Tootfinder

An Anthropologist LLM to Elicit Users' Moral Preferences through Role-Play
Gianluca De Ninno, Paola Inverardi, Francesca Belotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01189 https://

An Anthropologist LLM to Elicit Users' Moral Preferences through Role-Play
This study investigates a novel approach to eliciting users' moral decision-making by combining immersive roleplaying games with LLM analysis capabilities. Building on the distinction introduced by Floridi between hard ethics inspiring and shaping laws-and soft ethics-moral preferences guiding individual behavior within the free space of decisions compliant to laws-we focus on capturing the latter through contextrich, narrative-driven interactions. Grounded in anthropological methods, the role-…

Coordinated Car-following Using Distributed MPC
Di Shen, Qi Dai, Suzhou Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02010 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02010

Coordinated Car-following Using Distributed MPC
Within the modeling framework of Markov games, we propose a series of algorithms for coordinated car-following using distributed model predictive control (DMPC). Instead of tracking prescribed feasible trajectories, driving policies are solved directly as outcomes of the DMPC optimization given the driver's perceivable states. The coordinated solutions are derived using the best response dynamics via iterated self-play, and are facilitated by direct negotiation using inter-agent or agent-infras…

Okay, here's the promised follow-up with more authors I respect who didn't make it onto this list. I won't do deep dives but I'll list at least one work per author:
YA novelists:
- Randi Pink ("Girls Like Us")
- Louisa Onomé ("Twice as Perfect")
- Emery Lee ("Meet Cute Diary")
- Robin Benway ("Far from the Tree")
- Angela Velez ("Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity")
Children's book authors:
- Jacqueline Davies ("Bubbles Up")
- Freya Hartas ("Slow Down in the Park")
Novelists:
- Rimma Onoseta ("How You Grow Wings")
Graphic novelists:
- Linda Medley ("Castle Waiting")
- 🖋️Magsalene Visaggio 🖌️Paulina Ganucheau ("Girlmode")
- Ursula Vernon ("Digger")
- SJ Sindu ("Tall Water" w/ Dion MBD)
- Hope Larson ("Be That Way"; "Salt Magic" w/ Rebecca Mock)
- Lily Williams Karen Schneemann ("Go With the Flow")
- Maia Kobabe ("Gender Queer")
- Kay O'Neill ("Tea Dragon Society")
- Marjane Satrapi ("Persepolis")
Mangaka:
- Kaoru Mori ("Young Bride's Stories")
- Ryoko Kui ("Delicious in Dungeon")
- Natsuki Takaya ("Fruits Basket")
Anime writers/directors and/or Japanese light/fantasy/SF novelists:
- Nahoko Uehashi ("Moribito")
- Sayo Yamamoto ("Michiko & Hatchin"; "Yuri!!! On Ice")
- Mari Okada ("Ano Hana: The Flower we Saw That Day"; "Toradora!")
Game designers/programmers:
(Upon review I was pretty remiss in skipping over a few of these people, some of whom I wasn't aware of but most of whom I just didn't remember when writing my short list. Subconscious misogyny in action. Short & Thorson probably would have squeezed out some of the YA authors I included, although I have no real regrets.)
- Junko Kawano ("Suikoden")
- Elizabeth LaPensée ("When Rivers Were Trails")
- Momo Pixel ("Hair Nah")
- Zoë Quinn ("Depression Quest"; narrative designer on "Solar Ash")
- Kellee Santiago ("Cloud"; "Flower")
- Tanya X. Short ("Moon Hunters")
- Kim Swift ("Portal")
- Maddy Thorson ("Celeste")
- Andi McClure @… ("Jumpman")
Note: I haven't included composers or artists here, but there's a deep bench.
Games journalists/steamers:
- Tanya DePass @… (#/INeedDiverseGames; twitch streams)
- Anita Sarkeesian (Feminist Frequency)
Game/play scholars:
- Mary Flanagan ("Critical Play")
- Tracy Fullerton ("Game Design Workshop")
- Brenda Laurel ("Toward the Design of a Computer-Based Interactive Fantasy System")
- Janet Murray ("Hamlet on the Holodeck"l
- Susana Tosca ("A Pragmatics of Links")
- Jichen Zhu ("Agency Play: Dimensions of Agency for Interactive Narrative Design")
- Magy Seif El Nasr ("Design patterns to guide player movement in 3D games")
- Kate Compton ("Causal Creators"; also "Spore")
P.S. upon consideration I've decided not to include any authors who are men in this coda.
There are definitely others who probably deserve to be here that I'm forgetting...
#GsmeDesign #Authors

Balanced player arrangement in rotating court games
Alessandro Danelon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23884 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23884

Balanced player arrangement in rotating court games
Consider a game involving a team with $n$ players, $k$ of which wear shirts marked with a letter $A$, while the others with a letter $B$, and such that only $s$ people play, while the remaining $n-s$ wait outside the court. At certain times the players rotate, and one player enters the court while another one leaves, each player keeping the same neighbors at all times. The house rules want at least $t$ players wearing a shirt with the letter $A$ in the court at each rotation. We show that this …

Entropy Regularization in Mean-Field Games of Optimal Stopping
Jodi Dianetti, Roxana Dumitrescu, Giorgio Ferrari, Renyuan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18821 https://

Entropy Regularization in Mean-Field Games of Optimal Stopping
We study mean-field games of optimal stopping (OS-MFGs) and introduce an entropy-regularized framework to enable learning-based solution methods. By utilizing randomized stopping times, we reformulate the OS-MFG as a mean-field game of singular stochastic controls (SC-MFG) with entropy regularization. We establish the existence of equilibria and prove their stability as the entropy parameter vanishes. Fictitious play algorithms tailored for the regularized setting are introduced, and we show th…

