Games

Toward Generating Dynamic Quest Narratives Using Player Behavior

foaad — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:15:51 +0000

Toward Generating Dynamic Quest Narratives Using Player Behavior

foaad Wed, 04/23/2025 - 02:15

Authorship

Sean Mendonca and Foaad Khosmood

Publication

AIIDE - Intelligent Narrative Technologies Workshop

Workshop

Location

Pomona, California

Tuesday, October 25, 2022 - 12:00

Tags

Games
AI

AIIDE - INT 2022

Abstract

Quests with compelling narratives are notoriously difficult to write and expensive to maintain, yet in most MMORPGs, quests must be churned out constantly to keep the players participating. Quests are often delivered in form of “instance” or parallel universes accessible only to a single player or a small party, and featuring micro-narratives that must necessarily be inconsequential to the world.

AIIDE_2022_Panoptyk_Mendonca.pdf

FDG 2024

foaad — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 01:03:57 +0000

FDG 2024

Event Date

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 - 12:00

foaad Sun, 03/31/2024 - 18:03

Location

Worcester, MA

Website

http://fdg2024.org/

Submission deadline

Thursday, November 30, 2023 - 12:00

ChatGPT Game Jam: Unleashing the power of Large Language Models for Game Jams

foaad — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 19:35:49 +0000

ChatGPT Game Jam: Unleashing the power of Large Language Models for Game Jams

foaad Wed, 09/06/2023 - 12:35

Authorship

April Grow and Foaad Khosmood

Publication

International Conference on Game Jams

Conference

Location

Online

Wednesday, August 30, 2023 - 12:00

Tags

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3610602.3610605

Abstract

Recently Large Language Models (LLMs) have captivated the imagination in many different fields. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, offered the first highly accessible LLM to the users and has seen phenomenal growth since its release in November 2022. While AI tools have always been part of game design and game development, now ChatGPT offers users perhaps for the first time, the ability to create a variety of novel games either entirely or partly by writing a text prompt.

Game Jams–History, Technology, and Organisation

foaad — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 08:52:42 +0000

Game Jams–History, Technology, and Organisation

foaad Sun, 02/19/2023 - 00:52

Authorship

Allan Fowler and Foaad Khosmood

Publication

Springer Nature

Book

Monday, January 30, 2023 - 12:00

Tags

Amazon.com

Springer

Abstract

What you are now reading is a unique initiative created by people who love game jams, study game jams and organise game jams. No other book like this exists. While the idea of a game jam and its predecessors can be traced back decades, the term itself is barely twenty years old, and formalised scholarship around it is not even ten. We are ecstatic to bring you the first comprehensive volume on the origins, development and contemporary practices of game jams. Within these pages, you’ll learn the game jam origins, how jams are made and where they are going.

Dynamic Procedural Music Generation from NPC Attributes

foaad — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 03:56:05 +0000

Dynamic Procedural Music Generation from NPC Attributes foaad Sun, 08/14/2022 - 20:56

Authorship

Megan Washburn and Foaad Khosmood

Publication

Foundations of Digital Games

Conference

Location

Malta

Wednesday, September 9, 2020 - 12:00

Tags

ACM DL

Abstract

Procedural Music Generation in Games (PMGG) can enrich the playing experience by providing both entertainment and communication to the player. We present a system that generates unique procedural thematic music for non-player characters (NPC) based on developer-defined attributes and game state. The system responds in real-time to the dynamic relationship between the player and target “boss” NPC. We create a multiplayer 2D adventure game using and evaluate the music generation system by means of user study.

