Balancing the options available to players in a way that ensures rich variety and viability is a
vital factor for the success of any video game, and particularly competitive multiplayer games…

Video game analytics are widely adopted within academia and industrial development – yet,
the player’s perspective is rarely considered as a driving factor, even though vast …

With ICARUS, we introduce a framework for autonomous video game playing, testing, and
bug reporting. We report on the design rationale, the practical implementation, and its use in …

Due to a steady increase in popularity, player demands for (online) video game content are
growing to an extent in which consistency and novelty in challenges is hard to attain. …

Video game testing has become a major investment of time, labor, and expense in the game
industry. Particularly the balancing of in-game units, characters, and classes can cause long…

Balancing games and producing content that remains interesting and challenging is a main
cost factor in the design and maintenance of games. Dynamic difficulty adjustments (DDA) …

Advances in speech recognition, language processing and natural interaction have led to
an increased industrial and academic interest. While the robustness and usability of such …

Identifying explainable player strategies and decision patterns that give insights into player
behavior is one of the most difficult tasks for game analytics, yet yields great informative …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a frequently used term - and has seen decades of use - in the
video games industry. Yet, while academic AI research recently produced notable advances …

Today's videogames are often intertwined with profound religious narratives, content, characters,
and artifacts - but how do player communities understand the role of religion in games, …