VisPubs Games: Joyful Discovery of Visualization Research(ers)
Devin Lange, Zach Cutler, Maxim Lisnic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16427 https://arxiv.org/pd…

VisPubs Games: Joyful Discovery of Visualization Research(ers)
Many sophisticated tools exist to help researchers find the academic literature they are searching for, but what about finding work that you aren't looking for? We promote joyful discovery of visualization research through two games (Colon and Authored) available to play now at https://games.vispubs.com. We believe these games provide several benefits to the visualization research community. First, the joyful discovery of visualization research and researchers occurs because these games randoml…

Purportedly - RockStar games is the latest organization looking to integrate age verification
https://in.ign.com/grand-theft-auto-online/238083/news/gta-online-rockstar-games-reported…

Pattern Formation in Agent-Based and PDE Models for Evolutionary Games with Payoff-Driven Motion
Tianyong Yao, Chenning Xu, Daniel B. Cooney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20538 htt…

Pattern Formation in Agent-Based and PDE Models for Evolutionary Games with Payoff-Driven Motion
Spatial structure can play an important role in the evolution of cooperative behavior and the achievement of collective success of a population. In this paper, we explore the role of random and directed motion on spatial pattern formation and the payoff achieved by populations in both stochastic and deterministic models of spatial populations who engage in social interactions following a hawk-dove game. For the case of purely diffusive motion, both a stochastic spatial model and a partial diffe…

Beyond Survival: Evaluating LLMs in Social Deduction Games with Human-Aligned Strategies
Zirui Song, Yuan Huang, Junchang Liu, Haozhe Luo, Chenxi Wang, Lang Gao, Zixiang Xu, Mingfei Han, Xiaojun Chang, Xiuying Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11389

Beyond Survival: Evaluating LLMs in Social Deduction Games with Human-Aligned Strategies
Social deduction games like Werewolf combine language, reasoning, and strategy, providing a testbed for studying natural language and social intelligence. However, most studies reduce the game to LLM-based self-play, yielding templated utterances and anecdotal cases that overlook the richness of social gameplay. Evaluation further relies on coarse metrics such as survival time or subjective scoring due to the lack of quality reference data. To address these gaps, we curate a high-quality, human…

Imagine if we don't make play offs but Esther gets the golden boot. that would be unthinkable.
I mean I guess post season games makes that * almost * impossible.
#GothamFC

If you've been paying attention, this is a *very* strong signal that OpenAI is hitting the limits of improved capability with more compute/data and they're (predictably) all out of other ideas. The quiet "exponential model capabilities" lie here is what Altmann promised but is now starting not to be able to deliver, even in cherry-picked demo terms.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/sam-altman-says-agi-is-a-pointless-term-experts-agree.html
The "agentic" turn was never going to pan out, because it exposes the unreliability of LLMs too directly, and it turns out that no amount of yelling at your text vending machine to "Be smarter! Think harder!" will actually get you anything more than vended text.
I'm *praying* that we get into this crash sooner rather than later, since the faster it comes, the less painful it will be.
My recent reading in actual research papers corroborates this, for example, asking LLMs to play games exposes their utter lack of anything that can be termed "reasoning":
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08501v1

FYI: When one of our #HashTagGames has "Anything" in the game tag, or doesn't have a particular medium, like song or movie, we mean use the medium (song, poem, limerick, catchphrase, movie, etc.) of your choice as your game play vehicle.
Also, there's no wrong way to play or interpret our games.

Ok this is cool. Don't know if this is a studio/publisher thing or Steam is now enforcing this:
>AI Generated Content Disclosure
> We are utilising ElevenLabs' text-to-speech tool to generate voice-over elements within Metro Rivals. All scripts and content are written by Dovetail Games staff, and the voices you hear in-game, which have used ElevenLabs' software, have been licensed by voice actors.
either way, cool!
@…

lashman (@lashman@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Metro Rivals: New York got a store page "Reputation is paramount; strategy is key, and all-out speed can make or break everything. Welcome to Metro Rivals—a genre-defying subway simcade game where you battle Track Titans in solo play or clash with friends in fierce PvP." https://store.steampowered.com/app/3024160 #steam #gaming #videoGames #steamStorePage

Combinatorial games and the golden ratio on digraphs
Tomoaki Abuku, Hiroki Inazu, Hiyu Inoue, Shun-ichi Kimura, Koki Suetsugu, Kosaku Watanabe, Takahiro Yamashita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04943

Combinatorial games and the golden ratio on digraphs
We introduce a new combinatorial game, named Triangle Game. In this game, a directed $3$-cycle graph is given, and tokens are placed on each vertex. The player chooses an edge and takes at least one token from the initial vertex. At the same time, the player is allowed to return some tokens to the terminal vertex of the edge, as far as the total number of the tokens decreases. We describe the set of \Pps~under both normal play and misère play. The golden ratio $ϕ=\dfrac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2}$ plays …

Like seriously folks, you don't play Fortnite, you should already have a community on the fediverse but somehow you don't?
What the heck is wrong with Mastodon and the Fediverse?
A lot of people are a lot of talk like me but...
I ALSO GAME
at least I'm doing some activity!
THERE IS NO FORTNITE COMMUNITY HERE.
We have 1 or 2 guys...guys/gals and that's it!
To me that = NOBODY GAMES ON THE FEDIVERSE.
TALK TALK TALK

Mailbag: Will October bring improved play? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-will-october-bring-improved-play

Mailbag: Will October bring improved play? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-will-october-bring-improved-play