #GDC

And yes. I do this every time I see a trailer. It makes me sound crazy, but if I don't write it down it actually happens instantly. I have to get my expectations set so the film maker can do their job and subvert them! 😉

Honestly I kind of hope they don't explain anything!

REALLY seemed from the trailer that they were trying to make it seem like the backrooms were a filed down memory where all of the details were rubbed out with repetition. Not in love with the idea but... I trust Kane!

Let's hope it's not a dream within a dream.

Like save someone, or pull the plug before we all live in the backrooms, or meet your dad who walked out for milk and never came home and ended up here. Or true love! Or these could all be woven into figuring out the backrooms.

The revelation of the memories could also be more general. Like this is how it works. "Brandon didn't have much of a life!"

Even if specific and dramatic, it could also be revealed at any point in the movie and then the movie progresses with a current time conflict to overcome.

Of course that voice-over could be full of crap.

Possibly a cover up. A tragedy that can be milked for money. An unethical experiment. An accident. The setting seems adult, but the original room the trailer showed could be anything. Any house. The founder/inventor, the founder's child, someone who fell into the XXX magnetic field, etc. Roswell 😅

The only thing that can have memories is a person or something with intelligence. So somehow a person, a specific person or thing with a specific memory, is involved in CREATING the backrooms. Or an alien/computer. Either way for drama to increase, it's going to end up being something "emotional".

If memories are important then a movie could follow the trajectory of "Hey what's this?" to "This is weird and dangerous" to "A clue and human emotional content to follow." to "Ah, we have arrived at an explanation that humanizes the backrooms thing without giving away all its secrets."

Could still be an AI-ish cyborgism kind of thing.

If it's a memory, then it suggests a time. An age or date where this memory might have "occured". With flourescent lights and carpets and yellow wallpaper. Or at least not ancient or futuristic.

And this will take us to where the memories came from. A specific event and/or emotional space or place. An origin story.

Memories imply a human element? But the disembodied feeling of liminal spaces could point to a human element out of context. Brain in a jar kind of thing. Ghost in the machine.

The trailer shows the "copy of a copy" effect however. Degradation like a memory of a memory. This points in an entirely different direction? The meaning changes to "the more times it remembers something, the less it does (remember)"

So the movie could go from generic, back to something specific.

Infinite abundance/space. Takes a lot of energy? Do we have that kind of technology? Power source? It would take a lot of suspension of disbelief. Radiation causes superheros kind of suspension of disbelief.

But the trailer kind if up-ends the AI/simulation thing.

Or that we are no-clipping into a different half finished or "learning" reality (simulation) that isn't meant to be used. an experiment. Maybe another dimension altogether.

Maybe we were trying to build it. Infinite office space/living space sounds like something we'd try to do.

It also goes nicely with my backrooms head canon that we are in a video game or simulation and can no-clip into a space that was not finished and isn't supposed to be used (as often happens in games and simulations). To make a simulation of this size it could require an AI or something like it.

Backrooms movie plot thoughts

The backrooms has always reminded me of an AI. Close, but not quite right. The style but too many fingers. Form, but no understanding of the *use*. Close enough. It isn't proc-gen. That would be random and endless, but correct.

#backrooms 🧵

Backrooms | Official Teaser HD | A24 YouTube video by Kane Pixels

It's the Official Teaser in HD of the Kane Pixels BACKROOMS! &^%$ yeah!

#kino #backrooms #lfg

I highly doubt it. The AI's ability to "machine verify" good writing is only one of *many* challenges. I don't even think it's one of the hardest ones IMHO.

In the last 6 years it's been a very disappointing space and not a lot of companies really making it a priority. So probably not "soon".🤷‍♂️