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Narrative person. He/him. 🇫🇷🇷🇪🏳️‍🌈

Writer & Designer for games: Night Call, Flat Eye, Dordogne, Family Bash, Astral Ascent, and many more.

My narrative agencywww.acte-zero.com
A kind of blog about my next personal projecthttps://mastodon.gamedev.place/@yeti/109299331009058147

This year's speakers:

* Chella Ramanan (Massive Entertainment, 3-Fold Games) [Sat]

* Tom Jubert (Freelance on various including: SubNautica, Talos Principle, The Swapper, Penumbra series, FTL and others) [Sat]

* Khan (Ubisoft Reflections, formerly Deep Silver Dambuster) [Sun]

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Fascinating article on the creator of ELIZA (which it turns out is pretty much the least interesting thing he did) and the limitations, and the cult, of AI.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/25/joseph-weizenbaum-inventor-eliza-chatbot-turned-against-artificial-intelligence-ai

"Living well with computers would mean putting them in their proper place: as aides to calculation, never judgment."

Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI

Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans

The Guardian
Just gonna leave this here.
If you're going to Develop:Brighton next week and want to hang around and/or discuss bu-si-ness stuff, hit me up!!
Bienvenue tout le monde !

We spoke to Games Industry Biz about our creative process, where we’re at, what makes an inkle game an inkle game - and a tiny bit about our upcoming Develop talk the theme of which was polled here on masto.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/the-fluctuating-scope-of-inkles-games

The fluctuating scope of Inkle's games

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox At first glance, A Highland Song is atypic…

GamesIndustry.biz
Si j'avais un seul conseil pour celles et ceux qui reviennent, c'est suivez plein de monde. C'est je seul moyen de peupler son fil.
Sachant qu'une partie non négligeable de ce qui occupe nos fils Twitter - indignation et quote RT sur les contenus de droite - n'existe pas.

I want to expand more on the comedy of errors that led to the eviction of #Twitter from their Boulder, Colorado office.

The story that leads up to this building even existing is bizarre and hilarious, so here goes...

A thread 🧵

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/judge-ruled-twitter-must-be-evicted-from-colorado-office-over-unpaid-rent/

Twitter evicted from office amid lawsuits over unpaid rent and cleaning bills

Twitter evicted in Boulder, Colo., still faces unpaid-rent suit at HQ in California.

Ars Technica
them: "it's short and you don't do much"
us: "thank you"
Let's be honest: working on a subtle and gentle game about small things and seeing a lot of criticism about how small the game feels is the kind of weird whiplash you get from this world.