Game dev friends, following up the whole Unity debacle, how accessible to non-programmers is Godot? I have some basic knowledge of C# and can somewhat fiddle around with code, but Unity definitely made it easy to circumvent coding limitations.
I printed out my PhD, except it's a playable 45-cards deck for game design. If you're in London next week and want to give it a try, you should come to
@iGGiPhD 's conference at QMUL, I'll be demo-ing it there 👀
https://www.iggi2023.org/schedule-1
iGGi 2023Day 7 of thesis writing retreat: I have successfully included a reference to Saw in at least one of my chapters. How many more can I sneak in before anyone notices and tries to stop me.
Kenyan content moderators who reviewed incredibly graphic material to train ChatGPT are asking the Kenyan government to investigate the exploitative conditions they were subject to, which included “psychological trauma, low pay and abrupt dismissal.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/02/ai-chatbot-training-human-toll-content-moderator-meta-openai
#tech #chatgpt #ai
‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models
Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals
Just had my final Thesis Advisory Panel of my whole PhD, and it's a little emotional, but I'm also ready to sleep and play Hollow Knight and RDR2 for an entire week.
I am headed to
#Develop tomorrow with a bunch of other
@iGGiPhD researchers! If you would like to meet up to talk about games and... more games, come and say hi at our booth, or let's go for coffee by the beach!
With Develop:Brighton happening next week, we thought we would share who's attending from iGGi this year! Looking forward to seeing folks there at our iGGi stand at the Expo!
There are times where I want to thank my brain for being neurodivergent, and having a tendency to easily hyperfocus when I have app. 112 500 words worth of interview data to transcribe feels like one of those times.
We are so excited to finally invite you to our next iGGi Con!
Find out how to register at http://iggi2023.org
More details coming soon!
iGGi Conference 2023 (London, UK) - Your Future in Games Research
The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games & Game Intelligence (iGGi) is the world's largest PhD research in games programme. The annual IGGI conference showcases students' work.
Based at Queen Mary Uni of London & Uni of York, iGGi collaborates closely with 80+ industry partners.
I started playing Hollow Knight and Red Dead Redemption 2 five years after they respectively came out, if I stick to this pattern I'll start the new Zelda in 2028. Can't wait.
Paris Marx
iGGi PhD