Ahmed Khalifa
@amidos2006.bsky.social
Egyptian Game Designer | AI Researcher @ UM | He/They
🎮: amidos2006.itch.io
📚: scholar.google.com/citations?user=DRcyg5kAAAAJ
🎮: amidos2006.itch.io
📚: scholar.google.com/citations?user=DRcyg5kAAAAJ
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Ahmed Khalifa
@amidos2006.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
Modern LLMs are good at writing code, but not necessarily at optimizing policy. But you can wrap the LLM in an evolutionary framework, and search for policies. In a new Nof1 paper, we show that we can automatically generate strong trading policies.
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Modern LLMs are good at writing code, but not necessarily at optimizing policy. But you can wrap the LLM in an evolutionary framework, and search for policies. In a new Nof1 paper, we show that we can automatically generate strong trading policies.
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
🎮 @amidos2006.bsky.social offered some techniques for procedural generation in 2D games at at ExpoVIT 2025 in Costa Rica.
Watch the talk to learn what they are, how to use them, and also some ideas on how to combine them for your games.
🔻Hint #Stochastic #WFC #AI
www.youtube.com/live/k9nVryZ...
Watch the talk to learn what they are, how to use them, and also some ideas on how to combine them for your games.
🔻Hint #Stochastic #WFC #AI
www.youtube.com/live/k9nVryZ...
Charla Virtual - Expovit 2025 - 14 Nov - Parte 1
YouTube video by EXPOVIT
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🎮 @amidos2006.bsky.social offered some techniques for procedural generation in 2D games at at ExpoVIT 2025 in Costa Rica.
Watch the talk to learn what they are, how to use them, and also some ideas on how to combine them for your games.
🔻Hint #Stochastic #WFC #AI
www.youtube.com/live/k9nVryZ...
Watch the talk to learn what they are, how to use them, and also some ideas on how to combine them for your games.
🔻Hint #Stochastic #WFC #AI
www.youtube.com/live/k9nVryZ...
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
On Dithering ⇢ visualrambling.space/dithering-pa...
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
On Dithering ⇢ visualrambling.space/dithering-pa...
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
Just when you thought there couldn't possibly be any more balatro inspired rogue-lites... I went ahead and made another one with dice scoring mechanics.
rentonl.itch.io/pip-pip-hooray
#roguelite #balatro #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev
rentonl.itch.io/pip-pip-hooray
#roguelite #balatro #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev
PIP PIP HOORAY! by rentonl, Joyce Lee
A crazy dice-building, yahtzee-scoring, rogue-lite where you'll need both luck and strategy to win.
rentonl.itch.io
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Just when you thought there couldn't possibly be any more balatro inspired rogue-lites... I went ahead and made another one with dice scoring mechanics.
rentonl.itch.io/pip-pip-hooray
#roguelite #balatro #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev
rentonl.itch.io/pip-pip-hooray
#roguelite #balatro #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
Coming in Spring 2026: Oeuf, a 3D physics platformer where U egg. Wishlist innit. store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/...
Oeuf on Steam
3D physics-platformer where you are an egg! Roll, hop and slide your way back home.
store.steampowered.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Coming in Spring 2026: Oeuf, a 3D physics platformer where U egg. Wishlist innit. store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/...
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
New Game: Egg terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg
Egg by Terry Cavanagh
why not be an egg
terrycavanagh.itch.io
October 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
New Game: Egg terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
raw as hell and super-well-done flicksy by @amidos2006.bsky.social (cw for slurs and institutional homophobic violence) amidos2006.itch.io/queen-boat
Queen Boat by Ahmed Khalifa (Amidos2006)
An LGBT story inspired by real events.
amidos2006.itch.io
November 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
raw as hell and super-well-done flicksy by @amidos2006.bsky.social (cw for slurs and institutional homophobic violence) amidos2006.itch.io/queen-boat
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
🎮 @amidos2006.bsky.social was interviewed by @trueavatars.bsky.social at the @qgcon.bsky.social where he was presenting his game: Queen Boat.
🎧 Read more and listen to Ahmed’s interview
👉 game.edu.mt/blog/queen-b...
#GameStudies #SeriousGames #LGBTQ #IndieGames
🎧 Read more and listen to Ahmed’s interview
👉 game.edu.mt/blog/queen-b...
#GameStudies #SeriousGames #LGBTQ #IndieGames
October 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🎮 @amidos2006.bsky.social was interviewed by @trueavatars.bsky.social at the @qgcon.bsky.social where he was presenting his game: Queen Boat.
