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Yuqian (Uchan) Sun | AI research artist (PhDing) | Artistic AI chatbot dev since 2018 Working on story-crafting #indiegame “1001 Nights” Steam demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2782660/1001_Nights_Demo/ Personal website: https://fakecheese.me

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · Feb 9

Beyond the AI buzz, can we *actually* make a fun and creative #indiegame based on #LLM with considerations? 🤔Here's my try.

🔮 1001 Nights is a story-crafting game where you must survive an AI King by telling stories, based on mid-east folklore.

Steam Demo: store.steampowered.com/app/2782660/...

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thank you!

CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · Sep 9

AI Nüshu has been nominated for the Prix Ars Electronica Digital Humanity Award 🥰 #arselectronica
One last item ticked off my art wishlist before 30.
This project lets AI learn from Chinese women — and invent their own secret language.
calls.ars.electronica.art/2025/prix/wi... #arselectronica

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · Aug 14

Wow Springer mentioned our chapter! @gua-le-ni.com

Springer @springer.springernature.com · Aug 14

'Between Puppet and Actor: Reframing Authorship in This Age of AI Agents', by Yuqian Sun and Stefano Gualeni, examines the conceptual tensions in understanding #AI agents’ role in creative processes, particularly focusing on Large Language Models. bit.ly/4fGwN8U #BookSky

CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · Aug 14

Wow

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · Aug 6

✨Check our book chapter!

Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · Aug 1

"Between Puppet and Actor: Reframing Authorship in This Age of AI Agents": my book chapter with @cheesetalk.bsky.social is finally out with @springernature.com!

Here's a link to the book itself, beautifully edited by @nzagalo.bsky.social and Damian Keller
>> link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... <<

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jul 9

Phraselette is a writing tool/design intervention into AI writing. It provides a palette of word search procedures: find related phrases by style, context, sound, vibe dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

w/ @maxkreminski.bsky.social
@cheesetalk.bsky.social
John Joon Young Chung
Melissa Roemmele
Taewook Kim

Phraselette: A Poet’s Procedural Palette | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

dl.acm.org

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · Jul 2

I got my tiny birthday cake at DiGRA 😭😭😭😭 I’m 28! 🎂 #DiGRA

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · Jun 28

I’m at DiGRA! Welcome to join our discussion on Monday 6:30pm CET 😆 Sign-up here: forms.gle/jmwCWyLQtof5...

cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · Jun 23

I'm one of the keynotes for Big DiGRA this year, and the organizers have invited us to have a public discussion about games in the current moment. It's on Monday June 30th at 6:30pm CET (18:30) which is 12:30pm Eastern. Link below if you want the Zoom information.

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Daniel Vella @danielvella.bsky.social · Jun 16

Mark your calendars! 30/06 18.30 CET, as part of DiGRA 2025 at the University of Malta, I'm thrilled to be co-chairing Games at the Crossroads - a public discussion with a great lineup of speakers! Livestreamed on Zoom, free attendance - just sign up to receive the link: forms.gle/jmwCWyLQtof5...

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · Jun 23

🧶 Fuzzy Linkography: Automatic Graphical Summarization of Creative Activity Traces

we introduce a new way to analyze user activity logs from creativity support tools…

…& illuminate patterns of creative divergence, convergence, idea development, & homogenization at scale

arxiv.org/abs/2502.04599

Teaser figure (Figure 1) from the linked paper.

Caption: "Fuzzy linkography allows for the rapid translation of user activity logs from digital creativity support tools (and other traces of creative activity) into rough graphical summaries, suitable for visual and quantitative inspection by researchers."

On the left, a little sketchy person labeled "CST user" sits at a laptop and types in an idea to be rendered as an image. From their interactions, we derive a "creative activity trace" listing off all the ideas they've suggested as bullet points: "cat", "pink cat", "angry cat", and so on, all the way down to "pink cat with glasses". This trace passes through a process labeled "fuzzy linkography" (depicted here as a fuzzy purple cloud with a cat face and tail), and produces a graph labeled as a "fuzzy linkograph" that shows semantic and temporal relationships between user-suggested ideas. Another little sketchy person, labeled "researcher", peers at the fuzzy linkograph through a magnifying glass and thinks about the patterns they see.

Sketches by @cheesetalk.bsky.social!

