Basil
@basilthecreator.bsky.social
Building playful interactions @lauflauf
Writes about creative life and politics.
He/Him, Zürich
https://lauflauf.games/en/newsletter
Writes about creative life and politics.
He/Him, Zürich
https://lauflauf.games/en/newsletter
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Basil
@basilthecreator.bsky.social
· Sep 10
hey! I am basil, creative director @lauflauf.bsky.social I make playful interactions and talk about the intersection of creativity and politics.
We just published a new version of the Castle Come playtest on Steam! If you are curious about the game, enlist on the page!
#gamedev #indiegames #playmygame
store.steampowered.com/app/1902970/...
#gamedev #indiegames #playmygame
store.steampowered.com/app/1902970/...
January 23, 2026 at 4:50 PM
We just published a new version of the Castle Come playtest on Steam! If you are curious about the game, enlist on the page!
#gamedev #indiegames #playmygame
store.steampowered.com/app/1902970/...
#gamedev #indiegames #playmygame
store.steampowered.com/app/1902970/...
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it has to be possible that if you put a fleet of self-driving cars on the road in our cities, or if you litter the sidewalks with roving bots and scooters, you forfeit all of that stuff. it has to be possible that if you deploy a system that people use to generate CSAM, you face social repercussions
January 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
it has to be possible that if you put a fleet of self-driving cars on the road in our cities, or if you litter the sidewalks with roving bots and scooters, you forfeit all of that stuff. it has to be possible that if you deploy a system that people use to generate CSAM, you face social repercussions
January 8, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Today the Castle Come playtest went live! Sign up here:
store.steampowered.com/app/1902970/...
#indiegames #gaming #gamedev #gaming
store.steampowered.com/app/1902970/...
#indiegames #gaming #gamedev #gaming
Castle Come on Steam
Castle Come is a walking fortress roguelike. Scout a strange land full of bandits in search of new parts, defeat enemy castles and scavenge the wreckage, recruit crew to man your growing arsenal of we...
store.steampowered.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Today the Castle Come playtest went live! Sign up here:
store.steampowered.com/app/1902970/...
#indiegames #gaming #gamedev #gaming
store.steampowered.com/app/1902970/...
#indiegames #gaming #gamedev #gaming
We are getting ready for our Castle Come playtest starting on Thursday! If you want to try our game for free and give us valuable feedback, sign up here:
store.steampowered.com/app/1902970/...
#gamedev #indiegames #gaming #playtest
store.steampowered.com/app/1902970/...
#gamedev #indiegames #gaming #playtest
January 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
We are getting ready for our Castle Come playtest starting on Thursday! If you want to try our game for free and give us valuable feedback, sign up here:
store.steampowered.com/app/1902970/...
#gamedev #indiegames #gaming #playtest
store.steampowered.com/app/1902970/...
#gamedev #indiegames #gaming #playtest
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its so funny that we said this real data implies made up data if you interpolate it and this is the whole economy now
December 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
its so funny that we said this real data implies made up data if you interpolate it and this is the whole economy now
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videogames would be 9000% better if the people in charge were theater nerds instead of movie nerds
December 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
videogames would be 9000% better if the people in charge were theater nerds instead of movie nerds
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I absolutely adore this short by @benimator.bsky.social (and Son)
"We're Kinda Different"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXrC...
#animation #short
"We're Kinda Different"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXrC...
#animation #short
We're Kinda Different
YouTube video by benimator
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I absolutely adore this short by @benimator.bsky.social (and Son)
"We're Kinda Different"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXrC...
#animation #short
"We're Kinda Different"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXrC...
#animation #short
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i think this is my favourite delivery of this joke
January 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
i think this is my favourite delivery of this joke
I took the chance to write something a bit more "esoteric" about our game yesterday; its about entropy, thoughts on design and mud in your hand
mailchi.mp/505d55238b9e...
#gamedev #indiegames #gaming #design
mailchi.mp/505d55238b9e...
#gamedev #indiegames #gaming #design
December 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I took the chance to write something a bit more "esoteric" about our game yesterday; its about entropy, thoughts on design and mud in your hand
mailchi.mp/505d55238b9e...
