Ahmed Khalifa
@amidos2006.bsky.social
Egyptian Game Designer | AI Researcher @ UM | He/They
🎮: amidos2006.itch.io
📚: scholar.google.com/citations?user=DRcyg5kAAAAJ
🎮: amidos2006.itch.io
📚: scholar.google.com/citations?user=DRcyg5kAAAAJ
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Ahmed Khalifa
@amidos2006.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
Just when you thought there couldn't possibly be any more balatro inspired rogue-lites... I went ahead and made another one with dice scoring mechanics.
rentonl.itch.io/pip-pip-hooray
#roguelite #balatro #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev
rentonl.itch.io/pip-pip-hooray
#roguelite #balatro #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev
PIP PIP HOORAY! by rentonl, Joyce Lee
A crazy dice-building, yahtzee-scoring, rogue-lite where you'll need both luck and strategy to win.
rentonl.itch.io
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Just when you thought there couldn't possibly be any more balatro inspired rogue-lites... I went ahead and made another one with dice scoring mechanics.
rentonl.itch.io/pip-pip-hooray
#roguelite #balatro #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev
rentonl.itch.io/pip-pip-hooray
#roguelite #balatro #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev
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Coming in Spring 2026: Oeuf, a 3D physics platformer where U egg. Wishlist innit. store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/...
Oeuf on Steam
3D physics-platformer where you are an egg! Roll, hop and slide your way back home.
store.steampowered.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Coming in Spring 2026: Oeuf, a 3D physics platformer where U egg. Wishlist innit. store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/...
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New Game: Egg terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg
Egg by Terry Cavanagh
why not be an egg
terrycavanagh.itch.io
October 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
New Game: Egg terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg
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raw as hell and super-well-done flicksy by @amidos2006.bsky.social (cw for slurs and institutional homophobic violence) amidos2006.itch.io/queen-boat
Queen Boat by Ahmed Khalifa (Amidos2006)
An LGBT story inspired by real events.
amidos2006.itch.io
November 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
raw as hell and super-well-done flicksy by @amidos2006.bsky.social (cw for slurs and institutional homophobic violence) amidos2006.itch.io/queen-boat
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🎮 @amidos2006.bsky.social was interviewed by @trueavatars.bsky.social at the @qgcon.bsky.social where he was presenting his game: Queen Boat.
🎧 Read more and listen to Ahmed’s interview
👉 game.edu.mt/blog/queen-b...
#GameStudies #SeriousGames #LGBTQ #IndieGames
🎧 Read more and listen to Ahmed’s interview
👉 game.edu.mt/blog/queen-b...
#GameStudies #SeriousGames #LGBTQ #IndieGames
October 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🎮 @amidos2006.bsky.social was interviewed by @trueavatars.bsky.social at the @qgcon.bsky.social where he was presenting his game: Queen Boat.
🎧 Read more and listen to Ahmed’s interview
👉 game.edu.mt/blog/queen-b...
#GameStudies #SeriousGames #LGBTQ #IndieGames
🎧 Read more and listen to Ahmed’s interview
👉 game.edu.mt/blog/queen-b...
#GameStudies #SeriousGames #LGBTQ #IndieGames
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
finished! this was a good time, loved the main twist on platforming language and the masocore levels were a pleasant surprise. (note that the down key is required for a verb later on, and it didn't work on my xinput d-pad, only the analog stick. that was my only wrinkle in an otherwise rad game)
October 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
finished! this was a good time, loved the main twist on platforming language and the masocore levels were a pleasant surprise. (note that the down key is required for a verb later on, and it didn't work on my xinput d-pad, only the analog stick. that was my only wrinkle in an otherwise rad game)
I am one of the editors for the upcoming Transaction on Games special issue :) The special issue is about "Multi-Modal Content Generation for Games." One topic that excites me the most is the orchestration between different facets of content generation.
(1/5)
#PCG #AI #ML #GenAI #AIandGames
(1/5)
#PCG #AI #ML #GenAI #AIandGames
October 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I am one of the editors for the upcoming Transaction on Games special issue :) The special issue is about "Multi-Modal Content Generation for Games." One topic that excites me the most is the orchestration between different facets of content generation.
(1/5)
#PCG #AI #ML #GenAI #AIandGames
(1/5)
#PCG #AI #ML #GenAI #AIandGames
My friends have just released their amazing poetry-based visual novel. Go support them and buy it if you are into cute games and poetry :)
#gamedev #indiedev #poetry #poetrygames #releaseweek #retweet #screenshotsaturday
#gamedev #indiedev #poetry #poetrygames #releaseweek #retweet #screenshotsaturday
Sips and Sonnets is officially OUT NOW!!!
