Awards

AIIDE 2025 had a number of awards, congratulations to all winners!

Test of Time Awards

For the first time we gave out Test of Time awards to acknowledge impactful papers from an AIIDE 15-20 years ago based on citations and community votes. 

• "From Linear Story Generation to Branching Story Graphs" by Mark O. Riedl and R. Michael Young

• "Structuring Content in the Façade Interactive Drama Architecture" by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern

• "Cooperative Pathfinding" by David Silver

Best Case Study Award

The Best Case Study Award acknowledges the most interesting, novel, and polished case study demo presented at the conference.

• "Mic Check: Integrating Generative AI into Gameplay" by Samantha Trimboli, Kesha Bagadia, Candice Li, Hazel Yu, Emily Zhang and Isabella Chen

Best Poster Paper Award

The Best Poster Paper Award goes to the poster paper with bost the best evaluation according to reviews and the best poster presented at the conference.

• "Signals of Struggle: Detecting Player Difficulties using Machine Learning" by Nabeeha Ali and David Thue

Best Program Committee Member Award

The Best Program Committee Member Award acknowledges the program committee member who most represented excellence in reviewing and went above and beyond as a reviewer.

• Dr. Richard Zhao, University of Calgary

Best Student Paper Award

The Best Student Paper Award was chosen by the AIIDE-25 awards committee as the best paper authored by a student first author outside of the Best Paper Award.

• "Generic Guard AI in Stealth Game with Composite Potential Fields" by Kaijie Xu and Clark Verbrugge

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is the top award of any AIIDE, chosen by the awards committee. 

• "Speeding Up Narrative Planning Using Fog of War Pruning" by Lasantha Senanayake and Stephen G. Ware