Center for Digital Play

Research output

Research output per year 2003 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2023

• 135 Article in proceedings
• 66 Book chapter
• 64 Journal article
• 41 Conference abstract for conference
• 88 More
  • 19 Paper
  • 12 Other contribution
  • 9 Conference article
  • 7 Editorial
  • 6 Ph.D. thesis
  • 5 Book
  • 4 Anthology
  • 4 Conference abstract in proceedings
  • 3 Poster
  • 3 Interactive production
  • 2 Encyclopedia chapter
  • 2 Comment/debate
  • 2 2D/3D (psysical products)
  • 2 Net publication - Internet publication
  • 2 Working paper
  • 1 Report
  • 1 Contribution to newspaper - Comment/debate
  • 1 Contribution to newspaper - Feature article
  • 1 Review
  • 1 Computer programme
  • 1 Patent

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2015

  General Video Game Evaluation Using Relative Algorithm Performance Profiles

  Nielsen, T., Barros, G., Togelius, J. & Nelson, M., 2015, Applications of Evolutionary Computation: 18th European Conference, EvoApplications 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 8-10, 2015, Proceedings. Springer Publishing Company, p. 369-380 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 9028).

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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  • Function evaluation 100%
  • Controllers 46%

• Interactive evolution of levels for a competitive multiplayer FPS

  Olsted, P. T., Ma, B. & Risi, S., 1 May 2015, Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2015 IEEE Congress on. IEEE, p. 1527-1534 8 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

  • Testing 100%

• Interactively Evolving Compositional Sound Synthesis Networks

  Jónsson, B. Þ., Hoover, A. K. & Risi, S., 2015, Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation: GECCO '15. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, p. 321-328 8 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Investigating MCTS Modifications in General Video Game Playing

  Frydenberg, F., Andersen, K., Risi, S. & Togelius, J., 2015, Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games. IEEE Computer Society Press, p. 107-113

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

  • Controllers 100%
  • Experiments 33%

• Loops and Metagames: Understanding Game Design Structures

  Sicart, M. A., 2015, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2015), June 22-25, 2015, Pacific Grove, CA, USA..

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Terminology 100%

• Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Simulated Car Racing

  Fischer, J., Falsted, N., Vielwerth, M., Togelius, J. & Risi, S., 2015, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2015), June 22-25, 2015, Pacific Grove, CA, USA. Association for Computing Machinery, 5 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Controllers 100%

• Novelty-driven Particle Swarm Optimization

  Galvao, D., Lehman, J. A. & Urbano, P., 2015, Artificial Evolution: 12th International Conference, Evolution Artificielle, EA 2015, Lyon, France, October 26-28, 2015. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, p. 177-190 14 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 9554).

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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  • Particle swarm optimization (PSO) 100%
  • Genetic programming 30%
  • Evolutionary algorithms 12%

• Participatory Republics: Play and the Political

  Sicart, M. A., 2015, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2015), June 22-25, 2015, Pacific Grove, CA, USA.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  • political theory 100%
  • republic 84%

• SMUG: Scientific Music Generator

  Scirea, M., A B Barros, G., Togelius, J. & Shaker, N., Jun 2015, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Creativity June 2015. Utah State University Press, p. 204-211

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Markov chains 100%

• Soft-Body Muscles for Evolved Virtual Creatures: The Next Step on a Bio-Mimetic Path to Meaningful Morphological Complexity

  Lessin, D. & Risi, S., 2015, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) 2015. MIT Press, p. 604–611

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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  • Muscle 100%
  • Earth (planet) 89%

• The Word Game: The ontology of an undefinable object

  Aarseth, E. J. & Calleja, G., 2015, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2015). Society for the Advancement of the Science of Digital Games, 8 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Ontology 100%

• Towards generating arcade game rules with VGDL

  Nielsen, T., A B Barros, G., Togelius, J. & Nelson, M., 2015, 2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG). IEEE, p. 185 - 192 8 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

  • Evolutionary algorithms 100%
• 2014

  Adapting Morphology to Multiple Tasks in Evolved Virtual Creatures

  Lessin, D., Fussell, D. & Miikkulainen, R., 2014, Proceedings of The Fourteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 14) 2014. MIT Press, p. 247-254

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

  • Encapsulation 100%
  • Brain 73%

• A Prototype using Territories and an Affordance Tree for Social Simulation Gameplay

  Geishauser, T., Cheong, Y-G. & Nelson, M., 3 Apr 2014, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games: FDG 2014 Proceedings. Society for the Advancement of the Science of Digital Games, 2 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Automatically Categorizing Procedurally Generated Content for Collecting Games

  Risi, S., Lehman, J., D’Ambrosio, D. B. & Stanley, K. O., 2014, FDG 2014 Workshop Proceedings: Proceedings of Workshops Colocated with the 9th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, (Proceedings of the Workshop on Procedural Content Generation in Games (PCG) at the 9th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG-2014). ACM, New York, NY, USA).

