Digital games are a powerful means for creating enticing, beautiful, educational, and often
highly addictive interactive experiences that impact the lives of billions of players worldwide …

Although game studies are widely viewed as an interdisciplinary field, it is unclear how
interdisciplinary they actually are. In response, this article reads scientometric data and …

The design process is often characterized by and realized through the iterative steps of
evaluation and refinement. When the process is based on a single creative domain such as …

How the tools and concepts for making games are connected to what games can and do
mean; with examples ranging from Papers, Please to Dys4ia. In How Pac-Man Eats, Noah …

We introduce a research framework for the design of interactive experiences in the domain
of emergent narrative, an application area of computational narrative in which stories …

Automated game design has remained a key challenge within the field of Game AI. In this
paper, we introduce a method for recombining existing games to create new games through …

Abstract We introduce Mechanic Miner, an evolutionary system for discovering simple two-
state game mechanics for puzzle platform games. We demonstrate how a reflection-driven …

Game designs often center on the game mechanics-rules governing the logical evolution of
the game. We seek to develop an intelligent system that generates computer games. As first …

Interactive narrative is a form of digital interactive experience in which users influence a
dramatic storyline through their actions. Artificial intelligence approaches to interactive …

While generative approaches to game design offer great promise, systems can only reliably
generate what they can “understand,” which is often represented in a limited, implicit form in …