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Recaps from FDG 2010

By Sherol Chen | Published: July 2, 2010

About 2 weeks ago, at Asilomar in Pacific Grove, CA for Foundations of Digital Games Conference, professionals gathered to present academic efforts in “all areas of research and education involving games, game technologies, gameplay and game design. The goal of the conference is the advancement of the study of digital games, including new game technologies, capabilities, designs, […]

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Interactive Drama and Action: Can we have it all?

By Ben Weber | Published: June 10, 2010

‘Kasumi’s Stolen Memory’ is a DLC mission for Mass Effect 2 that adds a new perspective to gameplay in the Mass Effect series. While the DLC contains the formulaic loyalty mission for the new character, it also puts Commander Shepard in a new role in which the player interacts in a formal social setting. Shepard’s […]

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IEEE TCIAIG Special Issue on Procedural Content Generation

By Jim Whitehead | Published: June 9, 2010

Sparked by the strong interest in the Procedural Content Generation Workshop upcoming at FDG 2010, I have been working with Julian Togelius and Rafael Bidarra to create a special issue of the journal IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence in Games (IEEE TCIAIG). Deadline for submissions is November 1, with publication aimed for […]

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Content Selection vs. Content Generation

By Anne Sullivan | Published: June 5, 2010

Lately, some of us in the lab have been having a discussion on the difference between content selection and content generation. Where does one end and the other begin? At some level, procedural content generation uses content selection. So what’s the difference?

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Expressive Processing reviews: three perspectives

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: June 1, 2010

The first reviews of Expressive Processing have begun to appear, and the three I’ve seen come from three distinct perspectives: a game development veteran who has become a professor, an industry computer scientist with an AI background, and a public relations intern with a games-focused website. I think the collection of perspectives is interesting, but […]

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8 Button StarCraft

By Ben Weber | Published: May 26, 2010

John Davison recently claimed that games are “Too Big and Too Hard”. I have addressed this issue by reducing StarCraft to 8 buttons. My system provides the user with a GUI containing 8 buttons and lets the AI take care of the rest of the complexity associated with normally playing StarCraft. In the fully realized […]

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