Quality diversity (QD) algorithms such as MAP-Elites have emerged as a powerful
alternative to traditional single-objective optimization methods. They were initially applied to …

Ticket to Ride is a popular contemporary board game for two to four players, featuring a
number of expansions with additional maps and tweaks to the core game mechanics. In this …

This paper introduces DATA Agent, a system which creates murder mystery adventures from
open data. In the game, the player takes on the role of a detective tasked with finding the …

This paper explores the question of whether it's possible to discover a well-defined property
of game systems that corresponds to what game designers and players mean by the term …

Since the inception of artificial intelligence, games have benchmarked algorithmic
advances. Recent success in classic board games such as Chess and Go have left space …

We propose the problem of tutorial generation for games, ie to generate tutorials which can
teach players to play games, as an AI problem. This problem can be approached in several …

The automatic generation of game tutorials is a challenging AI problem. While it is possible
to generate annotations and instructions that explain to the player how the game is played …

The process of play testing a game is subjective, expensive and incomplete. In this paper,
we present a play-testing approach that explores the game space with automated agents …

Playing casual games is a wildly popular activity on smartphones. However, designing
casual games is done by a smaller group of people, usually on desktop computers, using …

This paper presents a demonstration of how AI can be useful in the game design and
development process of a modern board game. By using an artificial intelligence algorithm …