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Games have always been a popular test bed for artificial intelligence techniques. Game developers are always in constant search for techniques that can automatically create computer games minimizing the developer's task. In this work we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Zahid Halim

The Instruction-Driven Game Engine (IDGE) project aims to democratize game development by enabling a large language model (LLM) to follow free-form game descriptions and generate game-play processes. The IDGE allows users to create games…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Hongqiu Wu , Xingyuan Liu , Yan Wang , Hai Zhao

While general game playing is an active field of research, the learning of game design has tended to be either a secondary goal of such research or it has been solely the domain of humans. We propose a field of research, Automated Game…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Joseph C Osborn , Adam Summerville , Michael Mateas

In this paper, we propose a Quantum variation of combinatorial games, generalizing the Quantum Tic-Tac-Toe proposed by Allan Goff. A combinatorial game is a two-player game with no chance and no hidden information, such as Go or Chess. In…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Paul Dorbec , Mehdi Mhalla

In the naming game, individuals or agents exchange pairwise local information in order to communicate about objects in their common environment. The goal of the game is to reach a consensus about naming these objects. Originally used to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2009-12-24 Reginaldo J. da Silva Filho , Matthias R. Brust , Carlos H. C. Ribeiro

This paper focuses on "tracing player knowledge" in educational games. Specifically, given a set of concepts or skills required to master a game, the goal is to estimate the likelihood with which the current player has mastery of each of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Pavan Kantharaju , Katelyn Alderfer , Jichen Zhu , Bruce Char , Brian Smith , Santiago Ontañón

The challenge of programming classical computers to play traditional, competitive games against human players has helped to advance classical hardware and software. Quantum computers have the potential to play games in a unique way:…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tristan Zaborniak , Vikram Khipple Mulligan

As Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) become increasingly popular, it is promising to automatically provide extracurricular knowledge for MOOC users. Suffering from semantic drifts and lack of knowledge guidance, existing methods can not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Jifan Yu , Chenyu Wang , Gan Luo , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Jie Tang , Zhiyuan Liu

This paper introduces a collection of board games specifically chosen to serve as a basis for programming exercises. We examine the attractiveness of board games in this context as well as features that make a particular game a good…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Maxim Mozgovoy , Marina Purgina

Papert's constructionism makes it clear that learning is particularly effective when learners create tangible artifacts and share and discuss them in social contexts. Technological progress in recent decades has created numerous…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Stefan Pietrusky

This work introduces a unified framework for analyzing games in greater depth. In the existing literature, players' strategies are typically assigned scalar values, and equilibrium concepts are used to identify compatible choices. However,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Melih İşeri , Erhan Bayraktar

We describe the design and implementation of a reasoning engine that facilitates the gamification of loop-invariant discovery. Our reasoning engine enables students, computational agents and regular software engineers with no formal methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Andrew Walter , Seth Cooper , Panagiotis Manolios

This work presents an exploration and imitation-learning-based agent capable of state-of-the-art performance in playing text-based computer games. Text-based computer games describe their world to the player through natural language and…

Inductions and game semantics are two useful extensions to traditional logic programming. To be specific, inductions can capture a wider class of provable formulas in logic programming. Adopting game semantics can make logic programming…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Keehang Kwon

The Instruction-Driven Game Engine (IDGE) project aims to democratize game development by enabling a large language model (LLM) to follow free-form game rules and autonomously generate game-play processes. The IDGE allows users to create…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Hongqiu Wu , Yan Wang , Xingyuan Liu , Hai Zhao , Min Zhang

Consider a $n \times n$ tic-tac-toe board. In each field of the board, draw a smaller $n\times n$ tic-tac-toe board. Now let super tic-tac-toe (STTT) be a game where each player's move dictates which field on the larger board a player must…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-16 Whitney George , Janine E. Janoski

Games offer a compelling paradigm for developing general reasoning capabilities in language models, as they naturally demand strategic planning, probabilistic inference, and adaptive decision-making. However, existing self-play approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xiachong Feng , Deyi Yin , Xiaocheng Feng , Yi Jiang , Libo Qin , Yangfan Ye , Lei Huang , Weitao Ma , Qiming Li , Yuxuan Gu , Bing Qin , Lingpeng Kong

The games research community has developed substantial knowledge on designing engaging experiences that draw players in. Surprisingly, less is known about player \textit{dis}engagement, with existing work predominantly addressing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Dmitry Alexandrovsky , Kathrin Gerling , Merlin Steven Opp , Christopher Benjamin Hahn , Max V. Birk , Meshaiel Alsheail

Recently, in [K.R. Apt and S. Simon: Well-founded extensive games with perfect information, TARK21], we studied well-founded games, a natural extension of finite extensive games with perfect information in which all plays are finite. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Krzysztof R. Apt , Sunil Simon

In recent years, the games industry has made a major move towards data-driven development, using data analytics and player modeling to inform design decisions. Data-driven techniques are beneficial as they allow for the study of player…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Magy Seif El-Nasr , Erica Kleinman