Program

Program at a Glance

• October 8: Workshops (all day)

• October 9: Keynote, one full paper session, Doctoral Consortium, Workshop Reports

• October 10: Keynote, two full paper sessions, case studies

• October 11: Conference activity, two full paper sessions, poster presentations and reception

• October 12: Keynote, one full paper session, closing remarks (end by 1pm)

Schedule

Keynotes

Monday: Jasmine Roberts

Tuesday: Gillian Smith

Thursday: Luke Dicken

Papers

Paper session 1: Full Papers − Session Chair: Matthew Guzdial

• The $5 Model: Generating Game Maps and Sprites from Sentence Embeddings - Tim Merino, Roman Negri, M Charity, Julian Togelius and Dipika Rajesh

• Utilizing Generative Adversarial Networks for Stable Structure Generation in Angry Birds - Matthew Stephenson and Frederic Abraham

• Beyond the Meta: Leveraging Game Design Parameters for Patch-Agnostic Esport Analitics - Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat, Florian Block, James Walker and Anders Drachen

Paper session 2: Doctoral Consortium − Session Chair: Seth Cooper

• Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment via Procedural Level Generation Guided by a Markov Decision Process for Platformers and Roguelikes - Colan Biemer

• Understanding Human-AI Teaming Dynamics through Gaming Environments - Qiao Zhang

• Career Advice for New Faculty - Panel

Paper session 3: Full Papers − Session Chair: Rachelyn Farrell

• Language Model-Based Player Goal Recognition in Open World Digital Games - Yeo Jin Kim, Alex Goslen, Jonathan Rowe, Bradford Mott and James Lester

• Risk Management: Anticipating and Reacting in StarCraft - Adam Amos-Binks and Bryan Weber

• Player Identification and Next-Move Prediction for Collectible Card Games with Imperfect Information - Logan Fields and John Licato

Paper session 4: Interactives − Session Chair: Richard Zhao

• Level Building Sidekick: An AI-Assisted Level Editor Package for Unity - Camila Aliaga, Cristian Vidal, Gabriel K. Sepulveda, Nicolas Romero, Fernanda González and Nicolas A. Barriga

• Generally Genius: A Generals.io agent development and data collection framework - Aaditya Bhatia, Austin Davis, Soumik Ghosh and Gita Sukthankar

• Praxish: A Rational Reconstruction of a Logic-Based DSL for Modeling Social Practices - James Dameris, Rosaura Hernandez Roman and Max Kreminski

• Entropy as a Measure of Puzzle Difficulty - Eugene Youchen Chen, Nathan Sturtevant and Adam White

Paper session 5: Case Studies − Session Chair: Max Kreminski

• Are you Talking to Me? A Case Study in Emotional Human-Machine Interaction - Manuel Flurin Hendry, Norbert Kottmann, Martin Fröhlich, Florian Bruggisser, Marco Quandt, Stella Speziali, Valentin Huber and Chris Salter

• Language as Reality: A Co-Creative Storytelling Game Experience in 1001 Nights using Generative AI - Yuqian Sun, Zhouyi Li, Ke Fang, Cheng Hee Lee and Ali Asadipour

Paper session 6: Full Papers − Session Chair: Justus Robertson

• Automatically Defining Game Action Spaces for Exploration Using Program Analysis - Sasha Volokh and William G.J. Halfond

• Physics-Based Task Generation Through Causal Sequence of Physical Interactions - Chathura Gamage, Vimukthini Pinto, Matthew Stephenson and Jochen Renz

• Hierarchical Wavefunction Collapse - Michael Beukman, Branden Ingram, Ireton Liu and Benjamin Rosman

Paper session 7: Full Papers − Session Chair: Lara Martin

• There and Back Again: Extracting Formal Domains for Controllable Neurosymbolic Story Authoring - Jack Kelly, Alex Calderwood, Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Michael Mateas

• SceneCraft: Automating Interactive Narrative Scene Generation in Digital Games with Large Language Models - Vikram Kumaran, Jonathan Rowe, Bradford Mott and James Lester

