The following are resources that are relevant to my development as a creative writer in the modern age. They include works on game development, books on the social history (read: consequences) of online technologies, funny and topical videos, and tools that are of use to any writer, amateur or professional.

       Essays & Articles are critical and skeptical pieces focus on the limitations and negative consequences of the LLM or “AI revolution”; the first link, which covers a 1994 online-published essay on the commodification of human creativity expression, predates the data-trawling of AI-training by decades, but is relevant to anyone seeking a closer look at the historical foundations of our current predicament.

       I’ve also included Game Recommendations for the sorts of people who like imaginative roleplay, and hilarious Let’s Plays, because. Why not. We’re here to have fun, right?

       For chatbot-specific links, please see Chatbots.

     The following works cover game development, fictional world building, writing, the rapid ascent of deep-learning generative AI tools, and the social ramifications of new technologies in general. Bolded works under the Books section I highly recommend.

• The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr (2010)
• OVERconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet, by William Davidow (2012)
• Virtual Cities: An Atlas & Exploration of Video Game Cities, by Konstantinos Dimopoulos (2020)
• The Weapons of Progress: From Video Game Revolution to Control, by Joel Goodwin (ongoing)

• “17 years on since Pandora’s Vox”, by Jonathan Koren (2011)
• “The Great Fiction of AI: The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction” by Josh Dzieza (2022)
• “Confessions of a Viral AI Writer” by Vauhini Vara (2023)
• “Why would writers use AI?” by Nicole Brinkley (2024)
• “A True Story of the Dead Internet” by Dannarchy (2025)
• “Artificial Intimacy: The Next Giant Social Experiment on Young Minds”, by Kristina Lerman and David Chu (2025)
• “AI Is a Mass Delusion Event”, by Charlie Warzel (2025)

• Closed Mode vs the Open Mode of Creativity, by John Cleese (1991)
• All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
• “Bartle’s Taxonomy - What Type of Player Are You?” by Extra Credits (2015)
• GDC Postmortem of Deus Ex, by Warren Spector (2017)
• “The A.I. Episode (Chat GPT Takes Over The World)” by JonTron (2023)
• “Choice Architecture: Manipulation for Fun and Profit!” by Extra Credits (2024)

     These are entertaining Let’s Plays of games with stories that branch out based on user choices. Some of the games played are highly generative, such as Dwarf Fortress; others are fully scripted.

• “Boatmurdered” of Dwarf Fortress, by various
• This War of Mine by Vegeta, Renegade for Life
• “The Sims 1, American™ Edition…” by ambiguousamphibian
• Raise a Peter by videogamedunkey

• Hatoful Boyfriend by Angie Gallant