Accepted Papers

Full Papers

Neural Synthesis of Sound Effects Using Flow-Based Deep Generative Models

Sergi Andreu and Monica Villanueva Aylagas

Game System Models: Toward Semantic Foundations for Technical Game Analysis, Generation, and Design

Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Jose Zagal and Michael S. Debus

Aesthetic Bot: Interactively Evolving Game Maps on Twitter

M Charity and Julian Togelius

Puck: A Slow and Personal Automated Game Designer

Michael Cook

Sturgeon: Tile-Based Procedural Level Generation via Learned and Designed Constraints

Seth Cooper

Enhancing multimodal goal recognition in open-world games with natural language player reflections

Anisha Gupta, Dan Carpenter, Wookhee Min, Jonathan Rowe, Roger Azevedo and James Lester

Step: A Highly Expressive Text Generation Language

Ian Horswill

Playing with the Strings: Designing Puppitor as an Acting Interface for Digital Games

Nic Junius, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Elin Carstensdottir

Creative Wand: A system to study effects of Communications in co-creative settings

Zhiyu Lin, Rohan Agarwal and Mark Riedl

EM-Glue: A Platform for Decoupling Experience Managers and Environments

Giulio Mori, David Thue and Stephan Schiffel

tile2tile: Learning Game Filters for Platformer Style Transfer

Anurag Sarkar and Seth Cooper

Minimizing Coordination in Multi-Agent Path Finding with Dynamic Execution

Aidan Wagner, Rishi Veerapaneni and Maxim Likhachev

Adventures of AI Directors Early in the Development of Nightingale

Kristen K. Yu, Matthew Guzdial, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Morgan Cselinacz, Chris Corfe, Izzy Hubert Lyall and Chris Smith

Poster Papers

Anthology: A Social Simulation Framework

Sasha Azad, Jennifer Wellnitz, Luis Garcia and Chris Martens

Tiered State Expansion in Optimization Crosswords

Adi Botea and Vadim Bulitko

On the Challenges of Generating Pixel Art Character Sprites using GANs

Flávio Coutinho and Luiz Chaimowicz

Salience Vectors for Measuring Distance between Stories

Rachelyn Farrell, Mira Fisher and Stephen G. Ware

Controlling Perceived Emotion in Symbolic Music Generation with Monte Carlo Tree Search

Lucas N. Ferreira, Lili Mou, Jim Whitehead and Levi Lelis

Robust Player Plan Recognition in Digital Games with Multi-Task Multi-Label Learning

Alex Goslen, Dan Carpenter, Jon Rowe, Roger Azevedo and James Lester

Transformer-based Value Function Decomposition for Cooperative Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning in StarCraft

Muhammad Junaid Khan, Syed Hammad Ahmed and Gita Sukthankar

Loose Ends: A Mixed-Initiative Creative Interface for Playful Storytelling

Max Kreminski, Melanie Dickinson, Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Michael Mateas

RPGPref: A Planning Heuristic that Uses Playstyle Preferences to Model Player Action and Choice

Eric W. Lang and R. Michael Young

Towards AI as a Creative Colleague in Game Level Design

Tinea Larsson, Jose Font and Alberto Alvarez

Automated Play-Testing Through RL Based Human-Like Play-Styles Generation

Pierre Le Pelletier de Woillemont, Rémi Labory and Vincent Corruble

Icepool: Efficient Computation of Dice Pool Probabilities

Albert Liu

A Review of Uncertainty for Deep Reinforcement Learning

Owen Lockwood and Mei Si

Effects of Player-Level Matchmaking Methods in a Live Citizen Science Game

Alex Stoneman, Josh Aaron Miller and Seth Cooper

World Models with an Entity-Based Representation

Nazanin Yousefzadeh Khameneh and Matthew Guzdial

HeadSpace: Incorporating Action Failure and Character Beliefs into Narrative Planning

Rushit Sanghrajka, R. Michael Young and Brandon Thorne

Evaluating Reader Comprehension of Plan-Based Stories Containing Failed Actions

Rushit Sanghrajka and R. Michael Young

Searching for Balanced 2D Brawler Games: Successes and Failures of Automated Evaluation

Samuel Shields, Ross Mawhorter, Edward Melcer and Michael Mateas

Using Multi-Armed Bandits to Dynamically Update Player Models in an Experience Managed Environment

Anton Vinogradov and Brent Harrison

Practitioner Paper

The Nonsense Laboratory

Allison Parrish, Jenny Goldstick and Tim Szetela

Playable Experiences/Demos

A Hybrid Approach to Co-Creative Story Authoring Using Grammars and Language Models

Adam Riddle

A Demonstration of Possibilistic Hierarchical Task Networks For Believable Agent Behavior

Braeden Warnick

Never a Dull Moment: Believable Dynamic Character Beat Generation Between Game World Events

Kyle Mitchell, Joshua McCoy and Camden Pettijohn

Explainable CLIP-Guided 3D-Scene Generation in an AI Holodeck

Atefeh Mahdavi Goloujeh, Jason Smith and Brian Magerko

FarmQuest: A Demonstration of an AI Director Video Game Test Bed

Kristen K. Yu, Matthew Guzdial and Nathan R. Sturtevant