Perttu Hämäläinen
@perttu-h.bsky.social
Researching and building games/VR/XR/HCI/AI. Assoc. Prof. @AaltoUniversity. Advisor @valomotion, @HypeHypeInc. Student of human movement (dance,🧗♂️,🤸♂️,🥋…)
New game design theory and a dataset of emotionally impactful game feel designs:
Prabhav Bhatnagar et al.: Beyond Satisfaction: Game Feel Design for Emotionally Impactful Experiences (Early career best paper award!) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Prabhav Bhatnagar et al.: Beyond Satisfaction: Game Feel Design for Emotionally Impactful Experiences (Early career best paper award!) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
May 14, 2025 at 6:54 AM
New game design theory and a dataset of emotionally impactful game feel designs:
Prabhav Bhatnagar et al.: Beyond Satisfaction: Game Feel Design for Emotionally Impactful Experiences (Early career best paper award!) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Prabhav Bhatnagar et al.: Beyond Satisfaction: Game Feel Design for Emotionally Impactful Experiences (Early career best paper award!) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
New papers: FDG 2025 proceedings are finally out and I'm super proud and excited about these two 🧵
May 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM
New papers: FDG 2025 proceedings are finally out and I'm super proud and excited about these two 🧵
Aalto's game design Itch page updated: aalto-gamedesign.itch.io
April 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Aalto's game design Itch page updated: aalto-gamedesign.itch.io
A nice structured collection of AI papers github.com/FoundationAg...
April 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A nice structured collection of AI papers github.com/FoundationAg...
My first "fanboy" game research paper (CHI 2025)! I'm a huge Dark Souls and Elden Ring fan and in this paper, we study how DS players discuss depression on Reddit. I developed the AI-assistance part of the analysis process. acris.aalto.fi/ws/portalfil...
March 31, 2025 at 7:50 AM
My first "fanboy" game research paper (CHI 2025)! I'm a huge Dark Souls and Elden Ring fan and in this paper, we study how DS players discuss depression on Reddit. I developed the AI-assistance part of the analysis process. acris.aalto.fi/ws/portalfil...
Today’s game design teaching materials
March 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Today’s game design teaching materials
Abishek Jaiswal (game designer/developer at Valo Motion, an Aalto games graduate) gave a super nice talk yesterday about designing Valo Motion's games where the players see their own bodies inside the game world www.twitch.tv/videos/23959...
March 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Abishek Jaiswal (game designer/developer at Valo Motion, an Aalto games graduate) gave a super nice talk yesterday about designing Valo Motion's games where the players see their own bodies inside the game world www.twitch.tv/videos/23959...
A really cool paper on why transformers need coordinate-wise adaptive learning rate openreview.net/pdf/32bac765...
December 21, 2024 at 7:24 AM
A really cool paper on why transformers need coordinate-wise adaptive learning rate openreview.net/pdf/32bac765...
Yay, a bi-decennial website update! users.aalto.fi/~hamalap5/
December 8, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Yay, a bi-decennial website update! users.aalto.fi/~hamalap5/
Meta Llama 3.3 LLM out. Beats gpt-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 at a fraction of the token cost and is open source. www.llama.com
Disclaimer: I’d like AI to clean and do the dishes, not replace human creative work. But whatever we use AI for, I’d prefer it to be open source.
Disclaimer: I’d like AI to clean and do the dishes, not replace human creative work. But whatever we use AI for, I’d prefer it to be open source.
December 7, 2024 at 6:16 AM
Meta Llama 3.3 LLM out. Beats gpt-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 at a fraction of the token cost and is open source. www.llama.com
Disclaimer: I’d like AI to clean and do the dishes, not replace human creative work. But whatever we use AI for, I’d prefer it to be open source.
Disclaimer: I’d like AI to clean and do the dishes, not replace human creative work. But whatever we use AI for, I’d prefer it to be open source.
TIL employee monitoring software with AI is a thing 😭 It’s of course only temporary, as it eventually provides the training data needed for automating the work. For once, I’m happy about the EU AI and data privacy laws that probably prevent this here. Or do they? www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/s...
November 24, 2024 at 6:24 AM
TIL employee monitoring software with AI is a thing 😭 It’s of course only temporary, as it eventually provides the training data needed for automating the work. For once, I’m happy about the EU AI and data privacy laws that probably prevent this here. Or do they? www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/s...