Ahmed Khalifa

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.

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

Oeuf on Steam 3D physics-platformer where you are an egg! Roll, hop and slide your way back home.

Coming in Spring 2026: Oeuf, a 3D physics platformer where U egg. Wishlist innit. store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/...

Egg by Terry Cavanagh why not be an egg

New Game: Egg terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg

Queen Boat by Ahmed Khalifa (Amidos2006) An LGBT story inspired by real events.

raw as hell and super-well-done flicksy by @amidos2006.bsky.social (cw for slurs and institutional homophobic violence) amidos2006.itch.io/queen-boat

🎮 @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

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)

Appendix :D
Special thanks to everyone that is working on that issue:
- Zhenhua Feng - Jiangnan University
- Jialin Liu - Lingnan University
- Ahmed Khalifa - University of Malta (me :D)
- Huanhuan Chen - University of Science and Technology of China
- Josef Kittler - University of Surrey

- Large Language Models for generating multi-modal game content.
- Applications of the aforementioned methods and tools within the game industry.

Paper submission deadline: December 31st, 2025

For more information: transactions.games/special-issu...

Let's build multimodal generators.

(5/5)

- Few-shot and zero-shot learning algorithms applicable to multi-modal game content generation.
- Methods for evaluating and improving game facet orchestration.
- Methods for generating game worlds that incorporate multi-modal data and multifaceted content.
(4/5)

- Quantitative and qualitative methods for evaluating multi-modal game content, including joint evaluation approaches.
- Multi-modal or cross-modal content generation methods specifically tailored for games.
(3/5)

The issue focuses on submissions from a wide audience on topics, including but not limited to:
- Datasets or simulators designed for multi-modal content generation and/or evaluation, with potential applications in games.
- Tools for creating and evaluating multi-modal game content.
(2/5)

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

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

Congratulations :) That is amazing :) Next time, I am in the US, I will go to @barnesandnoble.com to see it on the shelves :)

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.

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 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

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 👇

13) Zen Puzzle Garden: akhalifa.com/testing/puzz...

12) Travelling Salesman: akhalifa.com/testing/puzz...

11) Take Heart Lass: akhalifa.com/testing/puzz...

10) Sokoban: akhalifa.com/testing/puzz...

9) Slidings: akhalifa.com/testing/puzz...

8) Notsnake: akhalifa.com/testing/puzz...

7) Match 3 Block Push: akhalifa.com/testing/puzz...

6) Lime Rick: akhalifa.com/testing/puzz...

5) Kettle: akhalifa.com/testing/puzz...

4) Multi-word Dictionary Game: akhalifa.com/testing/puzz...

3) Constellation Z: akhalifa.com/testing/puzz...

2) Blocks: akhalifa.com/testing/puzz...