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Challenges for Game Addiction as a Mental Health Diagnosis

  Nielsen, R. K., Aarseth, E. & Poulsen, A., 7 Apr 2014, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games: FDG 2014 Proceedings. 3 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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  • Health 100%
  • Computer games 63%
  • Psychiatry 23%
  • Pathology 19%
  • Trajectories 11%

• Characteristics of generatable games

  Togelius, J., Nelson, M. & Liapis, A., 2014, Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Procedural Content Generation in Games. Association for Computing Machinery, 6 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Evaluating Musical Foreshadowing of Videogame Narrative Experiences

  Scirea, M., Cheong, Y-G., Nelson, M. & Bae, B. C., 2014, Proceedings of the 9th Audio Mostly: A Conference on Interaction With Sound: AM '14. Association for Computing Machinery, 8 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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  • Experiments 100%

• Generative Agents for Player Decision Modeling in Games

  Holmgård, C., Liapis, A., Togelius, J. & Yannakakis, G., 2014, 9th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games. Society for the Advancement of Digital Games

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

  • Decision making 100%
  • Reinforcement 22%
  • Experiments 9%

• Guided Self-organization in Indirectly Encoded and Evolving Topographic Maps

  Risi, S. & Stanley, K. O., 2014, Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 713-720 8 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Linear levels through n-grams

  Dahlskog, S., Togelius, J. & Nelson, M., 2014, Proceedings of the 18th International Academic MindTrek Conference: MindTrek 2014. Association for Computing Machinery, 7 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Mood Expression in Real-Time Computer Generated Music using Pure Data

  Scirea, M., Nelson, M., Cheong, Y-G. & Bae, B. C., Aug 2014, Proceedings of the ICMPC-APSCOM 2014 Joint Conference. College of Music, Yonsei University, p. 263-267 5 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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  • Computer music 100%
  • Computer programming languages 62%

• Personas versus Clones for Player Decision Modeling

  Holmgård, C., Liapis, A., Togelius, J. & Yannakakis, G., 2014, Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2014: 13th International Conference, ICEC 2014, Sydney, Australia, October 1-3, 2014. Proceedings. p. 159-166 8 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Towards Understanding the Nonverbal Signatures of Engagement in Super Mario Bros

  Shaker, N. & Shaker, M., 2014, User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: 22nd International Conference, UMAP 2014, Aalborg, Denmark, July 7-11, 2014. Proceedings. Springer, Vol. 8538. p. 423-424 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Trading Control Intelligence for Physical Intelligence: Muscle Drives in Evolved Virtual Creatures

  Lessin, D., Fussell, D. & Miikkulainen, R., 12 Jul 2014, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2014: GECCO '14. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, p. 705-712

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

  • Muscle 100%
  • Brain 88%
  • Actuators 80%
  • Control systems 33%

• X-COM: UFO Defense vs. XCOM: Enemy Unknown: Using gameplay design patterns to understand game remakes

  Canossa, A., Björk, S. & Nelson, M., 2014, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. Society for the Advancement of Digital Games, 8 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
• 2013

  A Compiler for CPPNs: Transforming Phenotypic Descriptions Into Genotypic Representations

  Risi, S., 2013, 2013 AAAI Fall Symposium Series - How Should Intelligence be Abstracted in AI Research.. 7 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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  • Evolutionary algorithms 100%

• Adaptive Game Level Creation through Rank-based Interactive Evolution

  Liapis, A., Martínez, H. P., Togelius, J. & Yannakakis, G. N., 2013, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG). IEEE Computer Society Press, p. 1-8 8 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• A Lightweight Story-Comprehension Approach to Game Dialogue

  van Leeuwen, R. P., Cheong, Y-G. & Nelson, M. J., 2013, GAMNLP 12. Proceedings of the first Workshop on Games and NLP, JapTAL 2012. : In connection with the 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing. 7 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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  • Inference engines 100%
  • Knowledge based systems 86%
  • Semantics 53%

• Artificial Evolution for the Detection of Group Identities in Complex Artificial Societies

  Grappiolo, C., Togelius, J. & Yannakakis, G. N., 2013, 2013 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, Proceedings: ALife 2013. IEEE Press, p. 126-133 8 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

  • Reinforcement learning 100%
  • Evolutionary algorithms 91%

• Audioverdrive: Exploring bidirectional communication between music and gameplay

  Holtar, N. I., Nelson, M. J. & Togelius, J., 2013, Proceedings of the 2013 International Computer Music Conference. International Computer Music Association, 8 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Automatic Generation and Analysis of Physics-Based Puzzle Games

  Shaker, M., Shaker, N. & Togelius, J., 2013, Computational Intelligence in Games (CIG), 2013 . IEEE Computer Society Press

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Competitive coevolution in Ms. Pac-Man

  Borg Cardona, A., Togelius, J. & Nelson, M. J., 2013, Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2013 IEEE Congress on. IEEE Computer Society Press, p. 1403 - 1410

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Decision Making Styles as Deviation from Rational Action. A Super Mario Case Study.

