Accepted Papers, Demos & Experiences

Oral Presentation

An Empirical Evaluation of Evaluation Metrics of Procedurally Generated Mario Levels, Julian Mariño, Willian Reis and Levi Lelis

Automated Gameplay Generation from Declarative World Representations, Justus Robertson and R Michael Young

Ceptre: A Language for Modeling Generative Interactive Systems, Chris Martens

Evaluating the Pairwise Event Salience Hypothesis in Indexter, Christopher Kives, Stephen Ware and Lewis Baker

Exploring Player Trace Segmentation for Dynamic Play Style Prediction, Josep Valls-Vargas, Santiago Ontañón and Jichen Zhu

Hierarchical Portfolio Search: Prismata's robust AI architecture for games with large search spaces, David Churchill and Michael Buro

Keeping the Player on an Emotional Trajectory in Interactive Storytelling, Sergio Poo Hernandez, Vadim Bulitko and Marcia Spetch

Managing Player Expectations with Nonce, Peter A Mawhorter, Michael Mateas and Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Optimizing Players' Expected Enjoyment in Interactive Stories, Hong Yu and Mark Riedl

Path planning with Inventory-driven Jump-Point-Search, Davide Aversa, Sebastian Sardina and Stavros Vassos

Predicting Purchase Decisions in Free To Play Mobile Games, Rafet Sifa, Fabian Hadiji, Julian Runge, Anders Drachen, Kristian Kersting and Christian Bauckhage

Puppet Search: Enhancing Scripted Behavior by Look-Ahead Search with Applications to Real-Time Strategy Games, Nicolas A Barriga, Marius Stanescu and Michael Buro

Targeting Horror: An Initial Approach for Generating Tense Levels and Soundscapes, Phil Lopes, Antonios Liapis and Georgios N Yannakakis

Using Lanchester attrition laws for combat prediction in StarCraft, Marius Stanescu, Nicolas A Barriga and Michael Buro

Width-based Planning for General Video-Game Playing, Tomas Geffner and Hector Geffner

Poster Presentation

A Data-driven Approach for Computationally Modeling Avatar Customization Behavioral Patterns of Players, Chong-U Lim and D Fox Harrell

A Hierarchical MdMC Approach to 2D Video Game Map Generation, Sam Snodgrass and Santiago Ontañón

A Lightweight Algorithm for Procedural Generation of Emotionally Affected Behavior and Appearance, Yathirajan Brammadesam Manavalan, Vadim Bulitko and Marcia Spetch

Automated Decomposition of Game Maps, Kári Halldórsson and Yngvi Björnsson

Automatic Learning of Combat Models for RTS Games, Alberto Uriarte and Santiago Ontañón

Bayesian Clustering of Player Styles for Multiplayer Games, Aline Normoyle and Shane Jensen

Capturing the Essence: Towards the Automated Generation of Transparent Behavior Models, Patrick Schwab and Helmut Hlavacs

Large-Scale Cross-Game Player Behavior Analysis on Steam, Rafet Sifa, Anders Drachen and Christian Bauckhage

Maximizing Flow as a Metacontrol in Angband, Thorey Mariusdottir, Vadim Bulitko and Matthew Brown

Multi-Level Evolution of Shooter Levels, William Cachia, Antonios Liapis and Georgios N Yannakakis

Path Planning on Grids: Choose Your Vertices Wisely, James Bailey, Tansel Uras, Sven Koenig and Craig Tovey

Playspecs: Regular Expressions for Game Play Traces, Joseph Osborn, Benjamin Samuel, Michael Mateas and Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Quantifying and Predicting Collaboration in Shared Virtual Worlds, Stephan Müller, Seth Frey, Mubbasir Kapadia, Severin Klingler, Richard Mann, Barbara Solenthaler, Robert W. Sumner and Markus Gross.

Refining the Paradigm of Sketching in AI-based Level Design, Antonios Liapis and Georgios N Yannakakis

Towards Generic Models of Player Experience, Noor Shaker, Mohammad Shaker and Mohamed Abou-Zleikha

Tuning Belief Revision for Coordination with Inconsistent Teammates, Trevor Sarratt and Arnav Jhala

Demo Presentation

MKULTRA (demo), Ian Horswill

Automatic Real-Time Music Generation for Games, Steve Engels, Tiffany Tong, and Fabian Chan

Playable Experiences

Chairs: Michael Cook (AIR Lab, Falmouth University) and Squirrel Eiserloh (SMU Guildhall)

Base Case, Justus Robertson and R. Michael Young (North Carolina State University)

iGiselle, Sergio Poo Hernandez and Vadim Bulitko (University of Alberta)

Prismata, David Churchill (Lunarch Studios / University of Alberta)

Sarah & Sally, Martin Cerny (Charles University in Prague)

Sure Footing, Tommy Thompson, James Tatum and Neall Dewsbury (Table Flip Games / University of Derby)