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Aaron Langille (๐Ÿ•น๏ธ)โ„ข๏ธ

@aaronlangille.bsky.social

he/him | Game design prof๐Ÿ… | Game Designer ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ | Author: A Gamer's Introduction to C# (out now), A Gamer's Introduction to MonoGame (coming soon) linktr.ee/aaronlangille

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perfect.

02.10.2025 00:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I wrote this a couple of years ago to practice vector-based movement in @monogame.net. I'm so happy I did because it's about to be the โญ of Monday's lecture on AI movement in games.

๐Ÿ•น๏ธ๐Ÿ‘พ๐Ÿ’ป

Thanks @elthen.bsky.social for the awesome gremlin sprites. Still my fave.

#MonoGame #GameAI #GameCoding

27.09.2025 13:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What happens when the player looks down?๐Ÿ„โœจ๐Ÿ”ฎ

Last week some behind the scenes footage of our game went viral. We got heaps of comments from people wondering if players could see between the thousands of hand drawn illustrations that make up our world.

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #gamedevelopment

01.09.2025 12:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 115    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Audiobook was awesome. 10/10

29.08.2025 23:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

9

Ready for more details.

29.08.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This might look like a follow up textbook, but it's actually a cleverly disguised follow up portal to writing your own games with @monogame.net.

Learn #MonoGame. Make games.

(out soon!!!)

Just saying (again).

๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ•น๏ธ๐Ÿ’ป

25.08.2025 19:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This might look like a textbook, but it's actually a cleverly disguised portal to writing your own game code.

Learn to code. Make games.

Just saying.

โš”๏ธ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ๐Ÿ’ป

#LearnToCode #BookSky #LearnCSharp

25.08.2025 19:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

The "using AI to generate concept art early in the process to quickly iterate ideas" thing is so absurd to me because like. You don't know what concept art is. You don't know what concept art *does*.

23.08.2025 16:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1446    ๐Ÿ” 370    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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Join us TODAY for our 11th "Open Hours" AMA

When: @ 12:00 EDT, 16:00 UTC, 17:00 BST, 18:00 CET

Details here:
monogame.net/blog/2025-08...
Special Guest - @jonathanpeppers.bsky.social of Draw a Stickman EPIC! (over 5 million downloads!)

Join via:
discord.gg/H2tAkbSq?eve...

See you there!

20.08.2025 12:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@daviau.dev

18.08.2025 12:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*

Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when

An LLM just generates text

26.04.2025 18:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4042    ๐Ÿ” 1228    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 61    ๐Ÿ“Œ 37

4+ years between first and fifth? I guess physical games were still the norm back then.

15.08.2025 13:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

lol, judge away. So much Torchlight and Awesomenauts for my kid.

Post a screenshot of your first 5 Steam purchases and let Bluesky judge you

15.08.2025 13:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

*was released

15.08.2025 01:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I played the demo and picked it up as soon as the full game is released. Highly recommend.

15.08.2025 01:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Spectral Evidence for AI AI is bad enough on its own without giving it god-like powers

Wrote about AI, and the way we talk about it all having the quality of a ghost story.

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...

12.08.2025 15:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 491    ๐Ÿ” 105    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 32

No, I was hoping you had ideas. All of the examples from my upcoming book are hosted on GitHub currently. I can't rewrite the references in my book, but I could put a page pointing somewhere else, I think.

If you find somewhere else, maybe you can update here?

11.08.2025 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Have you checked out other options?

11.08.2025 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

AI stuff?

11.08.2025 16:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

OpenAI doesn't realise that PhD-level expertise has very little to do with the stuff you know and more to do with how you can think. I forget facts from mine all the time!

The value in my PhD is knowing how to reliably generate, evaluate, and defend or dismiss information that's new to the world.

08.08.2025 07:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 280    ๐Ÿ” 49    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of peopleโ€™s identities, government says

Great move by Denmark: "The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice."

28.07.2025 20:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Accessible, fun, full of examples, and featuring the stellar art of @guildedhut.bsky.social, the Welcome Brave Adventurer series is your (or your students') gateway into the joys of programming, C#, and MonoGame. ๐Ÿ˜

#learnToCode #gameDesign #gameCoding #introToProgramming #MonoGame

23.07.2025 16:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Today I submitted the final edits for my upcoming book - A Gamer's Introduction to Programming with MonoGame (@monogame.net). That means it'll be in production and available sooooon! ๐Ÿš€ โš”๏ธ ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ

23.07.2025 16:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Letโ€™s freaking gooooooo ๐Ÿ’ช

17.07.2025 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1693    ๐Ÿ” 604    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 23
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For those who need an assist with the math: 0.3%

17.07.2025 13:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Keep me posted when you do!!! Maybe they can work for my game toooo!?

17.07.2025 00:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Glad I got mine before they all disappeared. Just checked the order to make itโ€™s still on the way. ๐Ÿซ 

16.07.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Find artist. Make game.

Release game?

๐Ÿคฉ

16.07.2025 15:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This

06.07.2025 20:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 111    ๐Ÿ” 31    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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