Background. Definitions of gamification tend to vary by person, both in industry and within
academia. One particularly popular lay interpretation, introduced and popularized by Ian …

Procedural content generation in video games has a long history. Existing procedural
content generation methods, such as search-based, solver-based, rule-based and grammar …

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 …

Dynamic difficulty adjustment (DDA) is a method of automatically modifying a game's
features, behaviors, and scenarios in real‐time, depending on the player's skill, so that the …

Hundreds of millions of people play computer games every day. For them, game content—
from 3D objects to abstract puzzles—plays a major entertainment role. Manual labor has so …

Procedural content generation (PCG) is an increasingly important area of technology within
modern human-computer interaction (HCI) design. Personalization of user experience via …

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 …

In computer games and simulations, content is often rather static and rigid. As a result, its
prescripted nature can lead to predictable and impersonal gameplay, while alienating …

This paper surveys research on applying neuroevolution (NE) to games. In neuroevolution,
artificial neural networks are trained through evolutionary algorithms, taking inspiration from …

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 …