Frank Lantz
@flantz
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game designer
Bay Area
Joined June 2009
My book is coming out this year. It’s called “The Beauty of Games”. Yes, I would love to be on your podcast.
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The most important cultural/aesthetic conversation that can happen within contemporary art is the interplay between the Felt Protocol described in @JonAskonas “New Control Society” and @flantz’ description of games as “the art form of instrumental reason” in The Beauty of Games.
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Fractal Block World, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Video Games Again
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Over in the group chat someone pointed ChatGPT Operator at the Paperclip game 🤣
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Around 1989, I had videotaped some kids playing a coin-op video game—one actually playing, and two or three others cheering and kibbitzing. At one point, one of them said "Yikes!" I showed the tape at the Xerox Parc Interaction Analysis Lab group meeting, ->
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AI has mastered chess, poker & Go. So why do we keep playing? Frank Lantz (@flantz) is a game designer who's spent his career thinking about how technology is changing the nature of games — & what we can learn about ourselves when we sit down to play them. Listen to his
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The trackmania community has encountered a fascinating problem. To deeply consider its ramifications and how it should be addressed is a meditation on the reasons why we compete.
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The military industrial hipster complex
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omg this is brilliant
Here's an idea for AI agent developers that get bored of making yet another memecoin promotion twitter bot: "The helpful GitHub flaneur agent" It rambles through public repositories, looks at reported bugs or issues and the source codes and if it finds something it is able to
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I love that he assumes (correctly) that no-one will need an explanation of the invented word based on my friend's name (brag), while worrying that a reference to a Famous Greek Myth needs to be carefully spelled out...
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By popular demand, my Bowie-Hegel essay 'Annotations to Life on Mars'
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Live and Drink, friends. Caves of Qud 1.0 Releasing December 5th 2024.
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In this one I complain about Hideo Kojima. But it comes from a place of love, I swear!
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I really enjoyed this conversation about Go and game design with @TheATGPod. It includes my best attempt to express what I think is the most important insight that games give us into the future of AI.
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this is the new bhopping
However, scaling would not solve everything, such as unexpected behaviors due to the limited memory of our model. This limitation interestingly enables the model to compose multiple jumps in a row by generalizing the effect of a jump on the geometry of a scene! (5/n)
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