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CS:GO

• [Publication] How Players Learn Team-versus-Team Esports: First Results from A Grounded Theory Study

Dota2

• [Publication] How Players Learn Team-versus-Team Esports: First Results from A Grounded Theory Study

ICML'23

• [Publication] Posterior Sampling for Deep Reinforcement Learning

aaai

• [Publication] Efficient Evolutionary Methods for Game Agent Optimisation: Model-Based is Best
• [Publication] Tackling Sparse Rewards in Real-Time Games with Statistical Forward Planning Methods

aamas

• [Publication] Action Advising with Advice Imitation in Deep Reinforcement Learning

abstract

• [Publication] Abstract Forward Models

accessibility

• [Publication] AI for Accessibility in Games

action-advising

• [Publication] Learning on a Budget via Teacher Imitation
• [Publication] Student-Initiated Action Advising via Advice Novelty

action-spaces

• [Publication] Generalising Discrete Action Spaces with Conditional Action Trees

ai

• 2022-08-25 Thu. Reflections: How to Organize Game AI Competitions?
• 2021-09-03 Fri. [Seminar] 'Planning and learning' by Piotr Miłoś
• [Publication] Generating Diverse and Competitive Play-Styles for Strategy Games
• [Publication] Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Portfolio Search and Optimization for General Strategy Game-Playing
• 2021-06-15 Tue. [Seminar] 'The AI and Games Co-Revolution' by Georgios Yannakakis

aiide

• [Publication] TAG: Terraforming Mars
• 2020-09-23 Wed. GAIG @ AIIDE 2020
• [Publication] Tribes: A New Turn-Based Strategy Game for AI
• [Publication] MCTS Pruning in Turn-Based Strategy Games
• [Publication] Studying General Agents in Video Games from the Perspective of Player Experience
• [Publication] TAG: A Tabletop Games Framework
• [Publication] STRATEGA: A General Strategy Games Framework
• [Publication] Analysis of Statistical Forward Planning Methods in Pommerman
• [Publication] Modeling Player Experience with the N-Tuple Bandit Evolutionary Algorithm
• [Publication] VERTIGO: Visualisation of Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms in GVGAI

alpha-go

• 2020-03-05 Thu. [Seminar] 'Challenges of deep reinforcement learning, and the example of AlphaStar' by Tom Schaul
• 2019-05-20 Mon. [Seminar] 'AlphaGo in Chemistry – Solving Real-World Problems by Means of Game AI Methods' by Mike Preuss

alpha-star

• 2020-03-05 Thu. [Seminar] 'Challenges of deep reinforcement learning, and the example of AlphaStar' by Tom Schaul

analysis

• [Publication] Shallow decision-making analysis in General Video Game Playing

applications

• 2022-11-02 Wed. [Call for Applications] EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) 2023
• 2021-11-08 Mon. [Call for Applications] EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) 2021
• 2021-05-05 Wed. [Call for Applications] EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) 2021
• 2020-11-24 Tue. [Call for Applications] EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) 2021
• 2018-11-27 Tue. [Call for Applications] EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) 2019
• 2018-11-27 Tue. [Call for Applications] 2018 Fully-funded PhD studentships in Game AI
• 2017-11-27 Mon. [Call for Applications] EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) 2018

arcade-games

• [Publication] Pac-Man Conquers Academia: Two Decades of Research Using a Classic Arcade Game

art

• [Publication] Evolving Neural Style Transfer Blends
• [Publication] Adapting and Enhancing Evolutionary Art for Casual Creation
• [Publication] Camera Obscurer: Generative Art for Design Inspiration

artificial-characters

• 2019-03-26 Tue. [Seminar] 'Building AI Dialogue Tools for Non-Technical Authors' by Emily Short

artificial-general-intelligence

• [Publication] Rinascimento: using event-value functions for playing Splendor

artificial-intelligence

• 2021-11-18 Thu. [Seminar] 'Sublime Cognition and Strange Tools' by Matthew De Abaitua

arxiv

• [Publication] Generating Diverse and Competitive Play-Styles for Strategy Games
• [Publication] Learning on a Budget via Teacher Imitation
• [Publication] Expressivity of Parameterized and Data-driven Representations in Quality Diversity Search
• [Publication] Portfolio Search and Optimization for General Strategy Game-Playing
• [Publication] The Social Responsibility of Game AI
• [Publication] The Road Less Travelled: Trying And Failing To Generate Walking Simulators
• [Publication] Rinascimento: searching the behaviour space of Splendor
• [Publication] Generalising Discrete Action Spaces with Conditional Action Trees
• [Publication] The Design Of Stratega: A General Strategy Games Framework
• [Publication] Student-Initiated Action Advising via Advice Novelty
• [Publication] Weighting NTBEA for Game AI Optimisation
• [Publication] AI and Wargaming
• [Publication] Design and Implemenation of TAG: A Tabletop Games Framework
• [Publication] Generative Forensics: Procedural Generation and Information Games
• [Publication] Camera Obscurer: Generative Art for Design Inspiration
• [Publication] NeurIPS 2019 Competition: The MineRL Competition on Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning using Human Priors

audio

• 2020-08-13 Thu. [Seminar] 'Squeezer: a Juice prototyping tool for Unity' by Mads Johansen
• [Publication] 'Did You Hear That?' Learning to Play Video Games from Audio Cues

augmented-reality

• [Publication] Modelling Player Preferences in AR Mobile Games

believability

• [Publication] Studying Believability Assessment in Racing Games

benchmark

• [Publication] Rinascimento: using event-value functions for playing Splendor

bimanual-coordination

• [Publication] Exploring User Motor Behaviour in Bimanual Interactive Video Games

blood-bowl

• 2020-09-10 Thu. [Seminar] 'Towards Adaptive Game-playing Agents' by Niels Justesen

board-games

• 2020-08-05 Wed. [Seminar] 'General Board Geometry' by Cameron Browne

boardgames

• 2020-09-10 Thu. [Seminar] 'Towards Adaptive Game-playing Agents' by Niels Justesen

book

• [Publication] General Video Game Artificial Intelligence
• [Publication] Evolving behaviour tree structures using grammatical evolution

bridge

• 2017-11-06 Mon. [Seminar] 'Bridge: a new challenge for AI?' by Dr. Véronique Ventos

card-games

• [Publication] Efficient Heuristic Policy Optimisation for a Challenging Strategic Card Game

casual-creators

• [Publication] Casual Creators in the Wild: A Typology of Commercial Generative Creativity Support Tools
• [Publication] Adapting and Enhancing Evolutionary Art for Casual Creation

ceec

• [Publication] Extracting learning curves from puzzle games

chemistry

• 2019-05-20 Mon. [Seminar] 'AlphaGo in Chemistry – Solving Real-World Problems by Means of Game AI Methods' by Mike Preuss

ciml

• [Publication] The Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in MalmO (MARLO) Competition

co-creativity

• [Publication] General Analytical Techniques For Parameter-Based Procedural Content Generators

cog

• 2022-08-25 Thu. Reflections: How to Organize Game AI Competitions?
• 2022-08-24 Wed. GAIG @ IEEE COG 2022
• 2020-07-28 Tue. GAIG @ IEEE COG 2020

competition

• [Publication] The Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in MalmO (MARLO) Competition

