Tommy is joined by three of the developers behind ‘Little Learning Machines’: a puzzle game that entrusts players with teaching AI agents called Animos to solve puzzles in a variety of idyllic environments.

With a huge content update coming on September 5th to Steam, Tommy sits down with art director Nick Counter, technical lead Dante Camarena and community manager Fiona Firby from Transitional Forms to discuss the game and the year as they transition from early access to full launch, plus winning awards, delivering talks at GDC, and some of the other work they're up to as well!

Little Learning Machines is available right now on Steam, with a free update coming September 5th:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1993710/Little_Learning_Machines/

Catch the video version of this podcast on @AIandGamesPlus

https://youtu.be/pG7-ubbNZFI

Find out more about Little Learning Machines via the links below.

Website: https://www.transforms.ai/little-learning-machines

Learning Companion (PDF): https://www.transforms.ai/learning

GDC Postmortem Talk: https://gdcvault.com/play/1034597/AI-Summit-Little-Learning-Machines

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Tommy is joined by Dr Christoph Salge and Victoire Herve from the University of Hertfordshire to talk about the 7th annual Generative Design in Minecraft Competition - an event where participants write AI systems to build settlements in Minecraft. We discuss how the project has continued to grow and persist for this long, the community that has thrived around it, and the big challenges still left to face in Minecraft settlement generation.

Find out more about the GDMC by visiting:

https://gendesignmc.wikidot.com/wiki:2024-settlement-generation-competition

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After a summer hiatus the Branching Factor podcast is back! Sorry, I don't think we mentioned we were going talking a break, but hey - here we are!

Tommy fills you in on his travels, the work he's been up to, the stack of episodes we have coming up with some guests. But critically Tommy and George sit down to talk about an event they've put together with a group of friends and colleagues: the 2024 AI and Games Conference! Let's get into the origins of it, how we've set it up, why we think it's needed and more.

Find out more about the event and grab tickets at:

http://www.aiandgamesconference.com

Plus read up on the origins and particulars of the event on Substack:

https://www.aiandgames.com/p/introducing-the-ai-and-games-conference

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