Machine playtesting systems often aim to demonstrate how to reach certain moments of
play. To provide design feedback in a timely manner, they often internally rely on heuristic …

Pathfinding is the search of an optimal path between two points on a graph. This paper
investigates the performance of pathfinding algorithms within 3D voxel environments …

Exploration has shown to be difficult in games where the reward space is sparse. The agent
has trouble reaching any reward and therefore cannot learn a good policy. One recent …