competitions

• 2022-08-25 Thu. Reflections: How to Organize Game AI Competitions?
• 2020-09-10 Thu. [Seminar] 'Towards Adaptive Game-playing Agents' by Niels Justesen

computational-creativity

• [Publication] Expressivity of Parameterized and Data-driven Representations in Quality Diversity Search
• [Publication] Danesh: Interactive Tools For Understanding Procedural Content Generators
• [Publication] Controlling Self-organization in Generative Creative Systems
• [Publication] Casual Creators in the Wild: A Typology of Commercial Generative Creativity Support Tools
• [Publication] Explainable Computational Creativity
• [Publication] Intrinsic Motivation in Computational Creativity Applied to Videogames
• [Publication] Software Engineering For Automated Game Design
• [Publication] Procedural Generation and Information Games
• [Publication] On the Machine Condition and its Creative Expression
• [Publication] Evolving Neural Style Transfer Blends
• [Publication] Creativity Theatre for Demonstrable Computational Creativity
• [Publication] Adapting and Enhancing Evolutionary Art for Casual Creation
• [Publication] Bridging Generative Deep Learning and Computational Creativity
• [Publication] Camera Obscurer: Generative Art for Design Inspiration
• [Publication] The importance of applying computational creativity to scientific and mathematical domains
• [Publication] Hyperstate Space Graphs for Automated Game Analysis
• [Publication] Framing In Computational Creativity-A Survey And Taxonomy
• [Publication] The HR3 System for Automated Code Generation in Creative Settings
• 2019-04-02 Tue. [Seminar] 'Compressing Space, Warping Perception And Projecting Flowers Onto Cups Of Tea' by Dr Micheal Cook
• 2018-03-14 Wed. [Seminar] 'Perfect, Immortal Machines: The Future Of Automated Game Design' by Dr Micheal Cook
• 2018-01-23 Tue. [Seminar] 'Computational Creativity and Videogame Design' by Prof. Simon Colton

conferences

• 2022-08-25 Thu. Reflections: How to Organize Game AI Competitions?
• 2022-08-24 Wed. GAIG @ IEEE COG 2022
• 2020-09-23 Wed. GAIG @ AIIDE 2020
• 2020-09-10 Thu. GAIG @ ICCC 2020
• 2020-07-28 Tue. GAIG @ IEEE COG 2020

content-creation

• [Publication] Modelling Player Preferences in AR Mobile Games

cooperative

• 2020-09-09 Wed. [Seminar] 'Factored Value Functions for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning' by Shimon Whiteson

coordination

• 2020-09-01 Tue. [Seminar] 'Self-Play and Zero-Shot (Human-AI) Coordination (in Hanabi)' by Jakob Foerster

dagstuhl

• [Publication] AI for Accessibility in Games
• [Publication] Procedural Content Generation for Minecraft
• [Publication] Abstract Forward Models
• [Publication] Gameplay Evaluation Measures
• [Publication] A General Language for Matching Tile Games
• [Publication] Game Search Space Design and Representation

deep-learning

• [Publication] Bridging Generative Deep Learning and Computational Creativity

deep-reinforcement-learning

• 2020-03-05 Thu. [Seminar] 'Challenges of deep reinforcement learning, and the example of AlphaStar' by Tom Schaul

deepmind

• 2020-03-05 Thu. [Seminar] 'Challenges of deep reinforcement learning, and the example of AlphaStar' by Tom Schaul

digra

• [Publication] How Players Learn Team-versus-Team Esports: First Results from A Grounded Theory Study

effects

• 2020-08-13 Thu. [Seminar] 'Squeezer: a Juice prototyping tool for Unity' by Mads Johansen

emcts

• [Publication] Efficient Heuristic Policy Optimisation for a Challenging Strategic Card Game

ensemble-decision-systems

• [Publication] Ensemble Decision Systems for General Video Game Playing

environments

• 2021-06-02 Wed. [Seminar] 'The NetHack Learning Environment' by Tim Rocktäschel

esports

• [Publication] How Players Learn Team-versus-Team Esports: First Results from A Grounded Theory Study
• 2018-11-26 Mon. [Seminar] 'The Blurring of Video Games and Gambling: Daily Fantasy, Esports, Live Streaming, and Loot Boxes' by Dr Mark R. Johnson

evaluation

• 2020-09-10 Thu. [Seminar] 'Towards Adaptive Game-playing Agents' by Niels Justesen
• [Publication] Evaluating Generalization in General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Evolving Game State Evaluation Functions for a Hybrid Planning Approach
• [Publication] Gameplay Evaluation Measures

events

• 2022-08-24 Wed. GAIG @ IEEE COG 2022
• 2020-11-06 Fri. GAIG @ QMUL EECS Research Week 2020
• 2020-09-23 Wed. GAIG @ AIIDE 2020
• 2020-09-10 Thu. GAIG @ ICCC 2020
• 2020-07-28 Tue. GAIG @ IEEE COG 2020

evo-star

• [Publication] Efficient Heuristic Policy Optimisation for a Challenging Strategic Card Game
• [Publication] Adapting and Enhancing Evolutionary Art for Casual Creation
• [Publication] Camera Obscurer: Generative Art for Design Inspiration
• [Publication] Self-adaptive MCTS for General Video Game Playing

evolutionary-algorithm

• [Publication] Efficient Noisy Optimisation with the Multi-Sample and Sliding Window Compact Genetic Algorithms

evolutionary-algorithms

• [Publication] Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Enhanced Rolling Horizon Evolution Algorithm with Opponent Model Learning
• [Publication] Interactive evolution and exploration within latent level-design space of generative adversarial networks
• [Publication] Weighting NTBEA for Game AI Optimisation
• [Publication] Evolving Neural Style Transfer Blends
• [Publication] PlayMapper: Illuminating Design Spaces of Platform Games
• [Publication] Evolving Game State Evaluation Functions for a Hybrid Planning Approach
• [Publication] Tile Pattern KL-Divergence for Analysing and Evolving Game Levels
• [Publication] Game AI Hyperparameter Tuning in Rinascimento
• [Publication] Evolving behaviour tree structures using grammatical evolution
• [Publication] The N-Tuple Bandit Evolutionary Algorithm for Game Agent Optimisation

evolutionary-computation

• 2019-04-30 Tue. [Seminar] 'Evolutionary MCTS for Game AI and Beyond' by Hendrik Baier
• 2018-03-08 Thu. [Seminar] 'Combining Evolution and Learning' by Chrisantha Fernando (Google DeepMind)

evostar

• [Publication] Controlling Self-organization in Generative Creative Systems
• [Publication] Evolving Neural Style Transfer Blends

exag

• [Publication] TAG: A Tabletop Games Framework

fdg

• [Publication] Tabletop Roleplaying Games as Procedural Content Generators
• [Publication] Studying Believability Assessment in Racing Games

fighting-games

• [Publication] Enhanced Rolling Horizon Evolution Algorithm with Opponent Model Learning
• [Publication] Metagame Autobalancing for Competitive Multiplayer Games

forward-model

• [Publication] Abstract Forward Models

forward-model-learning

• [Publication] Local Forward Model Learning for GVGAI Games
• [Publication] A Local Approach to Forward Model Learning: Results on the Game of Life Game
• [Publication] Learning Local Forward Models on Unforgiving Games

gaig

• 2022-08-24 Wed. GAIG @ IEEE COG 2022
• 2020-12-08 Tue. GAIG in the Media: Evening Standard
• 2020-11-06 Fri. GAIG @ QMUL EECS Research Week 2020
• 2020-09-23 Wed. GAIG @ AIIDE 2020
• 2020-09-10 Thu. GAIG @ ICCC 2020
• 2020-07-28 Tue. GAIG @ IEEE COG 2020

game-ai

• 2022-08-25 Thu. Reflections: How to Organize Game AI Competitions?