Washburn_FDG20.pdf

Evolving unsupervised neural networks for Slither.io

foaad — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 02:05:02 +0000

Evolving unsupervised neural networks for Slither.io

foaad Sun, 08/14/2022 - 19:05

Authorship

Mitchell Miller, Megan Washburn and Foaad Khosmood

Publication

FDG 2019

Poster or Panel Discussion

Location

San Luis Obispo, California

Wednesday, August 28, 2019 - 12:00

Tags

Games
AI

ACM DL

Abstract

Slither. io is a massively multiplayer online game in which up to 500 players control worm-like avatars and consume food to grow with the goal of becoming the largest player while avoiding running into one another. The platform serves as a good testbed for developing AI controlled agents due to its accessibility, mechanical simplicity, and unpredictability. In this paper, we develop a Slither. io bot using neuroevolution of augmenting topologies (NEAT) and compare its performance to that of the best open source bot available online (a high-performing expert system bot).

Slither.io FDG 2019 Poster.pdf

Composition of basic heuristics for the game 2048

foaad — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 02:00:01 +0000

Composition of basic heuristics for the game 2048

foaad Sun, 08/14/2022 - 19:00

Authorship

Iris Kohler, Theresa Migler and Foaad Khosmood

Publication

FDG 2019

Poster or Panel Discussion

Location

San Luis Obispo, California

Monday, August 26, 2019 - 12:00

Tags

Games
AI

ACM DL

Abstract

2048 is a simple and intriguing sliding block puzzle game that has been studied for several years. Many complex solvers, often developed using neural nets are available and capable of achieving very high scores. We are, however, interested in using only basic heuristics, the kind that could be conceivably employed by human players without the aid of computation. A common way to implement a 2048 solver involves searching the game tree for the best moves, choosing a move and scoring the game board using some evaluation functions.

2048 FDG 2019 Poster.pdf

Panoptyk: information driven MMO engine

foaad — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 01:54:03 +0000

Panoptyk: information driven MMO engine

foaad Sun, 08/14/2022 - 18:54

Authorship

Mitchell Miller, Sean Mendonca, Nathan Philliber and Foaad Khosmood

Publication

Foundations of Digital Games

Poster or Panel Discussion

Location

San Luis Obispo, California

Monday, August 26, 2019 - 12:00

Tags

ACM DL

Abstract

Project Panoptyk is a game engine designed to run Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) games with information creation, sharing, and exchange as the central gameplay focus. This engine is a work in progress, intended to serve as a platform for simulating human/robot interaction, as well as automatic generation of game assets, quests, and real-estate. The project also aims to create an open platform allowing indie and research communities to experiment with MMO concepts.

FDG_2019 Panoptyk Poster.pdf

Two Decades of Game Jams

foaad — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 20:20:06 +0000

Two Decades of Game Jams foaad Sun, 08/14/2022 - 13:20

Authorship

Gorm Lai, Annakaisa Kultima, Foaad Khosmood, Johanna Pirker, Allan Fowler, Ilaria Vecchi, William Latham, and Frederic Fol Leymarie

Publication

International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons, and Game Creation Events

Conference

Sunday, August 1, 2021 - 12:00

Tags

ACM DL

Abstract

In less than a year’s time, March 2022 will mark the twentieth anniversary of the first documented game jam, the Indie Game Jam, which took place in Oakland, California in 2002. Initially, game jams were widely seen as frivolous activities. Since then, they have taken the world by storm. Game jams have not only become part of the day-to-day process of many game developers, but jams are also used for activist purposes, for learning and teaching, as part of the experience economy, for making commercial prototypes that gamers can vote on, and more.

two_decades_icgj21.pdf

Enhancing story generation with the semantic web

foaad — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 19:51:28 +0000

Enhancing story generation with the semantic web foaad Sun, 08/14/2022 - 12:51

Authorship

Erik LaBouve, Eric Miller, Foaad Khosmood

Publication

FDG 2019

Conference

Location

San Luis Obispo, California

Wednesday, August 28, 2019 - 12:00

Tags

ACM DL

Abstract

In story or character driven games, in-game stories are usually manually authored in advance. As the complexity of interactions in games increases, the quantity of hand-crafted text typically follows. Designing stories and composing content by hand is a laborious and time consuming process that if automated, would speed up game production and lower development costs. In this paper, we present a mixed initiative tool to help generalize and enhance context free grammars (CFGs) for story generation.

enhancing_story_fdg19.pdf