Believable proxies of human behavior can empower interactive applications ranging from
immersive environments to rehearsal spaces for interpersonal communication to prototyping …

Georgios N. Yannakakis Julian Togelius Page 1 Artificial Intelligence and Games Georgios N.
Yannakakis Julian Togelius Page 2 Artificial Intelligence and Games Page 3 Georgios N …

Quests represent an integral part of role-playing games (RPGs). While evocative, narrative-
rich quests are still mostly hand-authored, player demands toward more and richer game …

This paper attempts to give a high-level overview of the field of artificial and computational
intelligence (AI/CI) in games, with particular reference to how the different core research …

More than a decade after the early research efforts on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in
computer games and the establishment of a new AI domain the term``game AI''needs to be …

Bolstered by a growing interest in simulating believable non-player characters (NPCs), work
on NPC models has spanned topics such as planning, procedural storytelling, decision …

Computational creativity has traditionally relied on well-controlled, single-faceted and
established domains such as visual art, narrative and audio. On the other hand, research on …

Generative AI (GenAI), encompassing image generation and large language models
(LLMs), has opened new avenues for gameplay experiences. This paper introduces" 1001 …

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 …

New player experiences require new game designs–and some designs only become
possible with new technology. Emergent narratives are part of existing story games but the …