game-analysis

• [Publication] TAG: Terraforming Mars

game-balance

• [Publication] Metagame Autobalancing for Competitive Multiplayer Games

game-description-language

• [Publication] A General Language for Matching Tile Games

game-design

• 2020-08-13 Thu. [Seminar] 'Squeezer: a Juice prototyping tool for Unity' by Mads Johansen
• 2020-08-05 Wed. [Seminar] 'General Board Geometry' by Cameron Browne
• [Publication] Practical Game Design Tool: State Explorer
• [Publication] Software Engineering For Automated Game Design
• [Publication] Camera Obscurer: Generative Art for Design Inspiration
• [Publication] The Games Fusion Project: Competencies for Game Design
• 2019-04-02 Tue. [Seminar] 'Compressing Space, Warping Perception And Projecting Flowers Onto Cups Of Tea' by Dr Micheal Cook
• [Publication] Using a Team of General AI Algorithms to Assist Game Design and Testing
• [Publication] Game Search Space Design and Representation
• 2018-03-14 Wed. [Seminar] 'Perfect, Immortal Machines: The Future Of Automated Game Design' by Dr Micheal Cook
• 2018-01-23 Tue. [Seminar] 'Computational Creativity and Videogame Design' by Prof. Simon Colton

game-development

• [Publication] Cross-Platform Games in Kotlin
• [Publication] Towards Liveness in Game Development

game-learning

• [Publication] How Players Learn Team-versus-Team Esports: First Results from A Grounded Theory Study

game-playing

• 2021-06-02 Wed. [Seminar] 'The NetHack Learning Environment' by Tim Rocktäschel
• 2020-09-10 Thu. [Seminar] 'Towards Adaptive Game-playing Agents' by Niels Justesen
• [Publication] Rinascimento: using event-value functions for playing Splendor
• 2019-05-20 Mon. [Seminar] 'AlphaGo in Chemistry – Solving Real-World Problems by Means of Game AI Methods' by Mike Preuss
• 2019-04-30 Tue. [Seminar] 'Evolutionary MCTS for Game AI and Beyond' by Hendrik Baier
• 2019-03-26 Tue. [Seminar] 'TextWorld' by Marc-Alexandre Côté
• 2019-02-15 Fri. [Seminar] 'Solving 10×10 Hex' by Ryan Hayward
• 2019-02-12 Tue. [Seminar] 'Generalisation of Simulation-Based Search for Autonomous Gameplaying' by Alexander Dockhorn
• 2019-01-31 Thu. [Seminar] 'Agents with internal models' by Theophane Weber
• 2018-12-05 Wed. [Seminar] 'Advancing Video Game AI With Intrinsically Motivated Reinforcement Learning' by Christian Guckelsberger
• 2018-03-08 Thu. [Seminar] 'Combining Evolution and Learning' by Chrisantha Fernando (Google DeepMind)
• 2017-11-06 Mon. [Seminar] 'Bridge: a new challenge for AI?' by Dr. Véronique Ventos
• 2017-10-03 Tue. [Seminar] 'Computer Hanabi: Playing Near-Optimally or Learning by Reinforcement ?' by Dr. Bruno Bouzy

game-testing

• [Publication] Using a Team of General AI Algorithms to Assist Game Design and Testing

games

• 2022-08-25 Thu. Reflections: How to Organize Game AI Competitions?
• [Publication] Generating Diverse and Competitive Play-Styles for Strategy Games
• [Publication] Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Portfolio Search and Optimization for General Strategy Game-Playing
• 2021-06-15 Tue. [Seminar] 'The AI and Games Co-Revolution' by Georgios Yannakakis

games-industry

• 2017-11-06 Mon. [Panel Session] Meet the games industry

gan

• [Publication] Interactive evolution and exploration within latent level-design space of generative adversarial networks
• [Publication] Evolving Mario Levels in the Latent Space of a Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network

gecco

• [Publication] Interactive evolution and exploration within latent level-design space of generative adversarial networks
• [Publication] Tile Pattern KL-Divergence for Analysing and Evolving Game Levels
• [Publication] Game AI Hyperparameter Tuning in Rinascimento
• [Publication] Evolving Mario Levels in the Latent Space of a Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network

general-game-playing

• [Publication] TAG: Terraforming Mars
• 2020-08-05 Wed. [Seminar] 'General Board Geometry' by Cameron Browne
• [Publication] Design and Implemenation of TAG: A Tabletop Games Framework
• [Publication] TAG: A Tabletop Games Framework

general-vide-game-playing

• [Publication] Rolling Horizon NEAT for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Self-Adaptive Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Evaluating Generalization in General Video Game Playing

general-video-game-playing

• [Publication] Portfolio Search and Optimization for General Strategy Game-Playing
• [Publication] The Design Of Stratega: A General Strategy Games Framework
• [Publication] Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] STRATEGA: A General Strategy Games Framework
• [Publication] Local Forward Model Learning for GVGAI Games
• [Publication] Neural Game Engine: Accurate learning of generalizable forward models from pixels
• [Publication] General Video Game AI: a Multi-Track Framework for Evaluating Agents Games and Content Generation Algorithms
• [Publication] General Video Game Artificial Intelligence
• [Publication] Project Thyia: A Forever Gameplayer
• [Publication] Tackling Sparse Rewards in Real-Time Games with Statistical Forward Planning Methods
• [Publication] 'Did You Hear That?' Learning to Play Video Games from Audio Cues
• [Publication] Deep Reinforcement Learning for General Video Game AI
• [Publication] Self-adaptive MCTS for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Using a Team of General AI Algorithms to Assist Game Design and Testing
• [Publication] General Win Prediction from Agent Experience
• [Publication] VERTIGO: Visualisation of Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms in GVGAI
• [Publication] The 2016 Two-Player GVGAI Competition
• [Publication] Shallow decision-making analysis in General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Toward General Mathematical Game Playing Agents

generative-software-analysis

• [Publication] Danesh: Interactive Tools For Understanding Procedural Content Generators

generative-systems-analysis

• [Publication] General Analytical Techniques For Parameter-Based Procedural Content Generators

genetic-algorithm

• [Publication] Efficient Noisy Optimisation with the Multi-Sample and Sliding Window Compact Genetic Algorithms

genetic-programming

• [Publication] A survey of statistical machine learning elements in genetic programming

grammatical-evolution

• [Publication] Evolving behaviour tree structures using grammatical evolution

griddly

• [Publication] Griddly: A platform for AI research in games

grounded-theory

• [Publication] How Players Learn Team-versus-Team Esports: First Results from A Grounded Theory Study

