This paper presents the framework, rules, games, controllers, and results of the first General
Video Game Playing Competition, held at the IEEE Conference on Computational …

Digital games are a powerful means for creating enticing, beautiful, educational, and often
highly addictive interactive experiences that impact the lives of billions of players worldwide …

The goal of General Game Playing (GGP) has been to develop computer programs that can
perform well across various game types. It is natural for human game players to transfer …

Making a game requires a diverse set of skills and talents: visual design, sound design, level
design and narrative design require developers to be creative within their own domain but …

We sketch the process of creating a novel video game by blending two video games
specified in the Video Game Description Language (VGDL), following the COINVENT …

Little did Paul Klint know that when he asked me survey “languages for games”, it would
take me the better part of a decade to complete the work this entailed. Over the years …

This thesis explores the field of data-driven procedural content generation for games. Data-
driven games, also called data games, employ the use of data, often freely available data, to …