Conference Proceedings

Full Technical Papers and Poster Research Papers

The Harmony Index: Evaluating, Predicting, and Visualizing Effectiveness in Multi-Agent Team Dynamics

Darryl Roman, Noah Ari, Johnathan Mell

SCORE: Skill-Conditioned Online Reinforcement Learning

Sara Karimi, Sahar Asadi, Amir H. Payberah

Procedurally Puzzling: On Algorithmic Difficulty and Player Experience in QD-Generated Logic Grid Puzzles

Fiona Shyne, Kaylah Facey, Seth Cooper

Generating Game Levels by Defining Player Experiences

Pedro M. Fernandes, Manuel Lopes, Rui Prada

Sturgeon-MKIV: Constraint-Based Level and Playthrough Generation with Graph Label Rewrite Rules

Seth Cooper, Mahsa Bazzaz

Using Natural Language to improve Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning in Games

Dave Mobley, Adrienne Corwin, Brent Harrison

Evaluating the Efficacy of LLMs to Emulate Realistic Human Personalities

Lawrence Klinkert, Steph Buongiorno, Corey Clark

Guided game level repair via Explainable AI

Mahsa Bazzaz, Seth Cooper

PANGeA: Procedural Artificial Narrative using Generative AI for Turn-Based, Role-Playing Video Games

Steph Buongiorno, Lawrence Klinkert, Zixin Zhuang, Tanishq Chawla, Corey Clark

Label-Free Subjective Player Experience Modelling via Let's Play Videos

Dave Goel, Athar Mahmoudi-Nejad, Matthew Guzdial

PCG meets LLM: A Survey of Procedural Content Generation in Games

Mahdi Farrokhi Maleki, Richard Zhao

Generalized Entropy and Solution Information for Measuring Puzzle Difficulty

Junwen Shen, Nathan R. Sturtevant

Fast, Declarative, Character Simulation Using Bottom-Up Logic Programming

Ian Horswill, Samuel Hill

Using EPCG for Designing a Hexagon Tangram Puzzle

Yazeed Mahmoud, Nathan Sturtevant

Enhancing Two-Player Performance Through Single-Player Knowledge Transfer: An Empirical Study on Atari 2600 Games

Kimiya Saadat, Richard Zhao

‘Journeys in the Dark’ - Towards Game Master AI in Complex Board Games

Toby Best, Simon Lucas, Raluca Gaina

NarrativeGenie: Generating Narrative Beats and Dynamic Storytelling with Large Language Models

Vikram Kumaran, Jonathan Rowe, James Lester

A Model for Automating the Abstraction of Planning Problems in a Narrative Context

Mira Fisher, Stephen Ware

Mechanic Maker: Accessible Game Development via Symbolic Learning Program Synthesis

Megan Sumner, Vardan Saini, Matthew Guzdial

No Player Left Behind: Evolving Dungeons and Dragons Combat to Optimize Difficulty and Player Contributions

Fiona Shyne, Seth Cooper

Controllable Game Level Generation: Assessing the Effect of Negative Examples in GAN Models

Mahsa Bazzaz, Seth Cooper

Evaluating the Effects of AI Directors for Quest Selection

Kristen Yu, Nathan Sturtevant, Matthew Guzdial

Toward Space-Time WaveFunctionCollapse for Level and Solution Generation

Kaylah Facey, Seth Cooper

Making New Connections: LLMs as Puzzle Generators for the New York Times Connections Word Game

Tim Merino, Sam Earle, Ryan Sudhakaran, Shyam Sudhakaran, Julian Togelius

Abstraction and Path Computation for Video Game Path Finding with Changing Maps

Teresa Saller, Ramon Lawrence, Vadim Bulitko

Artifact Papers

level2image: A Utility for Making 2D Tile-Based Level Images with Overlays

Seth Cooper

The FarmQuest Player Telemetry Dataset: Playthrough Data of a Cozy Farming Game

Kristen Yu, Nathan Sturtevant, Matthew Guzdial

Shepherd: An Incremental Story Sifting-Based Drama Manager

Sage Deo, Jonathan Chung, Joshua McCoy

Hexagram Tangram Puzzle Artifact

Yazeed Mahmoud, Nathan Sturtevant