gvgai

• [Publication] Rolling Horizon NEAT for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Studying General Agents in Video Games from the Perspective of Player Experience
• [Publication] Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Self-Adaptive Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Local Forward Model Learning for GVGAI Games
• [Publication] Neural Game Engine: Accurate learning of generalizable forward models from pixels
• [Publication] Evaluating Generalization in General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] General Video Game AI: a Multi-Track Framework for Evaluating Agents Games and Content Generation Algorithms
• [Publication] General Video Game Artificial Intelligence
• [Publication] Project Thyia: A Forever Gameplayer
• [Publication] Tackling Sparse Rewards in Real-Time Games with Statistical Forward Planning Methods
• [Publication] 'Did You Hear That?' Learning to Play Video Games from Audio Cues
• [Publication] Optimising Level Generators for General Video Game AI
• [Publication] Ensemble Decision Systems for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Gameplay Evaluation Measures
• [Publication] Deep Reinforcement Learning for General Video Game AI
• [Publication] Self-adaptive MCTS for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Modeling Player Experience with the N-Tuple Bandit Evolutionary Algorithm
• [Publication] General Win Prediction from Agent Experience
• [Publication] VERTIGO: Visualisation of Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms in GVGAI
• [Publication] The 2016 Two-Player GVGAI Competition
• [Publication] Shallow decision-making analysis in General Video Game Playing
• 2018-02-19 Mon. General Video Game AI tutorial at QMUL GradFest 2018

hanabi

• 2020-09-01 Tue. [Seminar] 'Self-Play and Zero-Shot (Human-AI) Coordination (in Hanabi)' by Jakob Foerster
• 2017-10-03 Tue. [Seminar] 'Computer Hanabi: Playing Near-Optimally or Learning by Reinforcement ?' by Dr. Bruno Bouzy

hci

• 2020-09-01 Tue. [Seminar] 'Self-Play and Zero-Shot (Human-AI) Coordination (in Hanabi)' by Jakob Foerster

hex

• 2019-02-15 Fri. [Seminar] 'Solving 10×10 Hex' by Ryan Hayward

hyper-parameter

• [Publication] Rinascimento: using event-value functions for playing Splendor

iccc

• 2020-09-10 Thu. GAIG @ ICCC 2020
• [Publication] Casual Creators in the Wild: A Typology of Commercial Generative Creativity Support Tools
• [Publication] Explainable Computational Creativity
• [Publication] On the Machine Condition and its Creative Expression
• [Publication] Creativity Theatre for Demonstrable Computational Creativity
• [Publication] Bridging Generative Deep Learning and Computational Creativity
• [Publication] The importance of applying computational creativity to scientific and mathematical domains
• [Publication] Framing In Computational Creativity-A Survey And Taxonomy
• [Publication] The HR3 System for Automated Code Generation in Creative Settings

ieee-cec

• [Publication] Does it matter how well I know what you’re thinking? Opponent Modelling in an RTS game
• [Publication] The N-Tuple Bandit Evolutionary Algorithm for Game Agent Optimisation

ieee-cog

• [Publication] Practical Game Design Tool: State Explorer
• [Publication] Rolling Horizon NEAT for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Modulation of viability signals for self-regulatory control
• [Publication] Bootstrapped model learning and error correction for planning with uncertainty in model-based RL
• [Publication] Cross-Platform Games in Kotlin
• [Publication] Metagame Autobalancing for Competitive Multiplayer Games
• [Publication] Self-Adaptive Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Local Forward Model Learning for GVGAI Games
• [Publication] Software Engineering For Automated Game Design
• [Publication] Procedural Generation and Information Games
• [Publication] Rinascimento: using event-value functions for playing Splendor
• [Publication] Neural Game Engine: Accurate learning of generalizable forward models from pixels
• [Publication] Evaluating Generalization in General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] PlayMapper: Illuminating Design Spaces of Platform Games
• [Publication] Modelling Player Preferences in AR Mobile Games
• [Publication] Mek: Mechanics Prototyping Tool for 2D Tile-Based Turn-Based Deterministic Games
• [Publication] The Games Fusion Project: Competencies for Game Design
• [Publication] Exploring User Motor Behaviour in Bimanual Interactive Video Games
• [Publication] Evolving Game State Evaluation Functions for a Hybrid Planning Approach
• [Publication] Towards Liveness in Game Development
• [Publication] A Local Approach to Forward Model Learning: Results on the Game of Life Game
• [Publication] Teaching on a Budget in Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
• [Publication] Project Thyia: A Forever Gameplayer
• [Publication] 'Did You Hear That?' Learning to Play Video Games from Audio Cues
• [Publication] Optimising Level Generators for General Video Game AI
• [Publication] Learning Local Forward Models on Unforgiving Games
• [Publication] Hyperstate Space Graphs for Automated Game Analysis
• [Publication] General Analytical Techniques For Parameter-Based Procedural Content Generators
• [Publication] Rinascimento: Optimising Statistical Forward Planning Agents for Playing Splendor
• [Publication] Ensemble Decision Systems for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Deep Reinforcement Learning for General Video Game AI
• [Publication] Game AI Research with Fast Planet Wars Variants
• [Publication] Using a Team of General AI Algorithms to Assist Game Design and Testing
• [Publication] General Win Prediction from Agent Experience
• [Publication] Shallow decision-making analysis in General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Toward General Mathematical Game Playing Agents

ieee-tevc

• [Publication] A survey of statistical machine learning elements in genetic programming

ieee-tog

• [Publication] Danesh: Interactive Tools For Understanding Procedural Content Generators
• [Publication] Enhanced Rolling Horizon Evolution Algorithm with Opponent Model Learning
• [Publication] Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] General Video Game AI: a Multi-Track Framework for Evaluating Agents Games and Content Generation Algorithms
• [Publication] The 2016 Two-Player GVGAI Competition
• [Publication] Pac-Man Conquers Academia: Two Decades of Research Using a Classic Arcade Game

iggi

• 2022-11-02 Wed. [Call for Applications] EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) 2023
• 2021-11-08 Mon. [Call for Applications] EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) 2021
• 2021-05-05 Wed. [Call for Applications] EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) 2021
• 2020-11-24 Tue. [Call for Applications] EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) 2021
• 2018-11-27 Tue. [Call for Applications] EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) 2019
• 2017-11-27 Mon. [Call for Applications] EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) 2018

information-games

• [Publication] Procedural Generation and Information Games
• [Publication] Generative Forensics: Procedural Generation and Information Games

intrinsic-motivation

• [Publication] Intrinsic Motivation in Computational Creativity Applied to Videogames
• 2018-12-05 Wed. [Seminar] 'Advancing Video Game AI With Intrinsically Motivated Reinforcement Learning' by Christian Guckelsberger

learning

• 2021-09-03 Fri. [Seminar] 'Planning and learning' by Piotr Miłoś

learning-curves

• [Publication] Extracting learning curves from puzzle games

learning-forward-models

• [Publication] Neural Game Engine: Accurate learning of generalizable forward models from pixels

learning-game-models

• 2019-02-12 Tue. [Seminar] 'Generalisation of Simulation-Based Search for Autonomous Gameplaying' by Alexander Dockhorn
• 2019-01-31 Thu. [Seminar] 'Agents with internal models' by Theophane Weber

level-generation

• [Publication] Optimising Level Generators for General Video Game AI

linear-classifiers

• [Publication] Modelling Player Preferences in AR Mobile Games

loot-boxes

• [Publication] The hidden intricacy of loot box design: A granular description of random monetized reward features

machine-learning

• [Publication] A survey of statistical machine learning elements in genetic programming

