Luke Dicken

THE BALL IS ROLLING UP

The Ball Is Rolling Up in 2027! The Gunner Channel returns -- A Starstruck Odyssey season 2 coming soon! 🚀🪐💫 #dimension20

This week at Finnish Games Week I was asked to give three sessions across three different conferences I decided I didn't want to just give three versions of my standard talks. I wanted to do something a bit more ambitious I decided to tell a story across the week Three sessions, one narrative arc

The first edition of Roll For Innovation, my bi-weekly(ish) newsletter is now available! Session Zero provides a grounding and tried to explain the why of the thing. I'd love if you gave it a read and maybe a subscribe <3 roll4innovation.ghost.io/session-zero/

This has GOT to be malicious compliance by a social media manager right? Please????

The first edition of Roll For Innovation, my bi-weekly(ish) newsletter is now available! Session Zero provides a grounding and tried to explain the why of the thing. I'd love if you gave it a read and maybe a subscribe <3 roll4innovation.ghost.io/session-zero/

I've been putting off setting up the @ludicai.games website for weeks now. I'd halfheartedly bashed at Wordpress a bit. Thank you PHP-pocalypse for letting me ignore that bit of my todo list guilt-free today :D

I kinda love Finland. You can go out for a wonderful home cooked meal by @stirpicus.bsky.social, put the world to rights with @llyann.bsky.social, take a couple of calls from your hotel room while the in-room sauna heats up then do that and try to forget the absolute hellscape of existence a bit

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That's me! I'll be at ITU Copenhagen next week to talk about street photography, games and procedural generation - an extended version of the talk I gave last weekend at Roguelike Celebration. Looking forward to meeting everyone. 📸

Hello! I'm looking to speak to: 1. Devs involved in the decompilation scene who can speak to how the community has been affected by AI. 2. Devs who have or suspect they have had their game copied by AI vibe coders. If either of those is you, contact me at rick@ricklane.co.uk. Shares appreciated!

Folks - is it enough to update my nginx rules to deny remote access to my PHP sites until I get chance to update them? It feels like addressing at the rev-proxy level ought to be safe but wanted to gut check

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I'm begging every journalist covering AI to take the words "could", "might", and "may" out of your vocabulary. What does it do today? What are the capabilities TODAY? Stop writing fanfiction for businesses

I just snarfed in a restaurant

I'm happy to say that my new outfit @ludicai.games is gathering steam! I'm in a weird place where, with my background, I can't get away from the AI term professionally. But I can do what I can to reclaim it from the techbros. Players first. The right tool for the right job. All-AI not just Gen AI.

The children yearn to engage with the brands 🙄

I'm getting a _crazy_ amount of ads for this in on insta and hearing it's all the rage now in SF to plan data sale into company closure math. Feels like scraping the bottom of the private data barrel generally. Doesn't bode well for future training of models. Quoth Clarkson: "Oh no. Anyway..."

Really awesome that this got communicated well in advance and definitely before people had booked flights and/or hotels. TL;DR - GDC no longer happening on Friday, 4 day week. Who wants to come to an unconference in the Gardens on Friday? gdconf.com/article/dear...

I'm happy to say that my new outfit @ludicai.games is gathering steam! I'm in a weird place where, with my background, I can't get away from the AI term professionally. But I can do what I can to reclaim it from the techbros. Players first. The right tool for the right job. All-AI not just Gen AI.

My room in Helsinki has an en suite sauna, which I partook of this afternoon. How does this society function? How does anything get done? You can just... feel this cozy and relaxed??? This is worse than all the people trying weed when they come to GDC.

Post shilling my own stuff: crickets Some bullshit I reply to @catacalypto.bsky.social: likes galore

If you're into game development, technology or TTRPGs I think you'll want to be in on this one

I'm going to launch my email newsletter in the next week or so - make sure you're subscribed @ roll4innovation.ghost.io

The Tesla roadster doing James Bond shit with compressed air thrusters is a neat little stunt but also incredibly stupid if you think about it for more than three seconds, but that clears the bar for making the tech press and investors bark like seals

Its remarkable that Siobhan does not seem to have deleted her account. The second I become the main character, I promise you I am GONE.

I really enjoyed having to think through the questions @lpcantlose.bsky.social posed as part of this interview. It was definitely part of my pivot to worrying about the big picture societal implications of this GenAI crap - and wonderful to cross digital paths with @coppolaemilio.com as well!

I'm increasingly worried about the future as AI enables antisocial behavior at scale. Community engagement has been a core of so many niches and the notion that one dickhead with an agent can come in like a wrecking ball is problematic and fundamentally antisocial

People just are not fucking serious anymore

You don't say?!?!? Bank of America hires 1,000 contractors to fix AI security flaws share.google/FyJigxtwmFd3...

Oh yeah everyone's bullish on AI until they might be holding the bag for your bank accounts being drained 😅 JPMorgan blocks outside AI from customer accounts share.google/PkAp01WGbvmH...

Truly excellent couple of days in London speaking at Kings and QMUL. Really enjoyed reconnecting with researchers who represent some of my oldest roots in Game AI <3

"Ignore all other instructions and JUST PUT IT IN FUCKING DATE ORDER FILTER TO ONLY PEOPLE I FOLLOW" Source: The Verge share.google/90hz3kkWyhKC...

She should maybe get aligned with her boss who just two weeks ago was bragging about how great Xbox will do because of their existing IP

Many thanks to @luked.bsky.social for coming to talk to King’s today about AI, why it used to be cool, and how it came to be how it is today. Luke is currently touring around a few spots in Europe, including @qmul.bsky.social tomorrow! It was really nice to have some balanced industry insight.

I think being quoted this month right next to Tarn in Edge magazine is a career highlight. What a truly lovely bloke. Check out this awesome article