Sean Bouchard

@ndef.itch.io

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Game design professor at USC. Cat person, feminist. (he/him) https://linktr.ee/seanbouchard

Logo for UCI Streaming Lab. Yellow text on purple background.
Julia, the magician’s assistant from The Prestige, drowning in a box during a trick gone wrong.
Tight close up of the face of a brown tabby cat named Arya. She is being held by someone and her head is sticking out over the person’s arm. Prominent whiskers and angry eyebrows. She does not look happy with her situation.
Chris Evans gives Dwayne Johnson a supportive shoulder massage in Red One.
Text: This is like the incarnation of the joke about old school coaches telling players to get the puck in deep on a breakaway
Kiri from Avatar: The Way of Water reaching toward the camera with a half-smile, glowing fish swirling around her, wearing a jellyfish that looks like wings as a backpack
KPop Demon Hunters blue tiger trying to right a toppled pot.
Four birds (burrowing owls?) staring directly into the camera. One has its head tilted amusingly at a slightly more than 90 degree angle.
A printed label on a food product that reads “BESTIFUSEDBY011527CS4313”
A close up of Major Briggs in the Double R Diner from Twin Peaks. It’s the scene where he describes his vision to Bobby.
Al Overview The idiom "a fish only lies about dry land" means that someone is only knowledgeable or trustworthy about a specific topic or area, and that they are unreliable or untruthful when discussing something outside of that area. It suggests that someone is not an expert in all things, and their expertise is limited to their specific domain.
An end-of-game screen from Blue Prince, showing a final layout of 39 rooms on day 17. It’s titled “Mt. Holly, Your New Home.”
Book cover for Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
Highlighted text: The second, much bigger issue is that design ideation is explicitly about thinking up scenarios that change player behaviour. That's what game design is. If I add something that is genuinely new, the model is unlikely to be better or worse at speculating how players might respond than I would be just imagining it myself.
Bolded text: What’s groundbreaking about Muse is its detailed understanding of the 3D game world, including game physics and how the game reacts to players’ controller actions. Normal text continues: This allows the model to create consistent and diverse gameplay rendered by AI, demonstrating a major step toward generative AI models that can empower game creators.
A magnificent lizard, lounging by the side of a hotel swimming pool.