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Mike Cook

@mtrc.bsky.social

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AI, creativity and procedural generation researcher. No, not that kind of AI. I write and make games and take photographs of cities. Senior Lecturer at King's College London. A prototype for a much larger system http://www.possibilityspace.org | he/they

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 18d

New Game: Blank Page Boogie-Woogie.

A game-designing game for making quick and silly games with your friends. All you need to get started is a pen, some paper and some willing co-designers.

illomens.itch.io/blank-page-b...

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Tom Betts @tomnullpointer.bsky.social · 2h

As an example of the sort of stuff on there, one of the articles is a short writeup of a prototype I mentioned on bluesky a year or so back. An approach to generating a top down city map.

www.nullpointer.co.uk/generating-c...

Generating City Maps

This post explains how I coded a city map generator for a…

www.nullpointer.co.uk

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 12h

that's all i got

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 12h

hmm

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 13h

So, we have a glitchless category now

Heather Flowers @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 13h

TERRIFYING THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN THE UNFAIR FLIPS SPEEDRUNNING COMMUNITY

Speedrun World Records @speedrunwr.bluesky.bot · 15h

Unfair Flips - Any% [Unrestricted] in 0:52 by Seolfer

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 19h

The most unrealistic thing about the videogame Eliza, ostensibly a dystopian science fiction game about AI therapists and megalomaniac billionaires, is that it predicted there would actually be quite comprehensive legislation and regulation that tech companies had to find loopholes around.

Rest of World @restofworld.org · 20h

“Imagine having a therapist available 24/7, who never judges you and is completely free.”

What could go wrong?
https://restofworld.org/2025/young-people-in-china-are-embracing-ai-therapy/

Young people in China are embracing AI therapy

Cheap, accessible, and friendly AI tools can augment scarce professional help, but there are risks to overreliance on the technology.

restofworld.org

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 21h

I couldn’t bring myself to click it and I’m now glad I didn’t, god alive

Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 1d

It sounds like it's less explicitly guiding in Cat's case and more of a general aesthetic, but in my use of it I try to pick a range of examples that will force me to think about the level of generalisation I need, or challenge assumptions I had about the generator's structure.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! It originally comes from Graeme Ritchie's iconic 2007 paper which formed the basis for a lot of computational creativity thinking: homepages.abdn.ac.uk/g.ritchie/pa...

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 2d

god this is amazing. i know literally two things about this company now and they're both terrible. amazing PR.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2d

Lisa wheeling in a lifeless Bart saying MOM, DAD, BART’S DEAD!

BART popping to life and saying DEAD SERIOUS ABOUT GOING TO ITCHY AND SCRATCHYLAND

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 3d

Come to London’s best and friendliest live coding night!

Lu wilson @todepond.com · 3d

ALGORHYTHMS
NOVEMBER
luma.com/algorhythms

AlgoRhythms November · Luma

AlgoRhythms is back. Full description coming soon.

luma.com

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 3d

Can you, though

Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 3d

videogames allow us to explore complex issues through interactive systems, embedded in beautiful virtual worlds.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 3d

Southbank, London. October 2025. I took these with a janky £20 camera that prints onto thermal paper. A little post-processing to convert to B&W and tweak the levels. #photos #street #london

Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 3d

Hell yeah can’t wait

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 3d

WAIT WHAT'S THIS?

💿There is a demo live for EARTH MUST DIE!

🕹️This gives you (most of) the tutorial section for the game! Have fun, and if you haven't wishlisted the full game yet DO THAT NOW PLEASE it really really helps us out.

Enjoy!

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

Earth Must Die Demo on Steam

These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...

store.steampowered.com

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Berrak @berrak.bsky.social · 5d

friends, unfortunately I am in need of some help again to keep a roof over my head

we are moving out of this flat on the 17th (in 10 days) we got for the month, and nowhere to go with very little funds so far

I am trying to raise about 1500 Euros while I am interviewing and applying to grants

Pay Berrak Nil Boya using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/berrakn and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

paypal.me

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 3d

I’m assuming this is going to intensify massively over the next twelve months as they attempt to wriggle out of their contract with Microsoft.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 3d

ai is here to stay - www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/h...

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 4d

Took me a second to realise that this is now a road! I walk over that section of bridge most days I go into work.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah it’s very clear from the end of the article that he’s trying to hedge his bets and is just there for the money. It’s odd.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 4d

Hi if you all could stop saying and doing dumb shit about AI for the next ten days until I give my talk that would really be great, I do not want to edit my slides any more.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 4d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 4d

'Night and the City' by Chris Donlan remains one of the finest online articles on game urbanism ever. Somehow simultaneously personal, historical, and objective it is an excellent read, and a reminder that L.A. Noir remains truly unique.

Find it here: www.eurogamer.net/night-and-th...

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 4d

This is switch_angel! She’s a live coder who often uses Strudel, a browser based tool for livecoding music. She’s great: youtu.be/sefJz9biLCY?...

Creating Beats & Rhythms in STRUDEL

YouTube video by Switch Angel

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