map-elites

• [Publication] Generating Diverse and Competitive Play-Styles for Strategy Games
• [Publication] Rinascimento: searching the behaviour space of Splendor
• [Publication] PlayMapper: Illuminating Design Spaces of Platform Games

mario

• [Publication] Evolving Mario Levels in the Latent Space of a Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network
• [Publication] Evolving behaviour tree structures using grammatical evolution

marlo

• [Publication] The Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in MalmO (MARLO) Competition

mathematical-games

• [Publication] Toward General Mathematical Game Playing Agents

mcts

• [Publication] TAG: Terraforming Mars
• [Publication] Generating Diverse and Competitive Play-Styles for Strategy Games
• [Publication] Tribes: A New Turn-Based Strategy Game for AI
• [Publication] The Design Of Stratega: A General Strategy Games Framework
• [Publication] Abstract Forward Models
• [Publication] MCTS Pruning in Turn-Based Strategy Games
• [Publication] Design and Implemenation of TAG: A Tabletop Games Framework
• [Publication] TAG: A Tabletop Games Framework
• [Publication] STRATEGA: A General Strategy Games Framework
• [Publication] Neural Game Engine: Accurate learning of generalizable forward models from pixels
• [Publication] Analysis of Statistical Forward Planning Methods in Pommerman
• [Publication] Evolving Game State Evaluation Functions for a Hybrid Planning Approach
• [Publication] Tackling Sparse Rewards in Real-Time Games with Statistical Forward Planning Methods
• 2019-05-20 Mon. [Seminar] 'AlphaGo in Chemistry – Solving Real-World Problems by Means of Game AI Methods' by Mike Preuss
• 2019-04-30 Tue. [Seminar] 'Evolutionary MCTS for Game AI and Beyond' by Hendrik Baier
• [Publication] Self-adaptive MCTS for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] General Win Prediction from Agent Experience
• [Publication] The 2016 Two-Player GVGAI Competition
• [Publication] Shallow decision-making analysis in General Video Game Playing

media

• 2020-12-08 Tue. GAIG in the Media: Evening Standard

microrts

• [Publication] Gym-μRTS: Toward Affordable Full Game Real-time Strategy Games Research with Deep Reinforcement Learning
• [Publication] Evolving Game State Evaluation Functions for a Hybrid Planning Approach

minecraft

• [Publication] Procedural Content Generation for Minecraft
• [Publication] NeurIPS 2019 Competition: The MineRL Competition on Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning using Human Priors

mobile-games

• [Publication] Modelling Player Preferences in AR Mobile Games

motor-behaviour

• [Publication] Exploring User Motor Behaviour in Bimanual Interactive Video Games

multi-agent

• 2020-09-09 Wed. [Seminar] 'Factored Value Functions for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning' by Shimon Whiteson
• [Publication] The Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in MalmO (MARLO) Competition

music

• 2021-09-28 Tue. [Seminar] 'Music Informatics: Measuring and Modelling Music' by Simon Dixon

neat

• [Publication] Rolling Horizon NEAT for General Video Game Playing

neurips

• [Publication] NeurIPS 2019 Competition: The MineRL Competition on Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning using Human Priors
• [Publication] The Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in MalmO (MARLO) Competition

news

• 2020-12-08 Tue. GAIG in the Media: Evening Standard

nlp

• 2020-03-02 Mon. [Seminar] 'Grounded Language Learning in Virtual Environments' by Stephen Clark

ntbea

• [Publication] Portfolio Search and Optimization for General Strategy Game-Playing
• [Publication] Efficient Heuristic Policy Optimisation for a Challenging Strategic Card Game
• [Publication] Weighting NTBEA for Game AI Optimisation
• [Publication] Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Efficient Evolutionary Methods for Game Agent Optimisation: Model-Based is Best
• [Publication] The N-Tuple Bandit Evolutionary Algorithm for Game Agent Optimisation
• [Publication] Modeling Player Experience with the N-Tuple Bandit Evolutionary Algorithm

oep

• [Publication] Efficient Heuristic Policy Optimisation for a Challenging Strategic Card Game

opponent-modelling

• [Publication] Enhanced Rolling Horizon Evolution Algorithm with Opponent Model Learning
• [Publication] Does it matter how well I know what you’re thinking? Opponent Modelling in an RTS game

optimisation

• [Publication] Expressivity of Parameterized and Data-driven Representations in Quality Diversity Search
• [Publication] Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Portfolio Search and Optimization for General Strategy Game-Playing
• [Publication] Efficient Heuristic Policy Optimisation for a Challenging Strategic Card Game
• [Publication] Weighting NTBEA for Game AI Optimisation
• [Publication] Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Self-Adaptive Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Rinascimento: using event-value functions for playing Splendor
• [Publication] Efficient Evolutionary Methods for Game Agent Optimisation: Model-Based is Best
• [Publication] Rinascimento: Optimising Statistical Forward Planning Agents for Playing Splendor
• [Publication] Game AI Hyperparameter Tuning in Rinascimento
• [Publication] Self-adaptive MCTS for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] The N-Tuple Bandit Evolutionary Algorithm for Game Agent Optimisation
• [Publication] Efficient Noisy Optimisation with the Multi-Sample and Sliding Window Compact Genetic Algorithms

pac-man

• [Publication] Pac-Man Conquers Academia: Two Decades of Research Using a Classic Arcade Game

panel

• 2017-11-06 Mon. [Panel Session] Meet the games industry

phd

• 2022-11-02 Wed. [Call for Applications] EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) 2023
• 2021-11-08 Mon. [Call for Applications] EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) 2021
• 2021-05-05 Wed. [Call for Applications] EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) 2021
• 2020-11-24 Tue. [Call for Applications] EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) 2021
• 2018-11-27 Tue. [Call for Applications] EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) 2019
• 2018-11-27 Tue. [Call for Applications] 2018 Fully-funded PhD studentships in Game AI
• 2017-11-27 Mon. [Call for Applications] EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI) 2018

planet-wars

• [Publication] Game AI Research with Fast Planet Wars Variants

planning

• 2021-09-03 Fri. [Seminar] 'Planning and learning' by Piotr Miłoś

platformer-games

• [Publication] PlayMapper: Illuminating Design Spaces of Platform Games
• [Publication] Evolving Mario Levels in the Latent Space of a Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network

play-styles

• [Publication] Generating Diverse and Competitive Play-Styles for Strategy Games

player-experience

• [Publication] Studying General Agents in Video Games from the Perspective of Player Experience
• [Publication] Intrinsic Motivation in Computational Creativity Applied to Videogames
• 2019-06-25 Tue. [Seminar] 'Defining and measuring challenge as player experience in video games' by Alena Denisova
• [Publication] Modelling Player Preferences in AR Mobile Games
• [Publication] Modeling Player Experience with the N-Tuple Bandit Evolutionary Algorithm

player-preference-modelling

• [Publication] Modelling Player Preferences in AR Mobile Games

polytopia

• [Publication] Tribes: A New Turn-Based Strategy Game for AI
• [Publication] MCTS Pruning in Turn-Based Strategy Games

pommerman

• [Publication] Abstract Forward Models
• [Publication] Analysis of Statistical Forward Planning Methods in Pommerman

portfolio

• [Publication] Generating Diverse and Competitive Play-Styles for Strategy Games
• [Publication] Portfolio Search and Optimization for General Strategy Game-Playing

