Had a fantastic opportunity to join CBC News Radio’s "Alberta at Noon" with host Kathleen Petty. We explored the future of artificial intelligence and dug into the questions and concerns many Albertans have about how AI is affecting different parts of our lives. Full show: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

The IEEE Conference on Games (CoG) 2026 CfP is out! Will be in Madrid, Spain, 1-4 September 2026 Full paper deadline: 17 March 2026

#AIIDE25 wrapped! Thanks to everyone who made this year’s @aiide.bsky.social such a success. We’ll be back soon with announcements for ’26’s location and call, plus the ‘25 recordings. But for now I’m going to turn off my brain for 48 hours.

And now, closing off the conference, we have the closing remarks! This was the most attended in-person AIIDE since 2008, with 17* papers and 21 posters!

And with the end of the last paper session, we go to the StarCraft competition by Dave Churchill (photo missing, apologies) and the Workshop Report from Richard Zhao! @richardzhao.bsky.social Some interesting stats here, glad to see EXAG is thriving!

So good to have Jonathan Schaeffer back for the final keynote on AI in games #AIIDE25

Cosmic Express on the stage at AIIDE 2025! @draknek.bsky.social

Matt McConnell gives his presentation on the Adaptive Problem Solving Game (with genetic algorithm) at the AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment! #AIIDE25 Here's his published paper: doi.org/10.1609/aiid... Here's a video demo: m.youtube.com/watch?v=qJOb...

Just great to hear from @luked.bsky.social on AI from Take-Two at #AIIDE25

My student Mahdi (with co-author Parsa) gives his presentation on creating more stable Angry Birds game levels at the AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment #AIIDE25 Here's the published paper: doi.org/10.1609/aiid...

It is so nice to see these papers and authors been honoured with the test of time. Well deserved indeed! #AIIDE25

Acceptance rates at #AIIDE25 . Looks great this year!

Quality is going up (subjective but I totally agree!) #AIIDE25

Excited to start the first day of the main conference #AIIDE25 !

And we're back with INT! INT is just a single poster session this time, but I'm glad it's sticking around.

Very interesting history of the #AIIDE EXAG workshop by Mike Cook who organized the first EXAG.

Open question at the @exag.bsky.social speculative game jam at #AIIDE25 : can you implement generative AI in a game as a game mechanic and not make it into a chatbot? Can you generate data ethically and consensually?

Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues in Edmonton this week for AIIDE! I'll be trying my hand at live tweeting the paper sessions at both the main conference and EXAG/INT, which I'll try to keep in this big reply thread (starting off tomorrow). @aiide.bsky.social @exag.bsky.social

Plus this initiative by Richard Zhao @richardzhao.bsky.social to track where all our roughly 120 attendees originate from!

Excited to be welcoming everyone to #AIIDE25 Here at the University of Alberta!

Arrived in Edmonton in time for the big conference of the year #AIIDE25 ! sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

AIIDE '25 proceedings are up! And the conference starts in two days. 🧳✈️

If you’re interested in attending only the #AIIDE25 Welcome Event or Poster/Demo session, you can use the separate registration links below: Welcome Event separate registration: aaaiforms.wufoo.com/forms/aiide2... Poster/Demo Session separate registration: aaaiforms.wufoo.com/forms/aiide2...

AIIDE´25 features a keynote by Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer, 50 year veteran in the field who will share valuable lessons from his career.

We are happy to welcome Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social as a keynote speaker for AIIDE 2025. Her longtime personal mission is to bring small playful forms of AI to poets, artists, kids and weirdos.

My students Mahdi Farrokhimaleki and Parsa Rahmati have a paper published at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment #AIIDE25 : From Unstable to Playable: Stabilizing Angry Birds Levels via Object Segmentation. Preprint available: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

My student Matthew McConnell published his current work at the AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment #AIIDE25 : From Frustration to Fun: An Adaptive Problem-Solving Puzzle Game Powered by Genetic Algorithm Preprint available: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

AIIDE 2025 is fast approaching and it’s time to start announcing this year’s keynote speakers! First up are Dr. Luke Dicken and Nadine Perez from Take-Two Interactive. In this session the Take-Two AI team will discuss how to put theory into practice.