  Holmgård, C., Togelius, J. & Yannakakis, G., 2013, Proceedings of the Ninth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2013). Palo Alto: AAAI Press, 7 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Designer Modeling for Personalized Game Content Creation Tools

  Liapis, A., Yannakakis, G. N. & Togelius, J., 2013, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINTH AAAI CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INTERACTIVE DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT (AIIDE-13): Workshop on Artificial Intelligence & Game Aesthetics. AAAI Press, p. 11-16 6 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

  • Computer aided design 100%
  • Computer simulation 65%

• Design metaphors for procedural content generation in games

  Khaled, R., Nelson, M. J. & Barr, P. J., 2013, Human Factors in Computing Systems. Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on . Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1509-1518 10 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Enhancements to Constrained Novelty Search: Two-Population Novelty Search for Generating Game Content

  Liapis, A., Yannakakis, G. N. & Togelius, J., 2013, GECCO '13 Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation conference. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 343-350 8 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

  • Genetic algorithms 100%
  • Set theory 90%

• Evolving Playable Content for Cut the Rope through a Simulation-Based Approach

  Shaker, M., Shaker, N. & Togelius, J., 2013, Proceedings of the Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2013): Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE).. AAAI Press, p. 72-78

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

  • Physics 100%
  • Testing 59%

• Filtering the W*

  Cermak-Sassenrath, D. & Watkins, C., 2013, Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition 2013. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, p. 380-381

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Makin' cake and the meaning in games

  Cermak-Sassenrath, D., 2013, Design and semantics of form and movement (DeSForM) 2013. p. 199-203

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Makin' f*¢&|# cake: The innocent, the vulgar, and the scary

  Cermak-Sassenrath, D., Gavin, J. & Martin, M., 2013, Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition 2013. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, p. 374-375

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Making cake, swearing, and the indefinite meaning of media

  Cermak-Sassenrath, D., Martin, M., Gavin, J. & Walker, C., 2013, Proceedings of The 9th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (IE 2013): Matters of Life and Death. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 36

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Media filter access

  Cermak-Sassenrath, D., Watkins, C. & Kenobi, B., 2013, Proceedings of The 9th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (IE 2013): Matters of Life and Death. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 35

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Open-Ended Behavioral Complexity for Evolved Virtual Creatures

  Lessin, D., Fussell, D. & Miikkulainen, R., 2013, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2013: GECCO '13. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 335-342

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

  • Artificial life 100%
  • Encapsulation 76%
  • Entertainment 73%
  • Evolutionary algorithms 61%

• Player Perspectives to Unexplained Agency-Related Incoherence

  Pirtola, M., Cheong, Y-G. & Nelson, M. J., 2013, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling. Springer, p. 156-167 12 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Refining Game Addiction Questionnairs: Evidence for a natural cut-off point?

  Nielsen, R. K., 17 May 2013, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2013). p. 437-438 2 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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  • Addiction 100%
  • Computer Games 23%
  • Questionnaire 8%

• Ribosomal robots: Evolved designs inspired by protein folding

  Risi, S., Cellucci, D. & Lipson, H., 2013, Proceeding of the fifteenth annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation conference: GECCO '13. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 263-270 8 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

• Ropossum: An Authoring Tool for Designing, Optimizing and Solving Cut the Rope Levels

  Shaker, M., Shaker, N. & Togelius, J., 2013, Proceedings of the Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment: AIIDE 2013 - AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment . AAAI Press, p. 215-216 2 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

  • Physics 100%
  • Demonstrations 47%
  • Engines 36%
  • Feedback 36%
  • Testing 29%

• Sentient Sketchbook: Computer-Assisted Game Level Authoring

  Liapis, A., Yannakakis, G. N. & Togelius, J., 2013, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games. Society for the Advancement of Digital Games, p. 213-220 8 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

  • Industry 100%

• Sentient World: Human-Assisted Procedural Cartography: An Experiment in Interactive Sketching and Iterative Refining

  Liapis, A., Yannakakis, G. N. & Togelius, J., 2013, Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design: Second International Conference, EvoMUSART 2013, Vienna, Austria, April 3-5, 2013, Proceedings. Springer, Vol. 7834. p. 180-191 12 p.

  Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review