Hello, my name is Mathieu Poliquin and I am a programmer in the videogames industry

Projects

I created stable-retro a fork of OpenAI’s gym-retro. stable-retro is now part of Farama Foundation

• stable-retro on GitHub

Citations

stable-retro has been cited or mentioned in the following research papers:

2026:

• ReactiveGWM: Steering NPC in Reactive Game World Models
• StatePlay: State-Aware Game World Models for Mechanics-Consistent Generation
• FootsiesGym: A Fighting Game Benchmark for TwoPlayer Zero-Sum Imperfect-Information Games

2025:

• Exploration-Driven Generative Interactive Environments
• Gymnasium: A Standardized Interface for Reinforcement Learning Environments
• IPR-1: Interactive Physical Reasoner
• SAFE-SMART: Safety Analysis and Formal Evaluation using STL Metrics for Autonomous RoboTs
• General Modular Harness for LLM Agents in Multi-Turn Gaming Environments
• Dissecting Discrete Soft Actor-Critic: Limitations and Principled Alternatives

Links

• Google Scholar
• GitHub
• Linkedin
• Twitter
• MTGO ID: SnapcasterRecall
• email: mathieu.poliquin@gmail.com

You can find me on my youtube channel and blog where I mostly talk about ML:

• Youtube Channel
• videogames.ai