Procedural content generation in video games has a long history. Existing procedural
content generation methods, such as search-based, solver-based, rule-based and grammar …

Providing an appropriate difficulty level in a game is critical for kee** players engaged.
Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment (DDA) is a common approach for optimizing player …

Video game analytics are widely adopted within academia and industrial development–yet,
the player's perspective is rarely considered as a driving factor, even though vast …

The concept of dealing damage is established and widespread in video games. With
growing complexity and countless interactions in modern games, capturing how damage …

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

Fear is a basic human emotion that can be triggered by different situations, which vary from
person to person. However, game developers usually design horror games based on a …

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 …

Identifying explainable player strategies and decision patterns that give insights into player
behavior is one of the most difficult tasks for game analytics, yet yields great informative …

Visualization tools have aided game analytics in a multitude of ways. Yet, producing
customized representations that focus on specific research questions remains an open …