aidan
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aidan
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turning the whole world into a video game @visitdreampark


Some people might not like this, but I'll share it anyway: My 8 year old son over the past couple of months has become more and more interested in game development. It all started with Mario Maker: Friends at his school were playing it, so he wanted to as well and now for months on end he's been making levels and every day I have to test his designs. Over the last few weeks, he came up with his own concept for a game: A First Person "Shooter" where you play a blue pig. Your 'weapon' is a pokeball-like device that you need to throw in order to then swap positions with the ball - so a bit like Portal, but with the challenge being that you'd have to throw the ball and make sure it lands properly like in Worms / Scorched Earth, etc. - and once the ball landed on that higher up platform that you normally can't reach, you press a button to teleport yourself there. I actually quite like that idea, I think that could be fun! I didn't like when he spent time on the iPad watching videos, so recently I gave him my old laptop so he could learn how a computer actually works. I tried to set it up for him in a simple and straight-forward way and he's having much more fun with that now. And since he had his game idea, I also showed him how AI works. Since then, he's been doing nothing but drawing concepts for his game and ask ChatGPT to make his concepts come to life.

We’re on the verge of interactive, real-time, photorealistic video generation with what are called World Models. These require a fair amount of expensive compute, but costs will come down over time. Today, these interactions are essentially real-time dreams. They lack the persistence and shared logic that turns a video into a multiplayer game. Or concert. Or classroom. Or the holodeck. We believe the ultimate architecture for gaming (and the holodeck) is Roblox Reality. It’s a hybrid architecture that marries the structured data and logic of the Roblox Engine and Roblox Cloud with the generative power of Video World Models. The Roblox Engine provides the underlying synchronized ground truth—the score, physics, multiplayer sync, etc.—while our video model acts as a Super Upsampler to layer on photorealistic detail. We believe this will ultimately remove barriers to high-fidelity creation, allowing a team of three people to build a narrative-driven, photorealistic masterpiece in a single week. This is an early look at turning solitary AI dreams into a social, playable reality. about.roblox.com/newsroom/2026/…

Many people do not seem to want data centres built near them, despite the fact that they don't cause that much traffic and often generate a lot of local tax revenue. I suspect it's partly because they're ugly! My proposal:










🧑🚀 Day 7 of the @cursor_ai #vibejam Proudly sponsored by @cursor_ai + @boltdotnew + @heyglif Prizes to win (submit your vibe coded game before May 1!) 🏆 $20,000 🥈 $10,000 🥉 $5,000 Today's games I liked most from the Vibe Jam timeline: 🌏 Tiny Skies by @DannyLimanseta I posted this one before but it's getting really good, beautiful chill vibes with rain drops ✈️ Paper Flock by @lofihashbloom This one similarly also chill vibes and a line drawn art style where you're a paper plane 🧌 Sky Critters by @jasperdeboer First I thought this was like Sim City and it kinda is, you design your city and then you spawn flying monsters and can shoot them down 💅 Slay the Runway by @grah_uk and his 9yo (!) daughter A dress up and runway game with lots of mini games (I think), the 2nd youngest participant, the 1st is 7 years old I believe :D YOU HAVE 22 DAYS LEFT! Reply in this thread with updates on your current games to share your progress, and add tag #vibejam so I see and can include you in the daily tweet There's $35,000 in prizes for you to win, see threads below for more info. The Gold prize is $20,000, bronze is $10,000 and silver is $5,000! Wanna to participate? You can still start now and submit your game any time before May 1! Check the site in the reply for more info!





my april fool is i'm treating twitter like linkedin: I'm looking for my first role outside of university. Collocated mixed reality and technical artistry are my specialties. If you are looking for a creative problem solver with an aesthetic eye, HMU. trev3d.com


At only 22, all three Mercor co-founders have become the youngest self-made billionaires. Overtaking Mark Zuckerberg, who achieved it at 23 two decades earlier.









