As modern games continue growing both in size and complexity, it has become more
challenging to ensure that all the relevant content is tested and that any potential issues are …

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 …

This article proposes a novel deep reinforcement learning algorithm to perform automated
analysis and detection of gameplay issues in complex 3-D navigation environments. The …

Game developers have employed dynamic difficulty adjustment (DDA) in designing game
artificial intelligence (AI) to improve players' game experience by adjusting the skill of game …

This paper presents a novel approach to automated playtesting for the prediction of human
player behavior and experience. We have previously demonstrated that Deep …

In games, as in many other domains, design validation and testing is a significant challenge
as systems are growing in size and manual testing is becoming infeasible. In this position …

Going from research to production, especially for large and complex software systems, is
fundamentally a hard problem. In large-scale game production, one of the main reasons is …

As the complexity of video games continues to evolve, so does the importance of effective
game testing methodologies. To this end, automated game testing has emerged as a pivotal …

The video gaming industry has evolved into an industry that drives high revenue and
tangentially faces some of the toughest problems in the software engineering domain. With …

Difficulty is one of the key drivers of player engagement, and it is often one of the aspects
that designers tweak most to optimise the player experience; operationalising it is, therefore …