Alberto Alvarez

Exploring game design through human-AI collaboration 👥👾🤖/ Assistant Professor at @malmouni. Working on:

[Qiaosi (Chelsea) Wang @qiaosi_wang]

Can I just say that I am *extremely disappointed* with how #CHI2023 is handling the "hybrid experience" for folks attending online. 🧵

[Alberto Alvarez @aeau]

Excited to co-organize #playatchi23 ! Join us in Hamburg #CHI2023 to discuss ideas and topics surrounding how to connect through social and playful technologies!!

Everyone is welcome: https://t.co/4JZpDj0xxp

[Raquel Breejon Robinson @mediocregiraffe]

Join us for the games and play special interest group at #CHI2023 - this year with a focus on social & playful tech! Co-organized by myself, @aeau, @reganmandryk, @kcisbister, @Pejman_MB, and @mparticulars
#playatchi23

[PCG Workshop @PcgWorkshop]

We are starting now the PCG Workshop at #fdg2023! We got a great program this year (https://t.co/aUa7ZPC9m0) and a busy room. We are really excited for all the presentations and discussions!

[Raquel Breejon Robinson @mediocregiraffe]

The submission deadline has been extended through the weekend to our edu-larp workshop happening both at @acm_chi and @FDGconf this year! Please share widely and submit!
https://t.co/PNp6Zs41F8
https://t.co/cE3uOXlMry

[Katherine Isbister @kcisbister]

#HCI folks, consider writing a position paper for our workshop on EduLarp (educational live action role play) and then join us for fun and idea generation in Hamburg at #CHI2023 this spring! https://t.co/SpWzZcNHUG

[Raquel Breejon Robinson @mediocregiraffe]

Games folks: please consider submitting a short 2-page position paper to our edu-larp (educational live action roleplay) workshop and join us at @FDGconf in Lisbon happening on April 11th!
https://t.co/3qTqmg74tI

[PCG Workshop @PcgWorkshop]

Quick reminder! Submissions to the PCG Workshop at @FDGconf are due today (23:59 AoE)! You still have some hours to submit your cool and interesting work!

[PCG Workshop @PcgWorkshop]

This year we are accepting Full Papers, Short Position Papers, and Demo Submissions.

The deadline for all submissions is Jan 27th, 2023.

[PCG Workshop @PcgWorkshop]

We are four days away from the deadline to submit your work for the 2023 PCG Workshop at @FDGconf! The deadline is February 10th!!

Looking forward to reading your work!

[Sebastian Risi @risi1979]

Application deadline (Feb 1st) coming up! Looking forward to building a great team and getting this project started! Please RT.

[IEEE Conference on Games @ieee_cog]

IEEE CoG 2023 will be in Boston, hosted by Northeastern University, on 21-24 August!

If you seek to publish your research on technical, scientific, & engineering work on video/board/other games, check the call below.

Full paper deadline: 17 March!

CFP: https://t.co/WDODjQEV8O

[PCG Workshop @PcgWorkshop]

We are extending the deadline for the 2023 PCG workshop at @FDGconf to February 10th, 2023!

Updated dates and all details are on https://t.co/QRRQcWDiKY

Please share with interested parties. You now have some extra time to get your cool PCG work sorted out. 💪

[Alberto Alvarez @aeau]

The PCG workshop is back! I am part of the organizers this year and we are very excited to have you present and discuss research during @FDGconf this year!

If you have been working on something cool related to PCG, you shouldn’t miss this opportunity to discuss and showcase!

[PCG Workshop @PcgWorkshop]

The submissions to FDG 2023 PCG Workshops are open!

If you are working on Procedural Content Generation, consider submitting to our Workshop!
PCG 2023 will be hybrid, both in Lisbon, Portugal and on Zoom.

🔗 https://t.co/uIGez8U8IK

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: 48,000 academic workers at the University of California have begun the largest higher education strike in U.S. history. The UC workers, represented by @UAW, are picketing at all 10 UC campuses this morning.

[Julian Togelius @togelius]

I've been looking forward to announce this! Yes, we are growing the company and will be hiring. It's all about game-playing bots to improve testing and other aspects of game development.

[Julian Togelius @togelius]

Time for @aeau's PhD defense! At @malmouni with main advisor @erfont, co-advisors @Zizop and me, and opponent (external examiner) @yannakakis.

[Jose Maria Font @erfont]

On Tuesday Sep 27, 14.30 we're very happy to host @aeau 's PhD dissertation at @malmouni , and proudly having @yannakakis as the opponent.

https://t.co/cW8R1ncKAm

It takes place on MAU's Niagara building and it'll be also livestreamed! You're more than welcome to attend!

[Georgios N. Yannakakis @yannakakis]

This is a photo of over 100 exhausted yet happy people that persistently learned, made awesome AI and Games projects, and had fun for 5 full days! Thank you all for the energy! To the next one! #gameaischool2022

[Julian Togelius @togelius]

Next up: @aeau presenting his work with @erfont and @togelius (yes, me) on a mixed-initiativet tool to create narrative structures.

[Cult of the Lamb @cultofthelamb]

Cult of the Lamb is now available to Pre-order on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox and PC!

We are launching in ONE WEEK so let's grow the Cult 💀

🔃RT and 🐑Follow for a chance to win a copy of the game on any platform! We'll pick 6 more winners if we get to 36,666 Followers