Congratulations to my Ph.D. student Matthew McConnell at #UCalgary, turning internship into a space exploration opportunity www.ucalgary.ca/news/ucalgar... and utilizing his game development skills!

Early bird registration for AIIDE-25 is available until October 10th! sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

Companies have an obligation to address users' issues with humans and not AI-automated responses - See my comments in the article.

#AIIDE25 main track decisions are out 🙌Huge thanks to our authors and reviewers, this year’s proceedings look incredible! Congratulations to those with accepted works, and a reminder that early registration is open until October 10th. 🔗 sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

as well as a huge index of ~2500 researchers and their affiliations (alas, mostly manually maintained... when I started this I thought the community was smaller and that this would be more manageable)

🚨#AIIDE25 full paper deadline extended! Due to requests from authors, we have extended the deadline for full paper submission to June 27, 2025! 🔗 More information: sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

Planning to submit to #AIIDE25? Make sure to get your abstract in soon! ⏰The abstract deadline is this Saturday, June 14! 📅 Full paper submission deadline: June 21 🔍 Details here: sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

✨ AIIDE 2025 ✨ added to the event calendar! 🎉 Type ⚙️: Onsite B2B #AI Conference Date 🗓️: NOV 10-14, 2025 Location 🏙️: Edmonton, Canada View hundreds of other #GameIndustry events: www.eventsforgamers.com/event/the-21... #AIIDE #ArtificialIntelligence #GameDev #GamingConference

After literal years of being down due to security issues, my blog is now back up, including my one post on "How to Write an AIIDE Paper" www.guzdial.com/blog/how-to-...

The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment #AIIDE25 is accepting submissions! We welcome any work related to AI and entertainment, games, interactive fictions, intelligent tutoring systems, etc. Join us in Edmonton! sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/... #GameDev

We're excited to announce that #AIIDE25 will once again host two long-standing workshops! EXAG: Workshop on Experimental AI in Games. Details: www.exag.org INT: Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies. Details: sites.google.com/view/int2025/

Voted! Good luck to Canada.

Attending #FDG2025 remotely - always interesting to watch people talk about research in games! #FDG

The workshop chair this year is @richardzhao.bsky.social. If you are interested in organizing any of the existing AIIDE workshops, or if you want to try something new, please drop him an email! If there are interests from multiple people, he would be able to connect you too!

Want to host a workshop related to AI and digital entertainment? The AIIDE conference is accepting workshop proposals. #AcademicSky

👾Call for Papers for #AIIDE25 is live! 👾 Join us in Edmonton, Canada where we will be celebrating over 20 years of AIIDE with a special theme: Strong Foundations! We encourage the submission of work that builds on prior work from AIIDE proceedings. 🔍Info in replies!

good convo on academic vs industry innovation in games. one misconception i’m seeing: some say industry “moves too fast” for academia, but ime this motion rarely takes it far; most “movement” = competitors duplicating efforts, frequent dissolution & reformation of teams, endless ahistorical churn

We are very pleased to announce that AIIDE'25 will be back at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from November 10-14! Paper deadline June 21 AOE. Join us with your work at the intersection of AI and Digital Entertainment! sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

Anger. Betrayal. Resolve. I think that about sums up the mood in Canada this morning. Even when Trump turns his attention to the next shiny thing and the tariffs are removed, trust will be irrevocably broken. Whatever special bond that existed b/w the US and Canada is no more.

"Incoming transmission!" 📡 Classic Command and Conquer games are now open source—ready for modding, preservation, and innovation! Read more: ea.com/games/comman... Dive into the code: github.com/electronicarts