ZS @LogicalDash@mastodon.babycastles.com
There's a thing where he messed around with the GPT2 model from OpenAI
There's too much to write it up on my phone, I'll get it later
Here's a new thing where instead of picking words from a menu you have to play notes on a keyboard to steer a pointer to the word you want. Inspired by Dasher, but on the word level and not just letters, so it's called Dancer
He got the word "baby" after like four tries
Jamie performed this song written by the default model of the Google English keyboard
Jamie Brew of Botnik Studios
Botnik is an AI company. It makes machines that write the way humans to. Every word should be a struggle
English is already incredibly frustrating
The rest of the narration didn't make a lot of sense but at one point Jamie referred to JennChat as Botnik's main competitor and Jenn said "you're going down, bro!"
Emoji are like words. When glitch autocommits your project, it names that with a couple emoji and those need to be friendly. She removed the knife emoji recently. That's the friendly-emoji package
Last open projector Natalie Braginsky @natling @natling
Generative animated pixel art
She likes making spectrograms of her music. Now she's layering them and blending them, mostly regular CSS tricks with some promises (the javascript thing)
She gave the website but I forgot it because I was trying to compress video. Argh
Next up Maxwell Mealy Colin
Presenting a port of Street Fighter 2 with a cast of new york literary figures
We get to look at robert's next game, about erotic webcam performances. With a deckbuilding mechanic. There's a fake chatroom in the game, which for ease of localization is done entirely in emoji
He'll have to localize the usernames still, but those make no sense to begin with so don't worry? Or he'll replace them with avatars?
Conclusion: don't trust words
And that's #wordHack
Roughly 80% of players prefer to play Rinse and Repeat in some language other than English
Yang didn't really think about this until he played Noserudake2. Before that it was like "but I'm just trying to make a random little free thing" but then this random game about throwing crap on a pedestal still had a language switch
And finally Robert Yang, talking about the challenges of localizing his games, about gay culture and intimacy, for other cultures
It takes a while to set up so Todd talks about the architecture options provided by Fortnite
Robert shows a clip from Rinse and Repeat for context...but notice the subtitles! They need to tell you if you are rubbing the dude too fast or too slow
Bill demonstrates DeluxePaint, which can be used for pretty sophisticated animations
You have to deal with a single layer of undo history and there aren't any real rulers so you have to count pixels all the time
Next up is AmigaBill, who is giving a presentation from a real hardware Commodore Amiga, piped thru a modern laptop for projector purposes
And now our first feature presenter, Emily Corvi, internet linguist who thinks silly questions often yield profound answers
The Bag, The Myth, The Legend
A presentation applying discourse analysis (in the semiotic sense) to Pobomic
And the final open projector, Sophie Searcy
Making Faces
A generative adversarial network, with convolutional something, that generates images of faces
Turns a vector like "has bangs, is old, has makeup" and turns it into a picture
It's like a classifier run in reverse. Learns the "distribution" of the training data, the world of faces
Take a vector of man w. Glasses, subtract man w/o glasses, add woman w/o glasses, you get woman w/ glasses
Open projector #2
Matthew Balousek
Response to Matt O'leary's Final Fantasy 7 GameFAQs poems. This one mixes in some queer slashfic. The "Daniel" voice synth reads this out
And this other one is from the ASCII art that shows up in every GameFAQ. "Alex" voice synth reads this one by saying the name of each individual character with varying intonation. "Kate" does the same but ignores the underscores
The soundtrack to #GamesAboutProtest is literally angry dog noises
Can you do that on text? You can, using traditional poetry meters like sonnets. They implemented this https://github.com/mewo2/oisin
Actually sonnets don't work all that great. Until you feed them a GameFAQs walkthrough as a corpus
The bot, then, is a constraint solving problem within whatever frame you've set up
You have to construct the right frame for your particular problem-space
For more info, see her talk tomorrow at the CUNY NLP reading group. She's trying to automate the process of frame generation from a corpus!
