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Control is really a game that is stronger than the sum of its individual parts. With a strong narrative holding aloft an ambitious and obscure piece of third-person action.
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Control is really a game that is stronger than the sum of its individual parts. With a strong narrative holding aloft an ambitious and obscure piece of third-person action.
--
Smoke and Mirrors is the second channel for 'AI and Games': a series on research and applications of Artificial Intelligence in video games. Expect game reviews, live stream archives, shorts and more!
AI and Games is funded thanks to our supporters on Patreon, plus YouTube members and Paypal donations. You can watch episodes of Smoke and Mirrors *early* by joining the Patreon or YouTube memberships.
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![The Future of AI for Games [ a 2023 @GameAISchool Panel ] | Branching Factor Podcast #009
A recording from Tommys visit to the AI and Games Summer School (@GameAISchool), which ran in June 2023 at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. Our panel, explores aspects of AI for games and what the future of it might look like. With Tommy as moderator, this panel ran on day 3 of the event with the following panellists:
- Katja Hofmann (Microsoft Research)
- Duygu Cakmak (Creative Assembly)
- Oskar Stalberg (independent developer, creator of Townscaper)
- Wesley Kerr (Riot Games)
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![Alien is back in the Conversation: Perfect Organism: The Assembly Cut | AI and Games Podcast #04
We’re joined on the AI and Games podcast by Andy Kelly, a former games journalist and now PR manager at Devolver Digital, who is largely famous for being that guy who bangs on about Alien: Isolation on social media more than we do! You might remember Andy as a voice in our Alien: Isolation retrospective on the AI and Games YouTube channel in 2025.
Andy sits down with Tommy to talk about ‘Perfect Organism: The Assembly Cut’, a new version of his unofficial companion book about Creative Assembly’s horror game. There’s a lot of interesting stuff to talk about in this episode, including:
- How Andy got screwed out of royalties from Unbound: the publisher of the original version of ‘Perfect Organism’
- How the conversation around Alien has changed since the original book launched in 2024.
- What to expect in the updated edition published by Lost in Cult.
- How the 10 year anniversary of the game provided more info for the book.
- Andy and Tommy muse about the recently released Alien: Isolation 2 trailer.
You can pre-order your copy of Perfect Organism: The Assembly Cut at
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Timestamps
[00:00] Preshow Stinger
[00:45] Intro
[01:10] Welcome!
[10:57] Andys Alien Love Affair
[15:12] The Perfect Organism
[17:05] Why Update the Book?
[23:21] Alien is back in the conversation.
[25:32] Building an updated edition.
[29:30] Sponsored by AWS
[30:35] Revision or Expansion?
[38:10] Still Nothing Really Like It
[43:16] Alien: Isolation 2
[57:26] Final Book Plug
[59:03] Closing
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Perfect Organism: The Assembly Cut
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Alien: Isolation - The AI and Games Retrospective
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