Justus Robertson

!!!* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY *!!! Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students.   We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept…... !!!* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY *!!! Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students.   We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept ...

2026 internships available in my team at The LEGO Group!

Internships in
Story,
Ideation,
Concept Model Design (ie, building with bricks),
Prototyping (3D printing etc),
Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!)
Physical (springs and spinny things)
Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)

AIIDE 2025 - Schedule Full digital program in-progress

📢 #AIIDE25 schedule has been announced!
sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...
⏰ Early registration ends Oct 10, Don’t miss out!

This includes a No. 3 in the USA ranking for our Interactive Games and Media department (IGM) in computing-oriented undergraduate game design programs.

Assistant Professor of Interactive Art, Performance & Games (Initial Review Date 11/14/25) University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!

Faculty job — please help spread the word!

At UC Santa Cruz we have two games degrees, one in Engineering and one in Arts. This is a job with the Arts folks, who include super cool creators like @mattiebrice.bsky.social & @swensen.bsky.social

recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01998

We have a similar issue in Rochester, especially this time of year. When we first moved up here it was August and I was really confused why it felt so hot in our apartment despite the temperature being 70F and why none of our clothes dried overnight on the drying rack...

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.

Job ad now up! We have an opening for a tenure-track or tenured professor, joint between Computer Science and Physics.

Wow, congrats Stephen. That's awesome!

Nice! What is it now?

I met Frank Hsu at Fordham University a few years back, who published with Erdős: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... It was really cool talking with him about it.

I looked the conference up after seeing you were speaking at the RL&VG workshop and it looks really cool. I wish I had known about it before the paper deadline. Oh well, there's always next year!

I did not know that there's been recent progress on shortest paths, of all things!

I always joked in grad school about accepting sponsorship deals from snack food companies for targeted advertisements to students. "And now for the A* algorithm review, brought to you by Monster Energy!" Maybe have a bunch of advertisement patches on my tweed jacket.

To celebrate over 20 years of AAIDE we want to highlight our Best Paper winners so far!

Every week we will add one to this thread until we've caught up 👾

2025 update to my Institutions Active in Technical Games Research ranking, which looks at who publishes in CS+games conferences and journals (AIIDE, FDG, CHI Play, IEEE ToG, etc.)

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When I tried to go beyond the basic boilerplate, it started hallucinating an API that I had to do research on to discover didn't exist though, so it may have actually cost me time overall.

I've used LLMs as a coding assistant a couple times and the instance that *felt* the most helpful was when I wanted to write a PowerPoint macro and had never done it before. It gave me some boilerplate code tailored to my problem, saving me a few trips to StackOverflow.

Congratulations Matthew! Enjoy your new ability to associate with professors 🎊🎉

The CFP for the Wordplay Workshop at #EMNLP2025 is out! We welcome any work that sits at the intersection of #NLP and games/narrative.
We are looking for regular papers (4-8 pgs) and extended abstracts about open challenges in the space (2 pgs)

Papers due: August 29
wordplay-workshop.github.io/cfp/

This is absolutely wild. It's like a whole website of people accidentally Tweeting their private Google searches.

I took a picture from the same spot!

The coding project I have gotten the most help from an LLM on was creating a custom VBA macro for PowerPoint to automate section progress slides I include in my lectures. But at a certain point it started making up API components that didn't exist and led me down a dead end.

This is a really bad metaphor. Houses serve a purpose, but math homework doesn't NEED to be solved. I like Ted Chaing's metaphor: using AI for homework is like using a forklift to move weights in a gym. No one needs weights in a gym to be moved. The desired change is /within/ you.

This blog post makes so many great points.

I want to highlight the point about industry benefiting from not having to pay for the cost of trainings their scientists.

It’s why AI Industry labs are so productive. They’re staffed with fully trained phds with 5-10 years of experience. It’s amazing…

Congrats Mark! 🎉

New Post: Please Do, In Fact, @ Me.

I wrote a little bit about games academia/industry discourse, and what I think seem to be some common misconceptions about academic publishing (and academia in general, but mostly focusing on how to talk to academics).

www.possibilityspace.org/blog-academi...

Those are some cool walls.

That is not a pipe.

Let's go!

It does a good job interleaving storytelling and historical depth. At some point I listened to an audiobook on Sumeria written and read by a history professor expecting an engaging narrative similar to this podcast. And I was very disappointed.