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Simon Carless
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Simon Carless
@simoncarless
Founder, @GameDiscoverCo. Board @GameHistoryOrg. Newsletter: newsletter.gamediscover.co (Not on X any more!)
Joined December 2008
- PSA: Valve has been quietly banning newly submitted Steam games using AI-created art assets - if submitters can't prove they have rights for the assets used to train the algorithms: reddit.com/r/aigamedev/co…
- Want to know how much $ the devs of those 'free' Epic Games Store games got, & how many copies were grabbed? Here's the first 9 months to September 2019. 👀
- Outer Wilds fans, looks like some DLC ('Echoes Of The Eye') unexpectedly popped up in Steam records: steamdb.info/app/1622100/
- What happens if you run BJ Blazkowicz (Wolfenstein 3D) through the Face Depixelizer neutral network. Dying.Replying to @Rob__Milliken and @h_bashWith default settings, I got this result.
- 'Japanese video game designers sitting at their desks in the '90s' is my new aesthetic: shmuplations.com/nextgen/
- Don't mind me, just getting warmed up for a possible Watch Dogs 3 announce at E3 by consuming the silliest memes.
- Celebrating Nintendo's consoles via miniature art pieces - amazing work from @tanaka_tatsuya. (Via: blog.attractmo.de/post/623753169….)
- Replying to @simoncarlessUpdate: looks like AI-created text is also being flagged in some cases:Replying to @GreyAlien6) It's not just art, it's text too (source trusted by me):
- Steam just added 'Boomer Shooter' as an official tag (OK boomer!): store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Boomer…
- Great anecdote from Yu Suzuki about how they set the color palette for Space Harrier: shmuplations.com/spaceharrier/
- The entire history of video games by platform, visualized by @MobyGames, Jan. 2019 version: mobygames.com/forums/dga,2/d…
- How China-specific is interest in Black Myth: Wukong? A lot: @gamediscoverco's current estimate of its Steam country split for players is 88.1% China, 3% U.S., 1.6% Hong Kong, 1% Japan.
- Uh wait, so the 'cute' delivery bots carrying food you sometimes see in Berkeley don't use AI for navigation - each one is being piloted remotely from Colombia? Boggle:
