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 …

Model-driven game development (MDGD) introduces model-driven methodology to the
computer game domain, shifting the focus of game development from coding to modeling to …

Games that use procedural content generation (PCG) do so in a wide variety of ways and for
different reasons. One of the most common reasons cited by PCG system creators and game …

Evaluation is an open problem in procedural content generation research. The field is now
in a state where there is a glut of content generators, each serving different purposes and …

User interface design patterns that document Human-Agent Team (HAT) interface best
practices were developed by analyzing team video games with different types of agents …

The design of role-playing games (RPGs) is very complex, involving an intricate
interweaving of narrative, quest design, and level design. As an important means for …

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology can have a dramatic impact on the quality of video
games. AI planning techniques are useful in a wide range of game components, including …

The unprecedented growth in numbers of children playing computer games has stimulated
discussion and research regarding what, if any, educational value these games have for …

To really exploit the full potential of computer games in areas other than entertainment, it will
be necessary to reduce the high cost associated with their design and development and to …

In early game development phases game designers adjust game rules in a rapid, iterative
and flexible way. In later phases, when software prototypes are available, play testing …