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 …

Tools for designing content require a medium that allows the designer to efficiently express
their creativity, and a system that ensures the content being designed adheres to the domain …

Live programming brings code to life with immediate and continuous feedback. To enjoy its
benefits, programmers need powerful languages and live programming environments for …

Live programming is a style of development characterized by incremental change and
immediate feedback. Instead of long edit-compile cycles, developers modify a running …

The term “game mechanic” is often used when discussing games, but are we all talking
about the same thing? While game studies and related fields have produced several notable …

Automated Game Design (AGD) empowers game designers with languages and tools that
automate game design processes. Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) promise to deliver …

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 …

Abstract Automated Game Design studies how to support game designers with the iterative
process of designing, play testing and adjusting prototypes. But while there are many …

Reinforcement learning algorithms have been applied to many research areas in gaming
and non-gaming applications. However, in gaming artificial intelligence (AI), existing …

Procedural level generation for games is an active field of research with successful
applications. However, how to generate content that embodies design intent is still an open …