justin waldron

founder @playableint
co-founder @zynga, @playco

[justin waldron @jtwald]

To win now, build the thing that builds the things that build the things.

[justin waldron @jtwald]

@mrdoob Not everyone, yet

[justin waldron @jtwald]

@McReynoldsJoe very well. give it a shot

[justin waldron @jtwald]

Check it out at https://t.co/fXdd5NsEiv

[justin waldron @jtwald]

excited to introduce @playco's playbot, a pro game creation IDE with @OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra.

https://t.co/xA0vGWyS5o

[Chetaslua @chetaslua]

Holy Shit GPT-6 Astra is cooking full games now 😱

Playco gave it one grey box kart prototype
> 3 themed games in one go , pirate / candy / cyberpunk
> most worked first try
> 50% fewer manual fixes vs previous model

it plays the game inside unity and fixes its own bugs

[KBW2026 @kbwofficial]

KBW2026 @playableint: @jtwald

Justin Waldron (Founder & CEO, Playable Intelligence) is confirmed for KBW2026 this fall. After co-founding Zynga and helping pioneer social gaming, Waldron is now using AI to make game creation more accessible and enable anyone to turn an idea into a global hit.

Get your tickets and use code KBW2026SNS at checkout for 10% off. ⬇️

[justin waldron @jtwald]

America is a Very Large Country with Very Large Companies 🇺🇸

[European Commission @EU_Commission]

We have designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms under the Digital Services Act.

They now have four months to comply with additional DSA obligations.

More: https://t.co/gIR8vTolmB

#DSA

[justin waldron @jtwald]

Remember when people paid thousands of dollars for photoshop?

We are in that part of the cycle

[justin waldron @jtwald]

Needs to be said again
Code is the new media

[justin waldron @jtwald]

Needs to be said again
Code is the new media

[justin waldron @jtwald]

first, free consumer ai
then, free coding tokens when you deploy their ads in your products on their vertical stack

[justin waldron @jtwald]

first, free consumer ai
then, free coding tokens when you deploy their ads in your products on their vertical stack

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: OpenAI’s advertising business has hit a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate only 200 days after launch.

[justin waldron @jtwald]

Knowing what to make is underrated

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

Coding in 2026:

100x side projects
0x actually shipping side projects

[justin waldron @jtwald]

Excited to be judging this 100-hour OpenAI game challenge in Tokyo - $100k+ in prizes.

If you’ve been building games with AI agents, apply.

[Anna Mutoh @anna_mutoh]

Applications now OPEN for the Tokyo AI | OpenAI 100-Hour Game Builder Challenge. Apply until Sept 10 or when spots are filled. >$100K in OpenAI prizes up for grabs. Judges include gaming, AI, and anime pioneers and leaders. More on LUMA.
👉 https://t.co/DhR4xCnel6

[justin waldron @jtwald]

@BrianNorgard Would love to check it out

[justin waldron @jtwald]

@kurorosage @markpinc @startupoppa It won’t be a TikTok for games

What’s been missing from all of these is both new and better. Players aren’t asking for more hyper casual games in a TikTok UI

Will share what we are doing soon

[justin waldron @jtwald]

Models are the new code

[justin waldron @jtwald]

Code is the new media

[justin waldron @jtwald]

Code is the new media

[justin waldron @jtwald]

Mind reading is coming.
Researchers reversed AI-generated text back to the original prompt.
Apply the same method to human speech, and we may eventually recover the thoughts that produced it.

[justin waldron @jtwald]

imagine before AI 😂

[AzFlin 🗿 @AzFlin]

making video games is incredibly difficulty

and if you're doing it to make a living you're basically a masochist

[justin waldron @jtwald]

'3D Graphics are the Spawn of Satan"
"The game industry’s mass polygon-hysteria is definitely devil-induced, and if it doesn’t end up killing us all, it will certainly condemn us to obscurity and irrelevance…"
- François-Dominic Laramée (Game designer / writer), November 1999

[justin waldron @jtwald]

GTA 6 will be remembered as the last major game made by humans alone

[justin waldron @jtwald]

RIP AAA. Long live AIAIAI

[justin waldron @jtwald]

GTA 6 will be remembered as the last major game made by humans alone