• Evolving Interactive Narrative Worlds - Justus Robertson, John Heiden and Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera

Paper session 8: Full Papers − Session Chair: Markus Eger

• Enhancing Character Depth through Personality Exceptions for Narrative Planners - Elinor Rubin-McGregor, Cory Siler and Brent Harrison

• MultiStyle: Characterizing Multiplayer Cooperative Gameplay by Incorporating Distinct Player Playstyles in a Multi-Agent Planner - Eric W. Lang and R. Michael Young

• Causal Necessity as a Narrative Planning Step Cost Function - Stephen Ware, Lasantha Senanayake and Rachelyn Farrell

Posters

• Cautious Curiosity: A Novel Approach to a Human-Like Gameplay Agent - Chujin Zhou, Tiago Machado and Casper Harteveld

• Story Shaping: Teaching Agents Human-like Behavior with Stories - Xiangyu Peng, Christopher Cui, Wei Zhou, Renee Jia and Mark Riedl

• Persona Agents from Playtraces and Emotion - Pedro M. Fernandes, Manuel Lopes and Rui Prada

• DendryScope: Narrative Designer Support via Symbolic Analysis - Jasmine Otto, Autumn Chen and Adam M. Smith

• Learning of Generalizable and Interpretable Knowledge in Grid-based Reinforcement Learning Environments - Manuel Eberhardinger, Johannes Maucher and Setareh Maghsudi

• Expressive Response Curves: Testing Expressive Game Feel with A* - Nic Junius and Elin Carstensdottir

• Distribution Fairness in Multiplayer AI using Shapley Constraints - Robert Gray, Jichen Zhu and Santiago Ontañón

• CALYPSO: LLMs as Dungeon Master's Assistants - Andrew Zhu, Lara Martin, Andrew Head and Chris Callison-Burch

• Tree-based Reconstructive Partitioning: A Novel Low-Data Level Generation Approach - Emily Halina and Matthew Guzdial

• Creating Diverse Play-style-centric Agents through Behavioural Cloning - Branden Corwin Ingram, Clint Van Alten, Richard Klein and Benjamin Rosman

• Investigating the Influence of Behaviors and Dialogs on Player Enjoyment in Stealth Games - Wael Al Enezi and Clark Verbrugge

• Synthesizing Priority Planning Formulae for Multi-Agent Pathfinding - Shuwei Wang, Vadim Bulitko, Taoan Huang, Sven Koenig and Roni Stern

• Evaluating Player Experience in Stealth Games: Dynamic Guard Patrol Behavior Study - Wael Al Enezi and Clark Verbrugge

• Navigation in adversarial environments guided by PRA* and a local RL planner - Debraj Ray and Nathan Sturtevant

• Modeling Morality-Based Argumentation for Believable Game Characters: A Design Postmortem - Rehaf Aljammaz, Michael Mateas and Noah Wardrip-Fruin

• Probabilistic Logic Programming Semantics For Procedural Content Generation - Abdelrahman Madkour, Chris Martens, Steven Holtzen, Casper Harteveld and Stacy Marsella

• Mechanic Maker 2.0: Reinforcement Learning for Evaluating Generated Rules - Johor Jara Gonzalez, Seth Cooper and Matthew Guzdial

• Playing Various Strategies in Dominion with Deep Reinforcement Learning - Jasper Gerigk and Steve Engels

• Reconstructing Existing Levels through Level Inpainting - Johor Jara Gonzalez and Matthew Guzdial

• A Computational Tool for Recoloring Based on User Emotions - Jungah Son, Marko Peljhan, George Legrady and Misha Sra

• FlexComb: A Facial Landmark-based Model for Expression Combination Generation - Bogdan Pikula and Steve Engels

• Herd’s Eye View: Improving Game AI Agent Learning with Collaborative Perception - Dave Churchill

• Observer Rules for Box-Split Grammars - Nicholas Baron and Markus Eger