VERTICAL PROGRESS

Hi there. I am Martin Pichlmair, and I work with the playful side of technology. Currently I'm most interested in Creative AI and setting up a startup in the AI writing space called Write with LAIKA.

Interactive toys I've created are sometimes games, often take the shape of tools, and other times turn out to be weird experiments.

I work as an Associate Professor and Co-Head of the Games Programme at IT University Copenhagen. I am also one out of five co-founders of award winning boutique game studio Broken Rules and a member of the Copenhagen Game Collective.

I love dangerously hot food.

Recent Talks, Projects & Papers

Creative Challenges in Artificial Intelligence. – On our journey to new forms of creative expression, we will encounter ethical challenges and cross some legal minefields, to arrive at new perspectives on creativity.
– Presented at Ars Electronica, Expanded Animation Symposium.

Game Feel. A Survey. – Game feel design is the intentional design of the affective impact of moment-to-moment interaction.
– Published in Transactions on Games.

Video Game Description Language Environment for Unity Machine Learning Agents., written with Mads Johansen and Sebastian Risi.
— Presented at: IEEE CoG, London, UK, August 20-23, 2019