Here’s the latest links. I was travelling the last two weeks, so I missed a week, and this one is late, but here we are: The staggering death toll of scientific lies Finally, yes please: Artificial intelligence is losing hype From the ‘absolute crap’ department: Peloton announces $95 “used equipment activation fee” Magic moment: Sydney aquarium filled with song after sea birds mourn death of gay penguin Sphen You don’t know how bad most things are nor precisely how they’re bad....

And so it continues! Here’s my interesting links for this week: Airlines Are Running Out Of Flight Numbers, And They Don’t Know What To Do About It New Euripides just dropped: Uncovered Euripides fragments are ‘kind of a big deal’ Should’ve just used that Brother printer everyone has: Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle From the “they quoted my clever wife” department: Space is becoming an ‘unsustainable environment in the long term,’ ESA says A public draft of the second edition of the brilliant Artificial Intelligence and Games book is available Computer Archeology: Exploring the Anatomy of an MS-DOS Virus (if you found this interesting you may also find this interesting) Last days of the lonely interstellar spacecraft (original here) See you next week!...

We’re so excited to announce that we’ll be presenting at the amazing GCAP conference in Melbourne, Australia, this year! We’ll be showing off what we’ve been working on, and talking about how you can use Yarn Spinner to make your own games. We’ll also be around for the whole conference, so if you’re there, come and say hi!

With the death of Twitter, and the fracturing of social media, I’m going to try an experiment! To that end, I’m going post some of the more interesting things I’ve read online each Thursday. I hope you find them interesting too. Or not, I don’t mind. I’m just going to keep doing it anyway. I’ll post links in no particular order, and they might not be recent. Just things I’ve found interesting in the previous week or so....

I’m absolutely thrilled to announce that, together with my wife Mars, I’ll be heading to the West and North West coasts of Tasmania to present a series of space-themed events and workshops for kids and adults alike. We’ve called these events the West Coast Space Show. This National Science Week project is supported by the Australian Government. This is an early step in our efforts to establish the West Coast Space Centre....

Phew, it’s been a week. Last week, I travelled all the way to Rochester, New York, to attend the NarraScope 2024 conference at The Strong National Museum of Play. I $ for three days of inspiration, connection, and storytelling innovation… and it was awesome! The conference kicked off with a captivating keynote from Nat Clayton, fresh from their work on Inkle’s “A Highland Song.” Their talk on spatial storytelling and level design perfectly set the tone for a conference exploring the intersection of narrative and interactivity....

You already know that Yarn Spinner is one of the most powerful, flexible and innovative tools for writing interactive stories. Yarn Spinner makes it easy to write stories that run in any engine, on any platform. However, there’s one platform that we’ve neglected: The printed page. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce Yarn Spinner for Books. Yarn Spinner for Books allows writers to write their stories in the Yarn syntax that they know and love, and produce beautifully-typeset PDFs with their interactive stories....

Yarn Spinner is now available for purchase! We’ve been working hard to make it easier for you to get started with Yarn Spinner, and we’re excited to announce that you can now buy Yarn Spinner on the Unity Asset Store, and the Itch Store. Yarn Spinner will always be free and open source, but we’re excited to offer a way for you to support the project and get some extra features and support in return....

We’re thrilled to announce that our next game, I Feel Fine, is coming out this year! I Feel Fine is developed by studio, Secret Lab, written by Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North, powered by Yarn Spinner, and funded by Screen Tasmania: Great news! You’ll be dead in three days. Here’s the situation. You’re a tourism information robot aboard a space station orbiting Jupiter. An asteroid will hit the station in three days, destroying it and everything on it....

Another new book! Our latest book, written together with my wife Mars, plus friends Tim and Jon, is out! It covers everything you need to know to do simulations using Unity ML-Agents, and how to use them to train machine learning models. You can buy it from all sorts of book shops, as well as read it on O’Reilly’s Online Learning platform. You can learn about all the other books I’ve written over the (many) years here....