Exploration is found in a variety of game genres, but there has been little research in the context of PCG. This paper investigates the potential for exploratory agents to provide feedback on how well levels support exploration, with the ultimate goal ...

Procedural Content Generation (PCG) has demonstrated its capability to create compelling game content across various domains, including racing games. In this paper, a novel approach utilizing PCG is presented that aims to generate racetracks with the ...

Surprise is a key factor for driving engagement in video games. By incorporating unexpected elements, games can create a sense of excitement and curiosity, leading to a more immersive and enjoyable experience. In this paper, we propose a framework for ...

Archaeogaming and queer games studies have both grown as paradigms in the last decade. The former broadly refers to the archaeological study of games, while the latter concerns the application of queer theory to the medium. To date, there has been ...

Latency impacts individual responsiveness and player-versus-player fairness in first-person shooter (FPS) games, degrading the quality of experience (QoE). Time delay applies a fixed latency to players with lower latency to make the game fair, but has ...

Creators of digital artifacts are increasingly competing with generative artificial intelligence. Next to common plagiarism, this is another reason why proving one’s authorship becomes increasingly important. One way to support this proof is to document ...

Today, many modern gaming platforms use a reward system where players actively collect rewards and form communities around these rewards. Reward systems in games are used to celebrate players when they accomplish specific tasks, levels, or objectives ...

Over the last few years, substantial progress has been made both in citation standards for interactive media and in technologies to support easy collection, reference, and sharing of citations of interactive works. We are developing a suite of software ...

The demand for remote learning and virtual tours increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic. While virtual reality training simulations and digital twins have been used in educational settings for a long time, user-friendly methods of ...

One of the major challenges in procedural generation of game rules is evaluating the generated content. Since the effect of a rule on game balance and complexity might not be immediately apparent, one way to evaluate such a content is to simulate the ...

As of 2023, education surrounding game design has become a fixture in university education systems around the world. As the teaching of game design is an inherently interdisciplinary subject with many connections to the arts and humanities, there are a ...

In first-person shooter (FPS) games, the peeker’s advantage is the edge the moving peeker gets when battling a stationary defender at a corner due to network latency. However, confirmation of (the size of) this advantage based on network latency and the ...

In recent years, video games have surged in popularity, attracting millions of players across platforms. Citizen science games (CSGs) leverage the processing power of gamers to solve computational and scientific problems. Borderlands Science (BLS) is a ...