Alan Zucconi
@alanzucconi.com
Director of Studies at Goldsmiths, UoL • Senior Lecturer • Game AI • Game Developer • Shader Master • Content Creator
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Alan Zucconi
@alanzucconi.com
· Nov 9
🎮 Game AI ● Course Presentation
YouTube video by Alan Zucconi
www.youtube.com
It's never too late to learn Game AI! 🦾🤖
Over the past year I created an online course that teaches classical AI in to modern videogames, covering both theory and practice, from Behaviour Trees to Neural Networks. 🧠
(free trial link below 🧵👇)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qED1...
Over the past year I created an online course that teaches classical AI in to modern videogames, covering both theory and practice, from Behaviour Trees to Neural Networks. 🧠
(free trial link below 🧵👇)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qED1...
Reposted by Alan Zucconi
I am kinda missing this madness now! @tommy.aiandgames.com @aphraella.bsky.social @alanzucconi.com @msiemonsmeier.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I am kinda missing this madness now! @tommy.aiandgames.com @aphraella.bsky.social @alanzucconi.com @msiemonsmeier.bsky.social
Reposted by Alan Zucconi
Reminder: Spooky Express is OUT NOW!
🚂🧟🧛
Take charge of the only rail service willing to carry the undead passengers of deepest, darkest Trainsylvania.
Steam: s.team/a/3352310
itch: draknek.itch.io/spooky-express
iOS: apps.apple.com/app/id673842...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
🚂🧟🧛
Take charge of the only rail service willing to carry the undead passengers of deepest, darkest Trainsylvania.
Steam: s.team/a/3352310
itch: draknek.itch.io/spooky-express
iOS: apps.apple.com/app/id673842...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
October 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Reminder: Spooky Express is OUT NOW!
🚂🧟🧛
Take charge of the only rail service willing to carry the undead passengers of deepest, darkest Trainsylvania.
Steam: s.team/a/3352310
itch: draknek.itch.io/spooky-express
iOS: apps.apple.com/app/id673842...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
🚂🧟🧛
Take charge of the only rail service willing to carry the undead passengers of deepest, darkest Trainsylvania.
Steam: s.team/a/3352310
itch: draknek.itch.io/spooky-express
iOS: apps.apple.com/app/id673842...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
A not-so gentle introduction to Orbital Mechanics! 🪐
My longest article is finally out! 📜
80 pages of interactive diagrams, for a deep dive into the fascinating topic of gravity simulations, Keplerian orbits, and orbital elements! 🚀
www.alanzucconi.com/2025/09/04/o...
My longest article is finally out! 📜
80 pages of interactive diagrams, for a deep dive into the fascinating topic of gravity simulations, Keplerian orbits, and orbital elements! 🚀
www.alanzucconi.com/2025/09/04/o...
September 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
A not-so gentle introduction to Orbital Mechanics! 🪐
My longest article is finally out! 📜
80 pages of interactive diagrams, for a deep dive into the fascinating topic of gravity simulations, Keplerian orbits, and orbital elements! 🚀
www.alanzucconi.com/2025/09/04/o...
My longest article is finally out! 📜
80 pages of interactive diagrams, for a deep dive into the fascinating topic of gravity simulations, Keplerian orbits, and orbital elements! 🚀
www.alanzucconi.com/2025/09/04/o...
If you're interested in exoplanets, I've just update the catalogue on my site! 🪐
Where you can see *ALL* the confirmed exoplanetary systems in their full glory! 😎
📏 Up to scale
🌡️ Planet temperatures
💧 Habitable zones
☀️ Stellar types
🪐 Orbit shapes
www.alanzucconi.com/2016/01/20/e...
Where you can see *ALL* the confirmed exoplanetary systems in their full glory! 😎
📏 Up to scale
🌡️ Planet temperatures
💧 Habitable zones
☀️ Stellar types
🪐 Orbit shapes
www.alanzucconi.com/2016/01/20/e...
August 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If you're interested in exoplanets, I've just update the catalogue on my site! 🪐
Where you can see *ALL* the confirmed exoplanetary systems in their full glory! 😎
📏 Up to scale
🌡️ Planet temperatures
💧 Habitable zones
☀️ Stellar types
🪐 Orbit shapes
www.alanzucconi.com/2016/01/20/e...
Where you can see *ALL* the confirmed exoplanetary systems in their full glory! 😎
📏 Up to scale
🌡️ Planet temperatures
💧 Habitable zones
☀️ Stellar types
🪐 Orbit shapes
www.alanzucconi.com/2016/01/20/e...