preference-learning

• [Publication] Modelling Player Preferences in AR Mobile Games

procedural-content-generation

• [Publication] The Road Less Travelled: Trying And Failing To Generate Walking Simulators
• [Publication] Interactive evolution and exploration within latent level-design space of generative adversarial networks
• [Publication] Procedural Content Generation for Minecraft
• [Publication] Tabletop Roleplaying Games as Procedural Content Generators
• [Publication] Software Engineering For Automated Game Design
• [Publication] Procedural Generation and Information Games
• [Publication] Generative Forensics: Procedural Generation and Information Games
• [Publication] PlayMapper: Illuminating Design Spaces of Platform Games
• [Publication] Tile Pattern KL-Divergence for Analysing and Evolving Game Levels
• [Publication] Optimising Level Generators for General Video Game AI
• [Publication] General Analytical Techniques For Parameter-Based Procedural Content Generators

procedural-generation

• [Publication] Danesh: Interactive Tools For Understanding Procedural Content Generators

psyarxiv

• [Publication] The hidden intricacy of loot box design: A granular description of random monetized reward features

pubs-2017

• [Publication] Pac-Man Conquers Academia: Two Decades of Research Using a Classic Arcade Game
• [Publication] Efficient Noisy Optimisation with the Multi-Sample and Sliding Window Compact Genetic Algorithms

pubs-2018

• [Publication] Evolving Mario Levels in the Latent Space of a Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network
• [Publication] Gameplay Evaluation Measures
• [Publication] Deep Reinforcement Learning for General Video Game AI
• [Publication] A General Language for Matching Tile Games
• [Publication] Self-adaptive MCTS for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] The Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in MalmO (MARLO) Competition
• [Publication] Evolving behaviour tree structures using grammatical evolution
• [Publication] Studying Believability Assessment in Racing Games
• [Publication] The N-Tuple Bandit Evolutionary Algorithm for Game Agent Optimisation
• [Publication] Game AI Research with Fast Planet Wars Variants
• [Publication] Modeling Player Experience with the N-Tuple Bandit Evolutionary Algorithm
• [Publication] Using a Team of General AI Algorithms to Assist Game Design and Testing
• [Publication] General Win Prediction from Agent Experience
• [Publication] VERTIGO: Visualisation of Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms in GVGAI
• [Publication] The 2016 Two-Player GVGAI Competition
• [Publication] Shallow decision-making analysis in General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Toward General Mathematical Game Playing Agents
• [Publication] Game Search Space Design and Representation

pubs-2019

• [Publication] PlayMapper: Illuminating Design Spaces of Platform Games
• [Publication] Modelling Player Preferences in AR Mobile Games
• [Publication] Mek: Mechanics Prototyping Tool for 2D Tile-Based Turn-Based Deterministic Games
• [Publication] Extracting learning curves from puzzle games
• [Publication] Camera Obscurer: Generative Art for Design Inspiration
• [Publication] The Games Fusion Project: Competencies for Game Design
• [Publication] Analysis of Statistical Forward Planning Methods in Pommerman
• [Publication] General Video Game AI: a Multi-Track Framework for Evaluating Agents Games and Content Generation Algorithms
• [Publication] Exploring User Motor Behaviour in Bimanual Interactive Video Games
• [Publication] The importance of applying computational creativity to scientific and mathematical domains
• [Publication] Evolving Game State Evaluation Functions for a Hybrid Planning Approach
• [Publication] Towards Liveness in Game Development
• [Publication] Tile Pattern KL-Divergence for Analysing and Evolving Game Levels
• [Publication] A Local Approach to Forward Model Learning: Results on the Game of Life Game
• [Publication] Efficient Evolutionary Methods for Game Agent Optimisation: Model-Based is Best
• [Publication] Teaching on a Budget in Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
• [Publication] General Video Game Artificial Intelligence
• [Publication] NeurIPS 2019 Competition: The MineRL Competition on Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning using Human Priors
• [Publication] Project Thyia: A Forever Gameplayer
• [Publication] Tackling Sparse Rewards in Real-Time Games with Statistical Forward Planning Methods
• [Publication] 'Did You Hear That?' Learning to Play Video Games from Audio Cues
• [Publication] Optimising Level Generators for General Video Game AI
• [Publication] Learning Local Forward Models on Unforgiving Games
• [Publication] Hyperstate Space Graphs for Automated Game Analysis
• [Publication] General Analytical Techniques For Parameter-Based Procedural Content Generators
• [Publication] Framing In Computational Creativity-A Survey And Taxonomy
• [Publication] The HR3 System for Automated Code Generation in Creative Settings
• [Publication] Rinascimento: Optimising Statistical Forward Planning Agents for Playing Splendor
• [Publication] Game AI Hyperparameter Tuning in Rinascimento
• [Publication] Ensemble Decision Systems for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] A survey of statistical machine learning elements in genetic programming

pubs-2020

• [Publication] Controlling Self-organization in Generative Creative Systems
• [Publication] Practical Game Design Tool: State Explorer
• [Publication] AI for Accessibility in Games
• [Publication] Enhanced Rolling Horizon Evolution Algorithm with Opponent Model Learning
• [Publication] Interactive evolution and exploration within latent level-design space of generative adversarial networks
• [Publication] Procedural Content Generation for Minecraft
• [Publication] Casual Creators in the Wild: A Typology of Commercial Generative Creativity Support Tools
• [Publication] Tribes: A New Turn-Based Strategy Game for AI
• [Publication] Rolling Horizon NEAT for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] The Design Of Stratega: A General Strategy Games Framework
• [Publication] Abstract Forward Models
• [Publication] Modulation of viability signals for self-regulatory control
• [Publication] Bootstrapped model learning and error correction for planning with uncertainty in model-based RL
• [Publication] Efficient Heuristic Policy Optimisation for a Challenging Strategic Card Game
• [Publication] Cross-Platform Games in Kotlin
• [Publication] Explainable Computational Creativity
• [Publication] Student-Initiated Action Advising via Advice Novelty
• [Publication] MCTS Pruning in Turn-Based Strategy Games
• [Publication] How Players Learn Team-versus-Team Esports: First Results from A Grounded Theory Study
• [Publication] Metagame Autobalancing for Competitive Multiplayer Games
• [Publication] Tabletop Roleplaying Games as Procedural Content Generators
• [Publication] Studying General Agents in Video Games from the Perspective of Player Experience
• [Publication] Intrinsic Motivation in Computational Creativity Applied to Videogames
• [Publication] Weighting NTBEA for Game AI Optimisation
• [Publication] Does it matter how well I know what you’re thinking? Opponent Modelling in an RTS game
• [Publication] AI and Wargaming
• [Publication] Design and Implemenation of TAG: A Tabletop Games Framework
• [Publication] TAG: A Tabletop Games Framework
• [Publication] Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Self-Adaptive Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] STRATEGA: A General Strategy Games Framework
• [Publication] Local Forward Model Learning for GVGAI Games
• [Publication] Software Engineering For Automated Game Design
• [Publication] Procedural Generation and Information Games
• [Publication] Generative Forensics: Procedural Generation and Information Games
• [Publication] On the Machine Condition and its Creative Expression
• [Publication] Evolving Neural Style Transfer Blends
• [Publication] Creativity Theatre for Demonstrable Computational Creativity
• [Publication] Adapting and Enhancing Evolutionary Art for Casual Creation
• [Publication] Rinascimento: using event-value functions for playing Splendor
• [Publication] Bridging Generative Deep Learning and Computational Creativity
• [Publication] Neural Game Engine: Accurate learning of generalizable forward models from pixels
• [Publication] The hidden intricacy of loot box design: A granular description of random monetized reward features
• [Publication] Evaluating Generalization in General Video Game Playing