🫖 Make Tea
📝 Write Poetry
🤍 Reminisce
🗣️ Full Voiceover
Our 2nd game humbly invites you to Meadows' Tearoom. 😊 Our heartfelt gratitude goes to everyone who made it possible. Make some tea before you play! 🍵
🫖 Make Tea
📝 Write Poetry
🤍 Reminisce
🗣️ Full Voiceover
Our 2nd game humbly invites you to Meadows' Tearoom. 😊 Our heartfelt gratitude goes to everyone who made it possible. Make some tea before you play! 🍵
September 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
My friends have just released their amazing poetry-based visual novel. Go support them and buy it if you are into cute games and poetry :)
#gamedev #indiedev #poetry #poetrygames #releaseweek #retweet #screenshotsaturday
#gamedev #indiedev #poetry #poetrygames #releaseweek #retweet #screenshotsaturday
Congratulations :) That is amazing :) Next time, I am in the US, I will go to @barnesandnoble.com to see it on the shelves :)
Excited to share that my new novel, 'What We Owe the Dead,' is now available to readers across the Americas.
It is a strange detective story set against the backdrop of ecological collapse.
You can now find 'What we Owe the Dead' through all major booksellers! CC @freeklomme.bsky.social
It is a strange detective story set against the backdrop of ecological collapse.
You can now find 'What we Owe the Dead' through all major booksellers! CC @freeklomme.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Congratulations :) That is amazing :) Next time, I am in the US, I will go to @barnesandnoble.com to see it on the shelves :)
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
We introduce PuzzleJAX, a benchmark for reasoning and learning. 🧩💡🦎
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
August 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
Please we are still looking for more human data for our project :)
Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :)
#research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle
Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :)
#research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle
We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
We introduce PuzzleJAX, a benchmark for reasoning and learning. 🧩💡🦎
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
September 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Please we are still looking for more human data for our project :)
Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :)
#research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle
Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :)
#research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle
Please we are still looking for more human data for our project :)
Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :)
#research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle
Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :)
#research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle
We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
We introduce PuzzleJAX, a benchmark for reasoning and learning. 🧩💡🦎
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
September 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Please we are still looking for more human data for our project :)
Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :)
#research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle
Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :)
#research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
Great tool by our researchers to help #AI students and researchers in comparing their algorithmic advancements (in #PCG, #LLMs #GenAI) with as little friction as possible.
Full thread with links and explanation by @amidos2006.bsky.social 👇
Full thread with links and explanation by @amidos2006.bsky.social 👇
We (I, Matthew Barthet, Roberto Gallotta, Antonios Liapis, @togelius.bsky.social, Georgios Yannakakis) would like to announce the Procedural Content Generation Benchmark (PCG Benchmark).
The PCG Benchmark allows users working in PCG research to test their algorithms against a variety of games.
The PCG Benchmark allows users working in PCG research to test their algorithms against a variety of games.
August 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Great tool by our researchers to help #AI students and researchers in comparing their algorithmic advancements (in #PCG, #LLMs #GenAI) with as little friction as possible.
Full thread with links and explanation by @amidos2006.bsky.social 👇
Full thread with links and explanation by @amidos2006.bsky.social 👇
We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
We introduce PuzzleJAX, a benchmark for reasoning and learning. 🧩💡🦎
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
August 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
We introduce PuzzleJAX, a benchmark for reasoning and learning. 🧩💡🦎
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
August 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
We introduce PuzzleJAX, a benchmark for reasoning and learning. 🧩💡🦎
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
Next week (on September the 3rd), I will be talking about my 2024 book at the
@festivaletteratura.it
>> www.festivaletteratura.it/it/home
My talk will be in in Italian, and tickets are still available!
>> www.clappit.com/biglietteria... <<
If you're in Mantova next week, come and say hi :)
@festivaletteratura.it
>> www.festivaletteratura.it/it/home
My talk will be in in Italian, and tickets are still available!
>> www.clappit.com/biglietteria... <<
If you're in Mantova next week, come and say hi :)
August 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Next week (on September the 3rd), I will be talking about my 2024 book at the
@festivaletteratura.it
>> www.festivaletteratura.it/it/home
My talk will be in in Italian, and tickets are still available!
>> www.clappit.com/biglietteria... <<
If you're in Mantova next week, come and say hi :)
@festivaletteratura.it
>> www.festivaletteratura.it/it/home
My talk will be in in Italian, and tickets are still available!
>> www.clappit.com/biglietteria... <<
If you're in Mantova next week, come and say hi :)
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
We’re not just about making games, we're about #research.
🔬 Our strong research focus highlighted by StudyInternational.com as one of the programmes inspiring future #gamedesigners alongside Abertay and @nyugamecenter.bsky.social
🔗 studyinternational.com/news/3-unive...