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · Jun 23

this one earned an Honorable Mention at C&C 2025. presentation tomorrow!

joint work w/ Amy Smith (QMUL), @barrettrees.com, @jatazak.bsky.social, @isaackarth.bsky.social, @cheesetalk.bsky.social, @jjyc.bsky.social, & Melissa Roemmele – some of whom are now seeking postdocs / industry research roles…

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Pablo F. Quarta 🐍🌺 @pfquarta.bsky.social · Jun 9

ATUEL IS COMING TO STEAM & GOOGLE PLAY ON JUNE 30TH! 🎉🙌✨

This free re-release of our award-winning surrealist documentary game about climate change comes with localization to 7 new languages and full controller support! 💬🎮

Wishlist it now! 🙏💕

store.steampowered.com/app/2794330/...

Atuel on Steam

Atuel is an award-winning surrealist documentary game in which you explore beautiful, dreamlike landscapes inspired by the topography and wildlife of the Atuel River Valley in Argentina.

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · May 3

Hi Gus #BreakingBad

CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · May 3

Read more:
"I Like Your Story!": A Co-Creative Story-Crafting Game with a Persona-Driven Character Based on Generative AI
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
“1001 Nights” Game demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2782660/...
An #indiegame where you need to survive an #LLM king by telling stories✍️

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · May 3

My second #CHI ❤️ Thank all the friends who dropped by ☺️
Two years ago, I could only visit alone. But now, in addition to my role as a researcher at the company, I’ve also become someone who can bring my students and collaborators to showcase our work ☺️ Proud to bring an indie game to #CHI2025.

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · Apr 28

☺️☺️☺️

CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · Apr 28

Thanks for the presentation! I still remember the map drawing after the experience 😁😁😁

CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · Apr 28

I’m a super fan of Flo now @florencesn.bsky.social ☺️☺️Check the amazing paper about Archaeological Gameworld Affordances dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #CHI2025

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · Apr 28

I’m at my second #CHI ☺️ #CHI2025

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · Apr 26

Welcome to read our paper! ☺️

Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · Apr 25

Re: puppetry as a simile/metaphor of gen AI (in case you missed it), there is also this article by @cheesetalk.bsky.social and I, freely available on Arxiv :)
arxiv.org/abs/2501.15346

Between Puppet and Actor: Reframing Authorship in this Age of AI Agents

This chapter examines the conceptual tensions in understanding artificial intelligence (AI) agents' role in creative processes, particularly focusing on Large Language Models (LLMs). Building upon Sch...

arxiv.org

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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · Apr 25

Re: puppetry as a simile/metaphor of gen AI (in case you missed it), there is also this article by @cheesetalk.bsky.social and I, freely available on Arxiv :)
arxiv.org/abs/2501.15346

Between Puppet and Actor: Reframing Authorship in this Age of AI Agents

arxiv.org

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · Apr 2

#GDC2025 week was one of the most exhausting seven days of my life, but I grew up so much. I used to see myself mostly as an observer and often hesitated to share my ideas — but now, I truly feel like I’m part of the industry 🥹

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · Mar 31

well meaning i suppose but if you want to know anything of the impact trans people have on games you have to engage with stuff that will never appear on this sort of list because it's free, or it's too strange, or it's only on itch, etc

Checkpoint Gaming @checkpointau.bsky.social · Mar 30

This #TransDayofVisibility we’ve collated a definitive list of 90+ trans games throughout history.

Almost 100 games by trans developers and/or with trans representation.

Featuring games from:
@deconstructeam.bsky.social
@maddymakesgames.com

and many others 🏳️‍⚧️

checkpointgaming.net/features/202...

A definitive list of 90+ trans games throughout history

This Trans Day of Visibility, we found it necessary to make a definitive list of 90+ trans games throughout history that are loud and proud.

checkpointgaming.net

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · Mar 24

i forgot i set a sale for this but my new game "A Butterfly" is 51% off on Steam right now, for $0.49
store.steampowered.com/app/3439300/...
get it even cheaper? yay cheap cool weird games!

Save 51% on A Butterfly on Steam

The abyss called your name. You followed it here. Now you are its prisoner. A Butterfly is part horror, part interactive poem about overcoming and bittersweet surrender

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CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social · Mar 18

I finished my first GDC talk today about '1001 Nights' Thanks everyone for attending 🥳 Ended up with a nearly full room - really flattered by the audience!
I hope my indie game can be a prompt for innovative gameplay based on LLMs #GDC2025
Steam Demo: store.steampowered.com/app/2782660/...

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