pubs-2021

• [Publication] TAG: Terraforming Mars
• [Publication] Generating Diverse and Competitive Play-Styles for Strategy Games
• [Publication] Learning on a Budget via Teacher Imitation
• [Publication] Action Advising with Advice Imitation in Deep Reinforcement Learning
• [Publication] Gym-μRTS: Toward Affordable Full Game Real-time Strategy Games Research with Deep Reinforcement Learning
• [Publication] Expressivity of Parameterized and Data-driven Representations in Quality Diversity Search
• [Publication] Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Portfolio Search and Optimization for General Strategy Game-Playing
• [Publication] The Social Responsibility of Game AI
• [Publication] The Road Less Travelled: Trying And Failing To Generate Walking Simulators
• [Publication] Danesh: Interactive Tools For Understanding Procedural Content Generators
• [Publication] Rinascimento: searching the behaviour space of Splendor
• [Publication] Griddly: A platform for AI research in games
• [Publication] Generalising Discrete Action Spaces with Conditional Action Trees

puzzle-games

• [Publication] Extracting learning curves from puzzle games

qmul

• 2020-11-06 Fri. GAIG @ QMUL EECS Research Week 2020

quality-diversity

• [Publication] Expressivity of Parameterized and Data-driven Representations in Quality Diversity Search

racing-games

• [Publication] Studying Believability Assessment in Racing Games

random

• 2017-10-03 Tue. Hello World!

rehabilitation

• [Publication] Exploring User Motor Behaviour in Bimanual Interactive Video Games

reinforcement-learning

• 2021-11-05 Fri. [Seminar] 'Bayesian reinforcement learning' by Christos Dimitrakakis
• [Publication] Learning on a Budget via Teacher Imitation
• [Publication] Action Advising with Advice Imitation in Deep Reinforcement Learning
• [Publication] Gym-μRTS: Toward Affordable Full Game Real-time Strategy Games Research with Deep Reinforcement Learning
• [Publication] Griddly: A platform for AI research in games
• 2021-06-02 Wed. [Seminar] 'The NetHack Learning Environment' by Tim Rocktäschel
• 2020-09-09 Wed. [Seminar] 'Factored Value Functions for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning' by Shimon Whiteson
• [Publication] Modulation of viability signals for self-regulatory control
• [Publication] Bootstrapped model learning and error correction for planning with uncertainty in model-based RL
• [Publication] Student-Initiated Action Advising via Advice Novelty
• [Publication] Metagame Autobalancing for Competitive Multiplayer Games
• [Publication] Neural Game Engine: Accurate learning of generalizable forward models from pixels
• 2020-03-05 Thu. [Seminar] 'Challenges of deep reinforcement learning, and the example of AlphaStar' by Tom Schaul
• [Publication] Teaching on a Budget in Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
• [Publication] NeurIPS 2019 Competition: The MineRL Competition on Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning using Human Priors
• [Publication] 'Did You Hear That?' Learning to Play Video Games from Audio Cues
• 2018-12-05 Wed. [Seminar] 'Advancing Video Game AI With Intrinsically Motivated Reinforcement Learning' by Christian Guckelsberger
• [Publication] Deep Reinforcement Learning for General Video Game AI
• [Publication] The Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in MalmO (MARLO) Competition
• 2018-03-08 Thu. [Seminar] 'Combining Evolution and Learning' by Chrisantha Fernando (Google DeepMind)
• 2017-10-03 Tue. [Seminar] 'Computer Hanabi: Playing Near-Optimally or Learning by Reinforcement ?' by Dr. Bruno Bouzy

reinforement-learning

• [Publication] Generalising Discrete Action Spaces with Conditional Action Trees

representation

• [Publication] Game Search Space Design and Representation

rhea

• [Publication] TAG: Terraforming Mars
• [Publication] Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Enhanced Rolling Horizon Evolution Algorithm with Opponent Model Learning
• [Publication] Tribes: A New Turn-Based Strategy Game for AI
• [Publication] Rolling Horizon NEAT for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] The Design Of Stratega: A General Strategy Games Framework
• [Publication] Abstract Forward Models
• [Publication] Bootstrapped model learning and error correction for planning with uncertainty in model-based RL
• [Publication] MCTS Pruning in Turn-Based Strategy Games
• [Publication] Design and Implemenation of TAG: A Tabletop Games Framework
• [Publication] TAG: A Tabletop Games Framework
• [Publication] Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Self-Adaptive Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] STRATEGA: A General Strategy Games Framework
• [Publication] Analysis of Statistical Forward Planning Methods in Pommerman
• [Publication] Efficient Evolutionary Methods for Game Agent Optimisation: Model-Based is Best
• [Publication] Project Thyia: A Forever Gameplayer
• [Publication] Tackling Sparse Rewards in Real-Time Games with Statistical Forward Planning Methods
• [Publication] General Win Prediction from Agent Experience
• [Publication] The 2016 Two-Player GVGAI Competition

search-space

• [Publication] Game Search Space Design and Representation

self-play

• 2020-09-01 Tue. [Seminar] 'Self-Play and Zero-Shot (Human-AI) Coordination (in Hanabi)' by Jakob Foerster