I'm working on a new explorable article! 🤩
It will cover one of the topics I'm most passionate about: orbital mechanics. 🚀
Get ready for a full derivation of the equations that govern the Keplerian orbits, with full code! 🪐
Is there anything you'd like to see covered? 📃
It will cover one of the topics I'm most passionate about: orbital mechanics. 🚀
Get ready for a full derivation of the equations that govern the Keplerian orbits, with full code! 🪐
Is there anything you'd like to see covered? 📃
August 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I'm working on a new explorable article! 🤩
It will cover one of the topics I'm most passionate about: orbital mechanics. 🚀
Get ready for a full derivation of the equations that govern the Keplerian orbits, with full code! 🪐
Is there anything you'd like to see covered? 📃
It will cover one of the topics I'm most passionate about: orbital mechanics. 🚀
Get ready for a full derivation of the equations that govern the Keplerian orbits, with full code! 🪐
Is there anything you'd like to see covered? 📃
Reposted by Alan Zucconi
Just 1 week left to submit your talk! Don’t wait till the last minute.
Meet our final advisor @alanzucconi.com , Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, one of 5 experts here to help shape your talk.
🎤 Submit by 1 Aug: submit.aiandgamesconference.com
#AIandGames #GameDev #Conference2025
Meet our final advisor @alanzucconi.com , Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, one of 5 experts here to help shape your talk.
🎤 Submit by 1 Aug: submit.aiandgamesconference.com
#AIandGames #GameDev #Conference2025
July 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Just 1 week left to submit your talk! Don’t wait till the last minute.
Meet our final advisor @alanzucconi.com , Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, one of 5 experts here to help shape your talk.
🎤 Submit by 1 Aug: submit.aiandgamesconference.com
#AIandGames #GameDev #Conference2025
Meet our final advisor @alanzucconi.com , Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, one of 5 experts here to help shape your talk.
🎤 Submit by 1 Aug: submit.aiandgamesconference.com
#AIandGames #GameDev #Conference2025
Reposted by Alan Zucconi
Last week, Goldsmiths hosted a 48-hour game development hackathon on campus, with participants working day and night to develop a game around the theme 'bubble'.
January 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Last week, Goldsmiths hosted a 48-hour game development hackathon on campus, with participants working day and night to develop a game around the theme 'bubble'.
Reposted by Alan Zucconi
It's never too late to learn Game AI! 🦾🤖
Over the past year I created an online course that teaches classical AI in to modern videogames, covering both theory and practice, from Behaviour Trees to Neural Networks. 🧠
(free trial link below 🧵👇)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qED1...
Over the past year I created an online course that teaches classical AI in to modern videogames, covering both theory and practice, from Behaviour Trees to Neural Networks. 🧠
(free trial link below 🧵👇)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qED1...
🎮 Game AI ● Course Presentation
YouTube video by Alan Zucconi
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2024 at 5:18 PM
It's never too late to learn Game AI! 🦾🤖
Over the past year I created an online course that teaches classical AI in to modern videogames, covering both theory and practice, from Behaviour Trees to Neural Networks. 🧠
(free trial link below 🧵👇)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qED1...
Over the past year I created an online course that teaches classical AI in to modern videogames, covering both theory and practice, from Behaviour Trees to Neural Networks. 🧠
(free trial link below 🧵👇)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qED1...
So I've heard you're at the @globalgamejam.bsky.social... but does your local site have ACTUAL bubbles? 😏🫧🫧🫧 #GGJ25
January 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
So I've heard you're at the @globalgamejam.bsky.social... but does your local site have ACTUAL bubbles? 😏🫧🫧🫧 #GGJ25
Reposted by Alan Zucconi
Once again, @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social will host the #GGJ25 this year, alongside #GameDevLondon & #UniJam!
📍 Goldsmiths, SE14 6NW, London
🗓️ 24-25-26 January
🌓 Open day & night
☕ On-site cafeteria
🛜 Free WiFi
♿ Accessible venue
Let's make games together! 💪
globalgamejam.org/jam-sites/20...
📍 Goldsmiths, SE14 6NW, London
🗓️ 24-25-26 January
🌓 Open day & night
☕ On-site cafeteria
🛜 Free WiFi
♿ Accessible venue
Let's make games together! 💪
globalgamejam.org/jam-sites/20...
GDL @ Goldsmiths + UniJam GGJ25 | Global Game Jam
Game Dev Local, Goldsmiths, University of London and Uni Jam welcome you all to the Global Game Jam 2025! Join us once again to make games on the largest GGJ site in the UK, now in full hybrid mode: O...
globalgamejam.org
January 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Once again, @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social will host the #GGJ25 this year, alongside #GameDevLondon & #UniJam!
📍 Goldsmiths, SE14 6NW, London
🗓️ 24-25-26 January
🌓 Open day & night
☕ On-site cafeteria
🛜 Free WiFi
♿ Accessible venue
Let's make games together! 💪
globalgamejam.org/jam-sites/20...
