Schedule

Monday, November 10

• Joint Workshop on Experimental AI in Games and Intelligent Narrative Technologies (link)

Wednesday, November 12 - Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science (CCIS), University of Alberta

8:30 AM - Opening Remarks

Seth Cooper and Matthew Guzdial, AIIDE'25 General Chair and Program Chair

9:00 AM - Keynote 

TBA

10:00 AM - Coffee Break

Coffee provided

10:30 AM - Paper Session 1 - Narrative

Session Chair: TBD

Paper
Detecting Duplicate States is Worth It in Narrative Planning with Belief
Fairoz Nower Khan, Nabuat Zaman Nahim, Stephen G. Ware and Judy Goldsmith

Paper
Speeding Up Narrative Planning Using Fog of War Pruning
Lasantha Senanayake and Stephen Ware

Paper
An Answer Set Encoding for Narrative Planning with Theory of Mind
Molly Siler and Stephen Ware

Doctoral Consortium
Towards a Model of Uncertainty in Narrative Planning
Gage Birchmeier

Doctoral Consortium
From Emergence to Planning: A Triangle Framework for Scalable, Controllable Interactive Storytelling
Lasantha Senanayake

Poster
Steering Narrative Agents through a Dynamic Cognitive Framework for Guided Emergent Storytelling
Chen Yang, Markus Gross and Rafael Wampfler

Poster
Structure, Agency, and Improvisation in Human-Led Digital Interactive Narrative Exercises
Mira Fisher, Molly Siler and Stephen Ware

Poster
Pareto-Based Narrative Planning: Making NPCs More Rational
Molly Siler, Mira Fisher and Stephen Ware

Poster
Speeding up Narrative Planning with Causal Width Search and Pruning
Gage Birchmeier and Stephen Ware

12:00 PM - Lunch

Lunch not provided, see Food and Dining

1:30 PM - Paper Session 2 - Character AI

Session Chair: TBD

Case Study
Xanadu: Generative Media Pipelines for Immersive Participatory Theater
Chiheb Boussema, Naisha Agarwal, Camilo Vargas, Malcolm Wilson, Anthony Doolan, Andrew Browning, Mira Winick and Jeff Burke

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

Doctoral Consortium
Game-Based Platforms for Studying Virtual Agent Believability
Christianah Titilope Oyewale

Doctoral Consortium
Setting the Stage: Using Knowledge Graphs for Environmental Context for Social Characters
Arunpreet Sandhu

Doctoral Consortium
Modeling the Internal Monologue: A Framework for Reconciling Authorial Intent with Agent Autonomy
Kyle Mitchell

Poster
A Method to the Machine: An Architecture for Argument-Driven, Dynamic Character Performance
Kyle Mitchell and Joshua McCoy

2:30 PM - Coffee Break

Coffee provided

3:00 PM - Paper Session 3 - Procedural Content Generation

Session Chair: TBD

Paper
Text-to-Level Diffusion Models With Various Text Encoders for Super Mario Bros
Jacob Schrum, Olivia Kilday, Emilio Salas, Bess Hagan and Reid Williams

Paper
Video Game Level Design as a Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Problem
Sam Earle, Zehua Jiang, Eugene Vinitsky and Julian Togelius

Paper
Time-based Chart Partitioning: Improving Local Coherency in Rhythm Game Chart Generation
Jonah Hanzen, Emily Halina, and Matthew Guzdial

Paper
Spacetime Level Generation and Editing with Constraints from Examples
Akshar Vandara, Kaylah Facey and Seth Cooper

Doctoral Consortium
Game Balancing via Procedural Content Generation and Simulations
Florian Rupp

Poster
A Database-Driven Framework for 3D Level Generation with LLMs
Kaijie Xu and Clark Verbrugge

Poster
From Unstable to Playable: Stabilizing Angry Birds Levels via Object Segmentation
Mahdi Farrokhimaleki, Parsa Rahmati and Richard Zhao

Poster
Growing a Puzzle Garden: Exploring Casual and Serious Features in a Mixed-Initative Logic Puzzle Authoring Tool
Fiona Shyne, Kaylah Facey and Seth Cooper

5:00pm - Welcome Event @ Amii Downtown

Dinner served

Friday, November 14 - Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science (CCIS), University of Alberta

9:00 AM - Keynote 

TBA

10:00 AM - Coffee Break

Coffee provided

10:30 AM - Paper Session 4 - Agent Control

Session Chair: TBD

Paper
Declarative Specification of Temporal Entities for Large-Scale Character Simulation
Samuel Hill and Ian Horswill

Paper
Generic Guard AI in Stealth Game with Composite Potential Fields
Kaijie Xu and Clark Verbrugge

Paper
Policies of Multiple Skill Levels for Better Strength Estimation in Games
Kyota Kuboki, Tatsuyoshi Ogawa, Chu-Hsuan Hsueh, Shi-Jim Yen and Kokolo Ikeda

Doctoral Consortium
From Explainability to Interpretability: A Case Study on Game AI using Program Synthesis
Manuel Eberhardinger

Poster
Playing Atari Space Invaders with Sparse Cosine Optimized Policy Evolution
Jim O'Connor, Jay B. Nash, Derin Gezgin and Gary B. Parker 

Poster
Evolutionary Optimization of Deep Learning Agents for Sparrow Mahjong
Jim O'Connor, Derin Gezgin and Gary B. Parker

Poster
Minding Motivation: The Effect of Intrinsic Motivation on Agent Behaviors
Leonardo Villalobos-Arias, Grant C. Forbes, Jianxun Wang, David L. Roberts and Arnav Jhala

12:00 PM - Lunch

Lunch not provided, see Food and Dining

1:30 PM - Paper Session 8 - Visuals and Audio

Paper
Expressive Range Characterization of Open Text-to-Audio Models
Jonathan Morse, Azadeh Naderi, Swen Gaudl, Mark Cartwright, Amy K. Hoover and Mark J. Nelson

Paper
A Hybrid Co-Finetuning Approach for Visual Bug Detection in Video Games
Faliu Yi, Sherif Abdelfattah, Wei Huang and Adrian Brown

Paper
GameTileNet: A Semantic Dataset for Low-Resolution Game Art in Procedural Content Generation
Yi-Chun Chen and Arnav Jhala

Doctoral Consortium
Process-centered design in Co-creative Support Tools for 2D Art
Dagmar Lofts

2:30 PM - Coffee Break

Coffee provided

3:00 PM - Starcraft Competition Results

David Churchill, Stacraft Competition Chair

3:30 PM - Workshop Presentation

Richard Zhao, Workshop Chair

4:30 PM - Closing Remarks and Awards

Seth Cooper and Matthew Guzdial, General Chair and Program Chair