#gamedev #indiegames #gaming #design
mailchi.mp/505d55238b9e...
#gamedev #indiegames #gaming #design
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COMING SOON: AI + Guy™
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
COMING SOON: AI + Guy™
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November 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Sam wrote a fresh newsletter for @lauflauf.games
We have been talking a lot of the change of meaning for the term "roguelike" and what it means for our game.
Read it here: mailchi.mp/385a8a3b6de4...
Subscribe 💌: lauflauf.games/en/newsletter
#gamedev #indiegames #roguelike
We have been talking a lot of the change of meaning for the term "roguelike" and what it means for our game.
Read it here: mailchi.mp/385a8a3b6de4...
Subscribe 💌: lauflauf.games/en/newsletter
#gamedev #indiegames #roguelike
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Sam wrote a fresh newsletter for @lauflauf.games
We have been talking a lot of the change of meaning for the term "roguelike" and what it means for our game.
Read it here: mailchi.mp/385a8a3b6de4...
Subscribe 💌: lauflauf.games/en/newsletter
#gamedev #indiegames #roguelike
We have been talking a lot of the change of meaning for the term "roguelike" and what it means for our game.
Read it here: mailchi.mp/385a8a3b6de4...
Subscribe 💌: lauflauf.games/en/newsletter
#gamedev #indiegames #roguelike
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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I can’t be the only one who just straight up isn’t interested in incorporating anything we learn from synthetic “social” science experiments conducted on LLM facsimiles of human text because I simply don’t think the epistemology of it has any bearing on the world, regardless of any similarity
LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
Computational Turing Test Reveals Systematic Differences Between Human and AI Language
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in the social sciences to simulate human behavior, based on the assumption that they can generate realistic, human-like text. Yet this assumption rem...
arxiv.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I can’t be the only one who just straight up isn’t interested in incorporating anything we learn from synthetic “social” science experiments conducted on LLM facsimiles of human text because I simply don’t think the epistemology of it has any bearing on the world, regardless of any similarity
I wrote another newsletter for @lauflauf.games this week about our approach to items, health and building, check it out: mailchi.mp/10762bb7e711...
#gamedev #indiegames #gaming
#gamedev #indiegames #gaming
November 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I wrote another newsletter for @lauflauf.games this week about our approach to items, health and building, check it out: mailchi.mp/10762bb7e711...
#gamedev #indiegames #gaming
#gamedev #indiegames #gaming
Opt out of linkedin ai scraping now!
October 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Opt out of linkedin ai scraping now!
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Human artist - use one piece to convince other humans to follow you
October 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Human artist - use one piece to convince other humans to follow you
"Eight Sleep runs on the cloud and when the servers go down or the customer’s internet goes out it bricks the bed. There’s no offline mode" no words
if you're feeling down today, I have some Reddit threads for you
The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds
When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds, getting stuck in reclined positions or roasting with the heat turned all the way up.
www.404media.co
October 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"Eight Sleep runs on the cloud and when the servers go down or the customer’s internet goes out it bricks the bed. There’s no offline mode" no words
We wrote another newsletter yesterday :) hear us talk about interactive story writing with INK and also a link to playtest enqueue!!
Read it here:
mailchi.mp/7a8d5ca31067...
Sign up for the future:
lauflauf.games/en/simple?op...
#gamedev #indiegames #gaming #games #art
Read it here:
mailchi.mp/7a8d5ca31067...
Sign up for the future:
lauflauf.games/en/simple?op...
#gamedev #indiegames #gaming #games #art
October 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
We wrote another newsletter yesterday :) hear us talk about interactive story writing with INK and also a link to playtest enqueue!!
Read it here:
mailchi.mp/7a8d5ca31067...
Sign up for the future:
lauflauf.games/en/simple?op...
#gamedev #indiegames #gaming #games #art
Read it here:
mailchi.mp/7a8d5ca31067...
Sign up for the future:
lauflauf.games/en/simple?op...
#gamedev #indiegames #gaming #games #art