🔬 Our strong research focus highlighted by StudyInternational.com as one of the programmes inspiring future #gamedesigners alongside Abertay and @nyugamecenter.bsky.social
🔗 studyinternational.com/news/3-unive...
3 universities that’ll level up your game design career
The best game design programmes don’t just focus on game design – they explore and help you master the other aspects of making amazing games too.
studyinternational.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
We’re not just about making games, we're about #research.
🔬 Our strong research focus highlighted by StudyInternational.com as one of the programmes inspiring future #gamedesigners alongside Abertay and @nyugamecenter.bsky.social
🔗 studyinternational.com/news/3-unive...
🔬 Our strong research focus highlighted by StudyInternational.com as one of the programmes inspiring future #gamedesigners alongside Abertay and @nyugamecenter.bsky.social
🔗 studyinternational.com/news/3-unive...
#QueenBoat is part of this amazing bundle. The bundle has a great number of games by tons of creators. Don't miss it.
It’s live!
The Game Devs of Color Support Bundle is here!💚🩵
🎮 100+ items from 70+ creators
💰 Just $10 (worth ~$409)
🫶🏾 Save 97% + support GDoC programs
Every purchase helps fund events, grants, scholarships & more that uplift #gamedev of color!
👉 Grab the bundle now: itch.io/b/3171/game-...
The Game Devs of Color Support Bundle is here!💚🩵
🎮 100+ items from 70+ creators
💰 Just $10 (worth ~$409)
🫶🏾 Save 97% + support GDoC programs
Every purchase helps fund events, grants, scholarships & more that uplift #gamedev of color!
👉 Grab the bundle now: itch.io/b/3171/game-...
August 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
#QueenBoat is part of this amazing bundle. The bundle has a great number of games by tons of creators. Don't miss it.
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
'Between Puppet and Actor: Reframing Authorship in This Age of AI Agents', by Yuqian Sun and Stefano Gualeni, examines the conceptual tensions in understanding #AI agents’ role in creative processes, particularly focusing on Large Language Models. bit.ly/4fGwN8U #BookSky
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
'Between Puppet and Actor: Reframing Authorship in This Age of AI Agents', by Yuqian Sun and Stefano Gualeni, examines the conceptual tensions in understanding #AI agents’ role in creative processes, particularly focusing on Large Language Models. bit.ly/4fGwN8U #BookSky
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proudly presenting DANIEL LINSSEN'S TYPING CHALLENGE, educational software to help you type quickly under pressure
managore.itch.io/daniel-linss... (web)
managore.itch.io/daniel-linss... (web)
July 6, 2025 at 7:58 AM
proudly presenting DANIEL LINSSEN'S TYPING CHALLENGE, educational software to help you type quickly under pressure
managore.itch.io/daniel-linss... (web)
managore.itch.io/daniel-linss... (web)
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July 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
Mark your calendars! 30/06 18.30 CET, as part of DiGRA 2025 at the University of Malta, I'm thrilled to be co-chairing Games at the Crossroads - a public discussion with a great lineup of speakers! Livestreamed on Zoom, free attendance - just sign up to receive the link: forms.gle/jmwCWyLQtof5...
June 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Mark your calendars! 30/06 18.30 CET, as part of DiGRA 2025 at the University of Malta, I'm thrilled to be co-chairing Games at the Crossroads - a public discussion with a great lineup of speakers! Livestreamed on Zoom, free attendance - just sign up to receive the link: forms.gle/jmwCWyLQtof5...
Become the moon is just out, it is a great autobattling deckbuilding game by my amazing friend @benal.itch.io and other amazing people :) Go buy it now, you will enjoy it a lot :)
Become the moon is out! It’s a deckbuilding autobattler and is very good. I can’t pitch it any better than that worry store.steampowered.com/app/2862890/...
Save 15% on Become the Moon on Steam
The deckbuilding auto battler. Draft cards, collect relics, and cast spells to create game-breaking combos. Assemble a team of oddballs and misfits, and shoot for the moon!
store.steampowered.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Become the moon is just out, it is a great autobattling deckbuilding game by my amazing friend @benal.itch.io and other amazing people :) Go buy it now, you will enjoy it a lot :)
Reposted by Ahmed Khalifa
Become the moon is out! It’s a deckbuilding autobattler and is very good. I can’t pitch it any better than that worry store.steampowered.com/app/2862890/...
Save 15% on Become the Moon on Steam
The deckbuilding auto battler. Draft cards, collect relics, and cast spells to create game-breaking combos. Assemble a team of oddballs and misfits, and shoot for the moon!
store.steampowered.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Become the moon is out! It’s a deckbuilding autobattler and is very good. I can’t pitch it any better than that worry store.steampowered.com/app/2862890/...