📍 Goldsmiths, SE14 6NW, London
🗓️ 24-25-26 January
🌓 Open day & night
☕ On-site cafeteria
🛜 Free WiFi
♿ Accessible venue
Let's make games together! 💪
globalgamejam.org/jam-sites/20...
Can we PLEASE have a game jam where people actually MAKES those games? 👀
Very much here for the staff of IKEA inventing fake board games for their room display
January 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Can we PLEASE have a game jam where people actually MAKES those games? 👀
Reposted by Alan Zucconi
It's undeniable that the "Creatures" series had a massive impact on many of the young kids who played it. 🐻
In case you missed this forgotten gem from the late 90s, the best way to describe it is a "Tamagotchi on steroids". 🐣
But if you want to learn more, stick with me for this thread! 🧵👇
In case you missed this forgotten gem from the late 90s, the best way to describe it is a "Tamagotchi on steroids". 🐣
But if you want to learn more, stick with me for this thread! 🧵👇
November 15, 2024 at 3:34 PM
It's undeniable that the "Creatures" series had a massive impact on many of the young kids who played it. 🐻
In case you missed this forgotten gem from the late 90s, the best way to describe it is a "Tamagotchi on steroids". 🐣
But if you want to learn more, stick with me for this thread! 🧵👇
In case you missed this forgotten gem from the late 90s, the best way to describe it is a "Tamagotchi on steroids". 🐣
But if you want to learn more, stick with me for this thread! 🧵👇
Once again, @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social will host the #GGJ25 this year, alongside #GameDevLondon & #UniJam!
📍 Goldsmiths, SE14 6NW, London
🗓️ 24-25-26 January
🌓 Open day & night
☕ On-site cafeteria
🛜 Free WiFi
♿ Accessible venue
Let's make games together! 💪
globalgamejam.org/jam-sites/20...
📍 Goldsmiths, SE14 6NW, London
🗓️ 24-25-26 January
🌓 Open day & night
☕ On-site cafeteria
🛜 Free WiFi
♿ Accessible venue
Let's make games together! 💪
globalgamejam.org/jam-sites/20...
GDL @ Goldsmiths + UniJam GGJ25 | Global Game Jam
Game Dev Local, Goldsmiths, University of London and Uni Jam welcome you all to the Global Game Jam 2025! Join us once again to make games on the largest GGJ site in the UK, now in full hybrid mode: O...
globalgamejam.org
January 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Once again, @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social will host the #GGJ25 this year, alongside #GameDevLondon & #UniJam!
📍 Goldsmiths, SE14 6NW, London
🗓️ 24-25-26 January
🌓 Open day & night
☕ On-site cafeteria
🛜 Free WiFi
♿ Accessible venue
Let's make games together! 💪
globalgamejam.org/jam-sites/20...
📍 Goldsmiths, SE14 6NW, London
🗓️ 24-25-26 January
🌓 Open day & night
☕ On-site cafeteria
🛜 Free WiFi
♿ Accessible venue
Let's make games together! 💪
globalgamejam.org/jam-sites/20...
Reposted by Alan Zucconi
After more than a year on Steam, our award-winning horror game, with an 80 on Metacritic, has finally received 50 reviews, 90% of which are positive. That amounts to around 4,000 copies sold. #gamesarefine
January 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
After more than a year on Steam, our award-winning horror game, with an 80 on Metacritic, has finally received 50 reviews, 90% of which are positive. That amounts to around 4,000 copies sold. #gamesarefine
Reposted by Alan Zucconi
Announcement: The 2024/25 cohort of the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant have now been selected!
https://grants.draknek.org/
We're excited to introduce you to the six indie thinky puzzle developers this year's grant and mentorship will be supporting, in the thread below 🧵
https://grants.draknek.org/
We're excited to introduce you to the six indie thinky puzzle developers this year's grant and mentorship will be supporting, in the thread below 🧵
January 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Announcement: The 2024/25 cohort of the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant have now been selected!
https://grants.draknek.org/
We're excited to introduce you to the six indie thinky puzzle developers this year's grant and mentorship will be supporting, in the thread below 🧵
https://grants.draknek.org/
We're excited to introduce you to the six indie thinky puzzle developers this year's grant and mentorship will be supporting, in the thread below 🧵
Currently working on my longest article as of today.
20+ graphs so far, and counting... 📈
20+ graphs so far, and counting... 📈
January 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Currently working on my longest article as of today.
20+ graphs so far, and counting... 📈
20+ graphs so far, and counting... 📈
Reposted by Alan Zucconi
Remember the AI / copyright consultation? I'm having dinner with one of its principle authors on Friday. What should I say to them?
Bear in mind, they aren't responsible for govt policy, but are involved in its execution, and they can frame how the response to the consultation is received.
