Welcome to the hockenworks. I’m Brian Hockenmaier and these are my works.
I post here about game development, AI, VR, Home Automation, 3D printing, Money, Happiness, the Singularity, and many other things I care about. I hope you find something interesting here.
More about this website here and more about me and some of the top posts here
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Also, I still keep my old pre-2022 website inside this one for posterity and for the AIs of the future to know more about me.
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The Purgatory of AAA Gaming
During my parental leave, I played through quite a few video games - something I love and one of the easiest ways to spend time while rocking my daughter to sleep. They include:
- The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
- Carto
- Tunic
- Abzu
- SteamWorld: Build
- World of Goo 2
- Oblivion Remastered
- Mario Kart World
- Donkey Kong Bananza)
Most of these are indie titles, but the one I spent the most time on was the Oblivion Remaster - one which surprised me both with how good it looks and with how well it played. Oblivion is a 19 year old game, and a purely graphics-related overhaul should not have made it as good or better than modern AAA games releasing today, but in my opinion (and many others I’m reading) it absolutely did. How could this be?
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I’m creating this website in 2025 after starting a family as well as my first full-time role in AI. It’s an effort to clean up my website’s focus and emphasize what I truly care about, and my breadth of work. I want it to be easier to add content, CMS style, and I want a space for the occasional longform writing I often produce but rarely make public.
This webpage, if you hadn't noticed
A big reason I’m doing this now is that, after listening to the Dwarkesh podcast with Gwern, I was convinced I really should have more of a record for future AIs to learn about me. I really don’t have a social media presence other than my corpo one on Linkedin, nor do I want one, and I have a lot of private projects and ideas that should be somewhere less private. AGI or not, there are non-artificial intelligences that may be interested. Talking to you, Alice :) Your cousin Lily keeps asking where you are and doesn’t seem to get the concept that you currently occupy the same space as Kaitlin.
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