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Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social · 11d

perfect.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social · 15d

I wrote this a couple of years ago to practice vector-based movement in @monogame.net. I'm so happy I did because it's about to be the ⭐ of Monday's lecture on AI movement in games.

🕹️👾💻

Thanks @elthen.bsky.social for the awesome gremlin sprites. Still my fave.

#MonoGame #GameAI #GameCoding

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · Sep 1

What happens when the player looks down?🍄✨🔮

Last week some behind the scenes footage of our game went viral. We got heaps of comments from people wondering if players could see between the thousands of hand drawn illustrations that make up our world.

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #gamedevelopment

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Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social · Aug 29

Audiobook was awesome. 10/10

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Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Ready for more details.

Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social · Aug 25

This might look like a follow up textbook, but it's actually a cleverly disguised follow up portal to writing your own games with @monogame.net.

Learn #MonoGame. Make games.

(out soon!!!)

Just saying (again).

🚀🕹️💻

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Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social · Aug 25

This might look like a textbook, but it's actually a cleverly disguised portal to writing your own game code.

Learn to code. Make games.

Just saying.

⚔️🕹️💻

#LearnToCode #BookSky #LearnCSharp

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · Aug 23

The "using AI to generate concept art early in the process to quickly iterate ideas" thing is so absurd to me because like. You don't know what concept art is. You don't know what concept art *does*.

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MonoGame @monogame.net · Aug 20

Join us TODAY for our 11th "Open Hours" AMA

When: @ 12:00 EDT, 16:00 UTC, 17:00 BST, 18:00 CET

Details here:
monogame.net/blog/2025-08...
Special Guest - @jonathanpeppers.bsky.social of Draw a Stickman EPIC! (over 5 million downloads!)

Join via:
discord.gg/H2tAkbSq?eve...

See you there!

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Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social · Aug 18

@daviau.dev

softsavage.bsky.social @softsavage.bsky.social · Aug 17

Here’s a demo showing more of a #MonoGame Lobby system where you wait for everyone to be ready before jumping into battle - www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wup... . Link to Source Code in the video’s description. 3/3

MonoGame: NetworkStateManagement w/Lobby System on LAN

YouTube video by Dominique Louis

www.youtube.com

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Apr 26

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*

Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when

An LLM just generates text

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · Apr 26

Some of the anti-AI stuff feels a bit like when people would say "don't use Wikipedia as a source." It's just like anything else, a piece of information that you weigh against multiple sources and your own understanding of its likely failure modes

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Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social · Aug 15

4+ years between first and fifth? I guess physical games were still the norm back then.

Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social · Aug 15

lol, judge away. So much Torchlight and Awesomenauts for my kid.

Post a screenshot of your first 5 Steam purchases and let Bluesky judge you

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Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social · Aug 15

*was released

Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social · Aug 15

I played the demo and picked it up as soon as the full game is released. Highly recommend.

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · Aug 12

Wrote about AI, and the way we talk about it all having the quality of a ghost story.

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...

The Spectral Evidence for AI

AI is bad enough on its own without giving it god-like powers

open.substack.com

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Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social · Aug 11

No, I was hoping you had ideas. All of the examples from my upcoming book are hosted on GitHub currently. I can't rewrite the references in my book, but I could put a page pointing somewhere else, I think.

If you find somewhere else, maybe you can update here?

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Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social · Aug 11

Have you checked out other options?

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Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social · Aug 11

AI stuff?

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · Aug 8

OpenAI doesn't realise that PhD-level expertise has very little to do with the stuff you know and more to do with how you can think. I forget facts from mine all the time!

The value in my PhD is knowing how to reliably generate, evaluate, and defend or dismiss information that's new to the world.

Dave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · Aug 8

OpenAI: we’re giving you PhD-level expertise in your pocket!

Everyone with PhDs: I know exactly who you’re automating and I hate him

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Michael Iantorno 🍂🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · Jul 28

Great move by Denmark: "The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice."

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features

Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says

www.theguardian.com

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Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social · Jul 23

Accessible, fun, full of examples, and featuring the stellar art of @guildedhut.bsky.social, the Welcome Brave Adventurer series is your (or your students') gateway into the joys of programming, C#, and MonoGame. 😍

#learnToCode #gameDesign #gameCoding #introToProgramming #MonoGame

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Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social · Jul 23

Today I submitted the final edits for my upcoming book - A Gamer's Introduction to Programming with MonoGame (@monogame.net). That means it'll be in production and available sooooon! 🚀 ⚔️ 🕹️

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Jul 17

Let’s freaking gooooooo 💪

A California federal judge ruled Thursday that three authors suing Anthropic over copyright infringement can bring a class action lawsuit representing all U.S. writers whose work was allegedly downloaded from libraries of pirated works.

The filing alleges that Anthropic, the Amazon-backed OpenAI competitor behind the chatbot Claude, “violated the Copyright Act by doing Napster-style downloading of millions of works.” It alleges that the company downloaded as many as seven million copies of books from libraries of pirated works.

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Aaron Langille (🕹️)™️ @aaronlangille.bsky.social · Jul 17

For those who need an assist with the math: 0.3%

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