General video game playing aims at designing an agent that is capable of playing multiple
video games with no human intervention. In 2014, the General Video Game Artificial …

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 …

This survey explores procedural content generation via machine learning (PCGML), defined
as the generation of game content using machine learning models trained on existing …

Quality diversity (QD) algorithms such as MAP-Elites have emerged as a powerful
alternative to traditional single-objective optimization methods. They were initially applied to …

Ticket to Ride is a popular contemporary board game for two to four players, featuring a
number of expansions with additional maps and tweaks to the core game mechanics. In this …

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 …

A significant issue in game balancing is understanding the game itself. For simple games
end-to-end optimization approaches can help explore the game's design space, but for more …

This paper describes a new evolutionary algorithm that is especially well suited to AI-
Assisted Game Design. The approach adopted in this paper is to use observations of AI …

Most games have, or can be generalised to have, a number of parameters that may be
varied in order to provide instances of games that lead to very different player experiences …

An arcade game is one of the earliest forms of electronic entertainment in the history of
modern video games. Although arcade games have simple rules, people retain their interest …