Game designers are typically regarded as advocates for players. However, a game creator's
interests may not align with the players'. We examine some of the ways in which those …

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 …

Tanagra is a mixed-initiative tool for level design, allowing a human and a computer to work
together to produce a level for a 2-D platformer. An underlying, reactive level generator …

Emotion has been investigated from various perspectives and across several domains
within human-computer interaction (HCI) including intelligent tutoring systems, interactive …

Procedural Content Generation (PCG) can be a useful tool for aiding creativity in the process
of designing game levels. Mixed-initiative level generation tools where a designer and an …

Launchpad is an autonomous level generator that is based on a formal model of 2-D
platformer level design. Levels are built out of small segments called “rhythm groups,” which …

This paper investigates strategies to generate levels for action-adventure games. For this
genre, level design is more critical than for rule-driven genres such as simulation or rogue …

This paper addresses the problem of evaluating the quality of game levels across different
games and even genres, which is of key importance for making procedural content …

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 …