Balancing the options available to players in a way that ensures rich variety and viability is a
vital factor for the success of any video game, and particularly competitive multiplayer …

The video-game industry has recently grown from focused markets to mainstream. The
advancements the industry has been enjoying motivated researchers to propose techniques …

Different from what happens for most types of software systems, testing video games has
largely remained a manual activity performed by human testers. This is mostly due to the …

Video game testing has become a major investment of time, labor, and expense in the game
industry. Particularly the balancing of in-game units, characters, and classes can cause long …

Board games are extensively studied in the AI community because of their ability to
reflect/represent real-world problems with a high-level of abstraction, and their irreplaceable …

The process of play testing a game is subjective, expensive and incomplete. In this paper,
we present a play-testing approach that explores the game space with automated agents …

Code reviews are popular in both industrial and open source projects. The benefits of code
reviews are widely recognized and include better code quality and lower likelihood of …

Abstract We present our Evolutionary Boss Improvement (EBI) approach, which receives
partially complete bosses as input and generates fully equipped bosses that are complete …

In the board game Ticket to Ride, players race to claim routes and connect cities on a map of
the US In this work, we identify winning strategies for and potential improvements to Ticket to …

As the complexity and scope of games increase, game testing, also called playtesting,
becomes an essential activity to ensure the quality of video games. Yet, the manual, ad-hoc …