Posts about video games

Stock market games: Neopets


Tags: video games, finance

This post is part of my Stock Market Video Games series! In these posts, I'll do a deepdive in the stock markets that we can find in video games! I want to find out how these fictional stock markets behave, and how they differ from the real world. Are they random or realistic simulations? And how can we use that knowledge to get excess returns? After all, we should only invest in what we understand.

As far as stock market video games go, the first virtual stock market I encountered was in online game environment Neopets, around the early 2000s.

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Talk transcript: Fine-tuning GPT-2 on World of Warcraft quests


Tags: natural language generation, video games, projects, research

This is a textual version of the talk I gave at Foundations of Digital Games 2021, for the research paper titled Fine-tuning GPT-2 on annotated RPG quests for NPC dialogue generation. The talk was transcribed using Whisper.cpp and co-edited with the open beta of ChatGPT to improve the flow of the text.

Good morning everyone. My name is Judith van Stegeren and I'm here to present a fun project that I worked on together with my co-author Jakub.

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Talk transcript: Fantastic strings and where to find them


Tags: video games, projects, research

This is a textual version of the talk I gave at the Intelligent Narrative Technologies workshop at AIIDE 2020, for the research paper titled Fantastic Strings and Where to Find Them. The talk was transcribed using Whisper.cpp and co-edited with the open beta of ChatGPT to improve the flow of the text.

Hi everyone, thank you for tuning in to my talk. My name is Judith van Stegeren and I collected three new datasets with video game text.

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