🎧 Read more and listen to Ahmed’s interview
👉 game.edu.mt/blog/queen-b...
#GameStudies #SeriousGames #LGBTQ #IndieGames
🎧 Read more and listen to Ahmed’s interview
👉 game.edu.mt/blog/queen-b...
#GameStudies #SeriousGames #LGBTQ #IndieGames
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
finished! this was a good time, loved the main twist on platforming language and the masocore levels were a pleasant surprise. (note that the down key is required for a verb later on, and it didn't work on my xinput d-pad, only the analog stick. that was my only wrinkle in an otherwise rad game)
October 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
finished! this was a good time, loved the main twist on platforming language and the masocore levels were a pleasant surprise. (note that the down key is required for a verb later on, and it didn't work on my xinput d-pad, only the analog stick. that was my only wrinkle in an otherwise rad game)
I am one of the editors for the upcoming Transaction on Games special issue :) The special issue is about "Multi-Modal Content Generation for Games." One topic that excites me the most is the orchestration between different facets of content generation.
(1/5)
#PCG #AI #ML #GenAI #AIandGames
(1/5)
#PCG #AI #ML #GenAI #AIandGames
October 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I am one of the editors for the upcoming Transaction on Games special issue :) The special issue is about "Multi-Modal Content Generation for Games." One topic that excites me the most is the orchestration between different facets of content generation.
(1/5)
#PCG #AI #ML #GenAI #AIandGames
(1/5)
#PCG #AI #ML #GenAI #AIandGames
My friends have just released their amazing poetry-based visual novel. Go support them and buy it if you are into cute games and poetry :)
#gamedev #indiedev #poetry #poetrygames #releaseweek #retweet #screenshotsaturday
#gamedev #indiedev #poetry #poetrygames #releaseweek #retweet #screenshotsaturday
Sips and Sonnets is officially OUT NOW!!!
🫖 Make Tea
📝 Write Poetry
🤍 Reminisce
🗣️ Full Voiceover
Our 2nd game humbly invites you to Meadows' Tearoom. 😊 Our heartfelt gratitude goes to everyone who made it possible. Make some tea before you play! 🍵
🫖 Make Tea
📝 Write Poetry
🤍 Reminisce
🗣️ Full Voiceover
Our 2nd game humbly invites you to Meadows' Tearoom. 😊 Our heartfelt gratitude goes to everyone who made it possible. Make some tea before you play! 🍵
September 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
My friends have just released their amazing poetry-based visual novel. Go support them and buy it if you are into cute games and poetry :)
#gamedev #indiedev #poetry #poetrygames #releaseweek #retweet #screenshotsaturday
#gamedev #indiedev #poetry #poetrygames #releaseweek #retweet #screenshotsaturday
Congratulations :) That is amazing :) Next time, I am in the US, I will go to @barnesandnoble.com to see it on the shelves :)
Excited to share that my new novel, 'What We Owe the Dead,' is now available to readers across the Americas.
It is a strange detective story set against the backdrop of ecological collapse.
You can now find 'What we Owe the Dead' through all major booksellers! CC @freeklomme.bsky.social
It is a strange detective story set against the backdrop of ecological collapse.
You can now find 'What we Owe the Dead' through all major booksellers! CC @freeklomme.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Congratulations :) That is amazing :) Next time, I am in the US, I will go to @barnesandnoble.com to see it on the shelves :)
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
We introduce PuzzleJAX, a benchmark for reasoning and learning. 🧩💡🦎
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
August 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
Please we are still looking for more human data for our project :)
Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :)
#research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle
Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :)
#research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle
We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
We introduce PuzzleJAX, a benchmark for reasoning and learning. 🧩💡🦎
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
September 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Please we are still looking for more human data for our project :)
Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :)
#research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle
Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :)
#research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle
Please we are still looking for more human data for our project :)
Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :)
#research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle
Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :)
#research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle
We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
We introduce PuzzleJAX, a benchmark for reasoning and learning. 🧩💡🦎
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
September 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Please we are still looking for more human data for our project :)
Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :)
#research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle
Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :)
#research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
Great tool by our researchers to help #AI students and researchers in comparing their algorithmic advancements (in #PCG, #LLMs #GenAI) with as little friction as possible.
Full thread with links and explanation by @amidos2006.bsky.social 👇
Full thread with links and explanation by @amidos2006.bsky.social 👇
We (I, Matthew Barthet, Roberto Gallotta, Antonios Liapis, @togelius.bsky.social, Georgios Yannakakis) would like to announce the Procedural Content Generation Benchmark (PCG Benchmark).
