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 …

How the tools and concepts for making games are connected to what games can and do
mean; with examples ranging from Papers, Please to Dys4ia. In How Pac-Man Eats, Noah …

Game maps are useful for human players, general-game-playing agents, and data-driven
procedural content generation. These maps are generally made by hand-assembling …

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 …

While general game playing is an active field of research, the learning of game design has
tended to be either a secondary goal of such research or it has been solely the domain of …

Focusing on game mechanics as a narrative mode, rather than considering story and game
as two separate but related experiences, allows narrative designers to take a more …

Existing game description languages (GDLs) aspire to generality, but their focus on the
specification of low-level mechanics leaves game generators that target these GDLs in the …

Existing approaches to multi-game level generation rely upon level structure to emerge
organically via level fitness. In this paper, we present a method for generating levels for …

In recent years, the game industry has experienced significant growth from both a financial
and a social viewpoint. Developing compelling games that rely on novel content is a …

Dramatic choices are the core of the content in contemporary adventure games like those
produced by Telltale Games and Dontnod Entertainment, developers of the Life is Strange …