seminar

• 2024-01-31 Wed. [Seminar] 'Can ML help Game Development' by Steve Gaffney and Mark Craig
• 2023-07-10 Mon. [Seminar] 'Towards generative models of human behaviour' by Tim Pearce
• 2023-06-28 Wed. [Seminar] 'Playing with Neuroscience' by Paolo Burelli
• 2023-06-15 Thu. [Seminar] 'Analyzing State Spaces of Atari Games' by Mark Nelson
• 2023-02-23 Thu. [Seminar] 'Investigating optimum game difficulty using AI' by Joe Cutting
• 2022-11-10 Thu. [Seminar] 'New Frontiers in Procedural Content Generation' by Antonios Liapis
• 2022-10-26 Wed. [Seminar] 'Data Science with Ludii' by Matthew Stephenson
• 2022-10-06 Thu. [Seminar] 'Epistemic Neural Networks' by Vikranth Dwaracherla
• 2022-09-20 Tue. [Seminar] 'Understanding and measuring perceived challenge in video games' by Alena Denisova
• 2021-11-18 Thu. [Seminar] 'Sublime Cognition and Strange Tools' by Matthew De Abaitua
• 2021-11-05 Fri. [Seminar] 'Bayesian reinforcement learning' by Christos Dimitrakakis
• 2021-09-28 Tue. [Seminar] 'Music Informatics: Measuring and Modelling Music' by Simon Dixon
• 2021-09-03 Fri. [Seminar] 'Planning and learning' by Piotr Miłoś
• 2021-06-15 Tue. [Seminar] 'The AI and Games Co-Revolution' by Georgios Yannakakis
• 2021-06-02 Wed. [Seminar] 'The NetHack Learning Environment' by Tim Rocktäschel
• 2020-09-10 Thu. [Seminar] 'Towards Adaptive Game-playing Agents' by Niels Justesen
• 2020-09-09 Wed. [Seminar] 'Factored Value Functions for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning' by Shimon Whiteson
• 2020-09-01 Tue. [Seminar] 'Self-Play and Zero-Shot (Human-AI) Coordination (in Hanabi)' by Jakob Foerster
• 2020-08-13 Thu. [Seminar] 'Squeezer: a Juice prototyping tool for Unity' by Mads Johansen
• 2020-08-05 Wed. [Seminar] 'General Board Geometry' by Cameron Browne
• 2020-03-05 Thu. [Seminar] 'Challenges of deep reinforcement learning, and the example of AlphaStar' by Tom Schaul
• 2020-03-02 Mon. [Seminar] 'Grounded Language Learning in Virtual Environments' by Stephen Clark
• 2019-06-25 Tue. [Seminar] 'Defining and measuring challenge as player experience in video games' by Alena Denisova
• 2019-05-20 Mon. [Seminar] 'AlphaGo in Chemistry – Solving Real-World Problems by Means of Game AI Methods' by Mike Preuss
• 2019-04-30 Tue. [Seminar] 'Evolutionary MCTS for Game AI and Beyond' by Hendrik Baier
• 2019-04-02 Tue. [Seminar] 'Compressing Space, Warping Perception And Projecting Flowers Onto Cups Of Tea' by Dr Micheal Cook
• 2019-03-26 Tue. [Seminar] 'TextWorld' by Marc-Alexandre Côté
• 2019-03-26 Tue. [Seminar] 'Building AI Dialogue Tools for Non-Technical Authors' by Emily Short
• 2019-02-15 Fri. [Seminar] 'Solving 10×10 Hex' by Ryan Hayward
• 2019-02-12 Tue. [Seminar] 'Generalisation of Simulation-Based Search for Autonomous Gameplaying' by Alexander Dockhorn
• 2019-01-31 Thu. [Seminar] 'Agents with internal models' by Theophane Weber
• 2018-12-05 Wed. [Seminar] 'Advancing Video Game AI With Intrinsically Motivated Reinforcement Learning' by Christian Guckelsberger
• 2018-11-26 Mon. [Seminar] 'The Blurring of Video Games and Gambling: Daily Fantasy, Esports, Live Streaming, and Loot Boxes' by Dr Mark R. Johnson
• 2018-03-14 Wed. [Seminar] 'Perfect, Immortal Machines: The Future Of Automated Game Design' by Dr Micheal Cook
• 2018-03-08 Thu. [Seminar] 'Combining Evolution and Learning' by Chrisantha Fernando (Google DeepMind)
• 2018-01-23 Tue. [Seminar] 'Computational Creativity and Videogame Design' by Prof. Simon Colton
• 2017-11-06 Mon. [Seminar] 'Bridge: a new challenge for AI?' by Dr. Véronique Ventos
• 2017-10-03 Tue. [Seminar] 'Computer Hanabi: Playing Near-Optimally or Learning by Reinforcement ?' by Dr. Bruno Bouzy

social-responsibility

• [Publication] The Social Responsibility of Game AI

sparse-rewards

• [Publication] Tackling Sparse Rewards in Real-Time Games with Statistical Forward Planning Methods

splendor

• [Publication] Rinascimento: searching the behaviour space of Splendor
• [Publication] Rinascimento: using event-value functions for playing Splendor
• [Publication] Rinascimento: Optimising Statistical Forward Planning Agents for Playing Splendor
• [Publication] Game AI Hyperparameter Tuning in Rinascimento

ssci

• [Publication] Efficient Noisy Optimisation with the Multi-Sample and Sliding Window Compact Genetic Algorithms

story-telling

• 2019-03-26 Tue. [Seminar] 'Building AI Dialogue Tools for Non-Technical Authors' by Emily Short

strategy

• 2020-09-10 Thu. [Seminar] 'Towards Adaptive Game-playing Agents' by Niels Justesen

strategy-games

• [Publication] Generating Diverse and Competitive Play-Styles for Strategy Games
• [Publication] Gym-μRTS: Toward Affordable Full Game Real-time Strategy Games Research with Deep Reinforcement Learning
• [Publication] Portfolio Search and Optimization for General Strategy Game-Playing
• [Publication] Griddly: A platform for AI research in games
• [Publication] Generalising Discrete Action Spaces with Conditional Action Trees
• [Publication] The Design Of Stratega: A General Strategy Games Framework
• [Publication] MCTS Pruning in Turn-Based Strategy Games
• [Publication] Does it matter how well I know what you’re thinking? Opponent Modelling in an RTS game
• [Publication] STRATEGA: A General Strategy Games Framework
• [Publication] Evolving Game State Evaluation Functions for a Hybrid Planning Approach
• [Publication] Game AI Research with Fast Planet Wars Variants

style-transfer

• [Publication] Evolving Neural Style Transfer Blends

tabletop-games

• [Publication] TAG: Terraforming Mars
• [Publication] Tabletop Roleplaying Games as Procedural Content Generators
• [Publication] Design and Implemenation of TAG: A Tabletop Games Framework
• [Publication] TAG: A Tabletop Games Framework

terraforming-mars

• [Publication] TAG: Terraforming Mars

text-game

• 2019-03-26 Tue. [Seminar] 'TextWorld' by Marc-Alexandre Côté

thesis

• [Publication] Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
• [Publication] Intrinsic Motivation in Computational Creativity Applied to Videogames

tile-matching

• [Publication] A General Language for Matching Tile Games

tools

• 2020-08-13 Thu. [Seminar] 'Squeezer: a Juice prototyping tool for Unity' by Mads Johansen
• [Publication] Practical Game Design Tool: State Explorer
• [Publication] Casual Creators in the Wild: A Typology of Commercial Generative Creativity Support Tools
• [Publication] Mek: Mechanics Prototyping Tool for 2D Tile-Based Turn-Based Deterministic Games

tree-search

• 2021-11-05 Fri. [Seminar] 'Bayesian reinforcement learning' by Christos Dimitrakakis

tribes

• [Publication] Generating Diverse and Competitive Play-Styles for Strategy Games
• [Publication] Tribes: A New Turn-Based Strategy Game for AI
• [Publication] MCTS Pruning in Turn-Based Strategy Games

tutorial

• 2018-02-19 Mon. General Video Game AI tutorial at QMUL GradFest 2018

two-player

• [Publication] The 2016 Two-Player GVGAI Competition

unity

• 2020-08-13 Thu. [Seminar] 'Squeezer: a Juice prototyping tool for Unity' by Mads Johansen

virtual-environments

• 2020-03-02 Mon. [Seminar] 'Grounded Language Learning in Virtual Environments' by Stephen Clark

visualisation

• [Publication] Practical Game Design Tool: State Explorer
• [Publication] Mek: Mechanics Prototyping Tool for 2D Tile-Based Turn-Based Deterministic Games
• [Publication] VERTIGO: Visualisation of Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms in GVGAI

visuals

• 2020-08-13 Thu. [Seminar] 'Squeezer: a Juice prototyping tool for Unity' by Mads Johansen

walking-simulator

• [Publication] The Road Less Travelled: Trying And Failing To Generate Walking Simulators

war-games

• [Publication] AI and Wargaming

win-prediction

• [Publication] General Win Prediction from Agent Experience