The PCG Benchmark allows users working in PCG research to test their algorithms against a variety of games.
The PCG Benchmark allows users working in PCG research to test their algorithms against a variety of games.
August 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Great tool by our researchers to help #AI students and researchers in comparing their algorithmic advancements (in #PCG, #LLMs #GenAI) with as little friction as possible.
Full thread with links and explanation by @amidos2006.bsky.social 👇
Full thread with links and explanation by @amidos2006.bsky.social 👇
We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
We introduce PuzzleJAX, a benchmark for reasoning and learning. 🧩💡🦎
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
August 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
We introduce PuzzleJAX, a benchmark for reasoning and learning. 🧩💡🦎
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
August 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
We introduce PuzzleJAX, a benchmark for reasoning and learning. 🧩💡🦎
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
Next week (on September the 3rd), I will be talking about my 2024 book at the
@festivaletteratura.it
>> www.festivaletteratura.it/it/home
My talk will be in in Italian, and tickets are still available!
>> www.clappit.com/biglietteria... <<
If you're in Mantova next week, come and say hi :)
@festivaletteratura.it
>> www.festivaletteratura.it/it/home
My talk will be in in Italian, and tickets are still available!
>> www.clappit.com/biglietteria... <<
If you're in Mantova next week, come and say hi :)
August 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Next week (on September the 3rd), I will be talking about my 2024 book at the
@festivaletteratura.it
>> www.festivaletteratura.it/it/home
My talk will be in in Italian, and tickets are still available!
>> www.clappit.com/biglietteria... <<
If you're in Mantova next week, come and say hi :)
@festivaletteratura.it
>> www.festivaletteratura.it/it/home
My talk will be in in Italian, and tickets are still available!
>> www.clappit.com/biglietteria... <<
If you're in Mantova next week, come and say hi :)
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
We’re not just about making games, we're about #research.
🔬 Our strong research focus highlighted by StudyInternational.com as one of the programmes inspiring future #gamedesigners alongside Abertay and @nyugamecenter.bsky.social
🔗 studyinternational.com/news/3-unive...
🔬 Our strong research focus highlighted by StudyInternational.com as one of the programmes inspiring future #gamedesigners alongside Abertay and @nyugamecenter.bsky.social
🔗 studyinternational.com/news/3-unive...
3 universities that’ll level up your game design career
The best game design programmes don’t just focus on game design – they explore and help you master the other aspects of making amazing games too.
studyinternational.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
We’re not just about making games, we're about #research.
🔬 Our strong research focus highlighted by StudyInternational.com as one of the programmes inspiring future #gamedesigners alongside Abertay and @nyugamecenter.bsky.social
🔗 studyinternational.com/news/3-unive...
🔬 Our strong research focus highlighted by StudyInternational.com as one of the programmes inspiring future #gamedesigners alongside Abertay and @nyugamecenter.bsky.social
🔗 studyinternational.com/news/3-unive...
#QueenBoat is part of this amazing bundle. The bundle has a great number of games by tons of creators. Don't miss it.
It’s live!
The Game Devs of Color Support Bundle is here!💚🩵
🎮 100+ items from 70+ creators
💰 Just $10 (worth ~$409)
🫶🏾 Save 97% + support GDoC programs
Every purchase helps fund events, grants, scholarships & more that uplift #gamedev of color!
👉 Grab the bundle now: itch.io/b/3171/game-...
The Game Devs of Color Support Bundle is here!💚🩵
🎮 100+ items from 70+ creators
💰 Just $10 (worth ~$409)
🫶🏾 Save 97% + support GDoC programs
Every purchase helps fund events, grants, scholarships & more that uplift #gamedev of color!
👉 Grab the bundle now: itch.io/b/3171/game-...
August 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
#QueenBoat is part of this amazing bundle. The bundle has a great number of games by tons of creators. Don't miss it.
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
'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
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
'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
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
proudly presenting DANIEL LINSSEN'S TYPING CHALLENGE, educational software to help you type quickly under pressure
managore.itch.io/daniel-linss... (web)
managore.itch.io/daniel-linss... (web)
July 6, 2025 at 7:58 AM
proudly presenting DANIEL LINSSEN'S TYPING CHALLENGE, educational software to help you type quickly under pressure
managore.itch.io/daniel-linss... (web)
managore.itch.io/daniel-linss... (web)
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
July 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM