This volume covers both the art and the technology of game AI. It includes core algorithms
that you'll need to succeed, such as behavior trees, utility theory, spatial representation, path …

This book surveys current and future approaches to generating video game content with
machine learning or Procedural Content Generation via Machine Learning (PCGML) …

Storytelling plays an important role in human life, from everyday communication to
entertainment. Interactive storytelling (IS) offers its audience an opportunity to actively …

In interactive narratives, experience management is used to control the world and the
nonplayer characters (NPCs) a player interacts with, encouraging particular types of stories …

This work demonstrates the potentials of procedural content generation (PCG) for games,
focusing on the generation of specific graphic props (reefs) in an explorer game. We briefly …

We present a new way to represent and understand experience managers—AI agents that
tune the parameters of a running game to pursue a designer's goal. Existing representations …

Recent years have seen growing interest in data-driven approaches to personalized
interactive narrative generation and drama management. Reinforcement learning (RL) …

Many games feature a progression of levels that doesn't adapt to the player. This can be
problematic because some players may get stuck if the progression is too difficult, while …

Some computer game genres require meaningful stories and complex worlds in order to
successfully engage players. In this paper we look at a procedural approach to story-based …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques have been widely used in video games to control non-
playable characters. More recently, AI has been applied to automated story generation and …