Bear in mind, they aren't responsible for govt policy, but are involved in its execution, and they can frame how the response to the consultation is received.
January 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Remember the AI / copyright consultation? I'm having dinner with one of its principle authors on Friday. What should I say to them?
Bear in mind, they aren't responsible for govt policy, but are involved in its execution, and they can frame how the response to the consultation is received.
Bear in mind, they aren't responsible for govt policy, but are involved in its execution, and they can frame how the response to the consultation is received.
New year, new tutorial.
Can you guess what I'm working? 🤓
Can you guess what I'm working? 🤓
January 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New year, new tutorial.
Can you guess what I'm working? 🤓
Can you guess what I'm working? 🤓
Reposted by Alan Zucconi
Make learning Game AI your New Year's resolution. 🎮
This online course covers everything you need to know about classical Game AI, from theory to practice. 🤖
And it's 50% until January! 🎟️👇
alanzucconi.thinkific.com/courses/game...
This online course covers everything you need to know about classical Game AI, from theory to practice. 🤖
And it's 50% until January! 🎟️👇
alanzucconi.thinkific.com/courses/game...
December 23, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Make learning Game AI your New Year's resolution. 🎮
This online course covers everything you need to know about classical Game AI, from theory to practice. 🤖
And it's 50% until January! 🎟️👇
alanzucconi.thinkific.com/courses/game...
This online course covers everything you need to know about classical Game AI, from theory to practice. 🤖
And it's 50% until January! 🎟️👇
alanzucconi.thinkific.com/courses/game...
since its the end of the year, what's your most popular shader?
December 29, 2024 at 6:50 PM
since its the end of the year, what's your most popular shader?
Let's not forget that in-game hints are not just a quirky design choice, but an ESSENTIAL part of making your game ACCESSIBLE for players with visual or cognitive impairment! ♿
There's a reason if many games—from "Tomb Raider" to "The Last of Us Part II"—use them! 👏
www.ign.com/videos/yello...
There's a reason if many games—from "Tomb Raider" to "The Last of Us Part II"—use them! 👏
www.ign.com/videos/yello...
Yellow Paint in Video Games Needs to Stop - IGN
Yellow paint in video games isn’t a new complaint, but the last couple of years have seen it rise to prominence. Both yellow paint in Resident Evil 4 and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth stoked the online deba...
www.ign.com
December 29, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Let's not forget that in-game hints are not just a quirky design choice, but an ESSENTIAL part of making your game ACCESSIBLE for players with visual or cognitive impairment! ♿
There's a reason if many games—from "Tomb Raider" to "The Last of Us Part II"—use them! 👏
www.ign.com/videos/yello...
There's a reason if many games—from "Tomb Raider" to "The Last of Us Part II"—use them! 👏
www.ign.com/videos/yello...
Reposted by Alan Zucconi
Son hormigas resolviendo un problema geométrico y es para flipar en colores.
December 25, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Son hormigas resolviendo un problema geométrico y es para flipar en colores.
Reposted by Alan Zucconi
A gentle reminder that Johnathon Selstad has compiled one of the best libraries of mathematical tools for Unity. 📊
Inverse kinematics, Bézier functions, Kalman filters, soft bodies, and much more.
If you are a game developer, this is a game-changer!
👇
github.com/zalo/MathUti...
Inverse kinematics, Bézier functions, Kalman filters, soft bodies, and much more.
If you are a game developer, this is a game-changer!
👇
github.com/zalo/MathUti...
December 8, 2024 at 5:28 PM
A gentle reminder that Johnathon Selstad has compiled one of the best libraries of mathematical tools for Unity. 📊
Inverse kinematics, Bézier functions, Kalman filters, soft bodies, and much more.
If you are a game developer, this is a game-changer!
👇
github.com/zalo/MathUti...
Inverse kinematics, Bézier functions, Kalman filters, soft bodies, and much more.
If you are a game developer, this is a game-changer!
👇
github.com/zalo/MathUti...
Make learning Game AI your New Year's resolution. 🎮
This online course covers everything you need to know about classical Game AI, from theory to practice. 🤖
And it's 50% until January! 🎟️👇
alanzucconi.thinkific.com/courses/game...
This online course covers everything you need to know about classical Game AI, from theory to practice. 🤖
And it's 50% until January! 🎟️👇
alanzucconi.thinkific.com/courses/game...
December 23, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Make learning Game AI your New Year's resolution. 🎮
This online course covers everything you need to know about classical Game AI, from theory to practice. 🤖
And it's 50% until January! 🎟️👇
alanzucconi.thinkific.com/courses/game...
This online course covers everything you need to know about classical Game AI, from theory to practice. 🤖
And it's 50% until January! 🎟️👇
alanzucconi.thinkific.com/courses/game...