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Defining the Game Producer: A Mapping of Key Characteristics and Differentiators of the Professional Behind Digital Game Production
Rafael C. Lopes, Danilo M. Ribeiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14409

Defining the Game Producer: A Mapping of Key Characteristics and Differentiators of the Professional Behind Digital Game Production
Introduction: As digital games grow in complexity, the role of the Game Producer becomes increasingly relevant for aligning creative, technical, and business dimensions. Objective: This study aimed to identify and map the main characteristics, skills, and competencies that define the Digital Game Producer profile. Methodology: A qualitative investigation was conducted with 11 semi-structured interviews, analyzed through Grounded Theory to build categories grounded in professional practice. Resu…

Waarom gingen tijdens corona plezierplekken als eerste dicht en als laatste weer open? Die vraag is het beginpunt van mijn nieuwe boek over plezier. Dat is geen onderwerp waar je financiering voor krijgt en daarom ben ik een crowdfunding gestart. Ik zou het heel leuk vinden als je het wilt delen en/of steunen: https://www.

Waarom gingen tijdens corona plezierplekken als eerste dicht en als laatste weer open? Die vraag is het beginpunt van mijn nieuwe boek over plezier. Dat is geen onderwerp waar je financiering voor krijgt en daarom ben ik een crowdfunding gestart. Ik zou het heel leuk vinden als je het wilt delen en/of steunen: https://www.

Den här posten är en bra illustration av vad krig gör med människor. Jag känner igen den från många israelvänner jag träffat med trauma bakom sig. Jag har själv känt och när jag var yngre uttryckt sådana känslor. Om ni är oförstående för varför så många israelvänner är oförmögna att ta in krigsbrotten som sker under IDF:s härjningar, kom då ihåg att inga sådana argument går fram förrän man bestämt sig för att se att de där bostadshusen på bilden - oavsett om de ligger i Tel Aviv eller i Gaza…

playing prague | Prague City Tourism - https://prague.eu/en/playing-prague/?utm_source=charlesgames.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsl…

playing prague | Prague City Tourism
Playing Prague is a game celebrating Prague and all those who have shaped and continue to shape this beautiful city. Every detail of the game is a tribute to the 1000-year cultural heritage of a city that was once the seat of the Holy Roman Emperors and the capital of the Bohemian Kingdom. It is also the origin of the designation of bohemians as people with a creative and unconventional way of life. Become a Bohemian for a while and build your own Prague.

The more time goes on, the more conflicted I get about #AI. (or, more specifically, generative AI. I like causal AI a fair bit)
On one hand, I hate so much about it:
the needless environmental and electronic parts waste, the impact on labor, the monopolistic nature of main organizations driving it, the endless conversations about AGI and other absurdly utopian (or dystopian) futures, the widespread theft of IP and human work, the devaluation of labor and craft… so much of it is not okay at all.
On the other hand, I kinda get it?
I like to test software for myself, so I've been dipping my toes into some popular AI tools over the past couple of years. I have a paid subscription to ChatGPT (which I don’t feel great about, I know), and I have found genuine utility in it.
More so, I feel so conflicted when I talk to people I respect and who I think are very smart and creative and they tell me how in love they are with all of these AI tools, about the complex workflows they build, about their experiments with agentic AI and integrations... These people seem so excited, so alive, so joyous about the things that this technology allows them to do. They often wouldn't have had the skills / knowledge / financial capital to do some of those things with human efforts alone. And now I see them coding their own tools, doing complex data analysis, trying creative experiments with graphics / text / video...
And I feel like a total jerk going "BUT ACTUALLY THIS IS UNETHICAL AND INEFFICIENT AND YOU SHOULD STOP IT BECAUSE AI SUCKS".
The technology behind all these gen AI models does have real utility, and it has kicked off a lot of creativity from people who wouldn't have dabbled in those kinds of projects otherwise.
So I don't know how to feel. Because I can't let go of the guilt and the real problems and the awareness of how much empty hype there is.
#technology #artificialintelligence #genAI #ChatGPT

Eigenlijk was dat best Eem lekker besturingssysteem... 😀
"Aangezien XP geen backdoors heeft mbt persoonlijke data wordt het gezien als safe."
En als de Russen die Amerikaanse software veilig genoeg vinden voor zichzelf, zal dat dus ook wel kloppen.
#Microsoft #Rusland

Hoog tijd om (ook) niet-biologisch te gaan certificeren, zoals een aantal jaar geleden ook de elektriciteitsmarkt full disclosure is ingevoerd https://eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/artikel…

Slijters halen biologische wijn uit schappen om 'duur en zinloos' bio-certificaat: 'Dit verdien ik niet terug'
Slijters die biologische wijnen verkopen zijn duizenden euro's kwijt aan een verplicht bio-certificaat, terwijl ze zelf niets veranderen aan het product....

Anyone know if #Helldivers2 creative director Johan Pilestedt gotten any better in his public statements since misunderstanding DEI and apparently spouting anti-immigrant sentiment? https://www.

Arrowhead Director: “[DEI] doesn't add to the game experience, it detracts. And games should be a pure pursuit of amazing moments”
Before twitter changed to hide people's likes, I took a deep dive through this dude's stuff and yeah, this outcome was always only a matter of time. Pilestedt had liked a bunch of posts over the last few years that were anti-immigration/borderline xenophobic etc. He cleaned up his feed a bit...

Fürs sonnige Gemüt.
Handgemalter #wandklexschmuck (nicht nur wie hier als Medaillon zu haben) - derzeit auf #miniaturepainting #watercolor #art #bloomscrolling #artShop #fediArt #mastoArt #creativeToots