Game balancing is an important part of the (computer) game design process, in which
designers adapt a game prototype so that the resulting gameplay is as entertaining as …

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 …

Games with a purpose (gwaps) are expensive and challenging to create, yet are touted as a
cure-all for getting people to do uninteresting and repetitive tasks in exchange for fun and …

In the last decade, generative models have seen widespread use for their ability to generate
diverse artefacts in an increasingly simple way. Historically, the use of evolutionary …

This paper presents a framework for generating adventure games from open data. Focusing
on the murder mystery type of adventure games, the generator is able to transform open …

This paper describes a system for generating murder mysteries for adventure games, using
associations between real-world people mined from Wikipedia articles. A game is seeded …

This work investigates how to incorporate real-world data into game content so that the
content is playable and enjoyable while not misrepresenting the data. We propose a method …

Educators often seek ways to introduce gaming in the classroom in order to break the usual
teaching routine, expand the usual course curriculum with additional knowledge, but mostly …

Probabilistic model checking can overcome much of the complexity inherent in balancing
games. Game balancing is the careful maintenance of relationships between the ways in …

This paper investigates how to generate simple adventure games using open data. We
present a system that creates a plot for the player to follow based on associations between …