#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.

For those who couldn't make it to Edmonton, Emily Halina is live-posting paper sessions!

The final keynote for AIIDE'25 is on Artificial Agency's ( @artificial-agency.bsky.social ) behaviour engine, presented by Chris Entwistle. A box lunch will be provided for this last-day lunch keynote 🍱

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.

🏆 Best Paper – 2024 Generalized Entropy and Solution Information for Measuring Puzzle Difficulty by Shen and Sturtevant Puzzle entropy uses information entropy with respect to player knowledge to measure the difficulty of a puzzle. The paper generalizes and refines this idea.

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.

Workshop registration for AIIDE 2025 has been reopened! Thanks everyone for the patience while we sorted out logistics. Register for the joint EXAG and INT workshop using the link below! 🔗https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/aiide2025/registration

🏆 Best Paper – 2023 There and Back Again: Extracting Formal Domains for Controllable Neurosymbolic Story Authoring by Kelly et al. Language models create fluent narratives, while planning-based story generators offer control. This paper explores how to combine the best of both!

🏆 Best Paper – 2022 Puck: A Slow and Personal Automated Game Designer by Michael Cook The author outlines new goals for automated game design focused on users and communities. The result is Puck, an automated game design system with an exhaustive approach to content generation.

The #AIIDE25 StarCraft AI competition submission deadline is fast approaching. Be sure to submit your work on time! ⏰ Submission deadline: October 19th 🔍 More details: www.cs.mun.ca/~dchurchill/...

🚨 Due to a high number of sign-ups for the joint EXAG-INT workshop, we’ve temporarily closed registration while we secure a larger venue. Stay tuned for updates!

🏆 Best Paper – 2021 MappyLand: Fast, Accurate Mapping for Console Games by Osborn et al. Game maps are useful for humans, game-playing agents, and content generation. Mappyland uses a variety of heuristics and algorithms to automatically generate accurate maps from example play.

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.

📢 One week left! Early bird registration rates are available until October 10th. Early registration is cheaper and helps us get things organized 👾 sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

🏆 Best Paper – 2020 “It’s Unwieldy and It Takes a Lot of Time” —Challenges and Opportunities for Creating Agents in Commercial Games by Jacob et al. Game research should consider industry best practices; this paper interviews creators to identify challenges in making AI agents.

📢 #AIIDE25 schedule has been announced! sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/... ⏰ Early registration ends Oct 10, Don’t miss out!

🏆 Best Paper – 2019 Macro Action Selection with Deep Reinforcement Learning in StarCraft by Xu et al. To reduce the gap between human players and StarCraft bots, Xu et al. propose using a Deep Reinforcement Learning framework to select macro actions instead of predefined rules.

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

🏆 Best Paper – 2018 CatSAT: A Practical, Embedded, SAT Language for Runtime PCG by Ian Douglas Horswill. Runtime constraints can leave few resources available for constraint-based PCG in games. CatSAT is a solver designed with the reality of runtime resources in mind.

🏆 Best Paper – 2017 Memory Bounded Monte Carlo Tree Search by Powley et al. Information Set MCTS is a modification on MCTS for environments with imperfect information. In this paper, Powley et al. study memory bounding for this algorithm and implement it in a commercial game.

📢 The deadline for submitting proposals to host the next AAAI Conference on Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2026) has been extended! 📅 Proposals are now due Sep 19, 2025 🔍 More info here: sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

🏆 Best Paper – 2016 Combining Gameplay Data with Monte CarloTree Search to Emulate Human Play by Devlin et al. In collaboration with game developers, the authors improve MCTS by biasing decisions based on player data, making the agent more human-like without losing performance.

🏆 Best Paper – 2015 Predicting Purchase Decisions in Mobile Free-to-Play Games by Sifa et al. Understanding who is most likely to make purchases in a freemium mobile game is important for many reasons, and Sifa et al. proposed the first regression model to address this problem.

🏆 Best Paper–2014 Spice It Up! Enriching Open World NPC Simulation Using Constraint Satisfaction By Černý et al. Meaningful NPC interactions make games feel alive! This paper presents a constraint satisfaction method to apply pre-scripted interactions in open-world environments.

🏆 Best Paper – 2013 The Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandit Problem and its Application to Real-Time Strategy Games by Santiago Ontañón The branching factor of some games makes MCTS unsuitable - until you try some of these alternative sampling strategies!

#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/...

🏆 Best Paper – 2012 POMCoP: Belief Space Planning for Sidekicks in Cooperative Games by Macindoe et al. The authors present POMCoP, a system for online belief space planning suitable for creating sidekicks for cooperative pursuit games.

🏆 Best Paper – 2011 Goal Recognition with Markov Logic Networks for Player-Adaptive Games by Ha et al. Sometimes players may have ill-defined goals and do unrelated exploring, so inferring their goal becomes tricky. Ha et al. explore using MLNs to learn player goals from actions!

🏆 Best Paper – 2010 Realistic Fireteam Movement in Urban Environments by Darken et al. The authors introduce novel approaches for a realistic simulation of visual scanning and coordinated movement of infantry units in a 3D urban environment.

To celebrate over 20 years of AAIDE we want to highlight our Best Paper winners so far! Every week we will add one to this thread until we've caught up 👾

Get your demos, prototypes or case studies ready because the #AIIDE25 case studies deadline is coming up in a week (EOD July 9th)! sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

Registration is now open for #AIIDE25 👾! Come join us in Edmonton this coming November. 🔗 sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

🚨#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/...

🚨It seems like EasyChair is down at the moment! If you’re planning to submit an abstract but haven’t done so yet, please email our program chair Matthew Guzdial at [email protected] with your title and abstract. We'll make sure it gets submitted to #AIIDE25!

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/...

The #AIIDE25 organizing committee is inviting proposals to host the 22nd AAAI Conference on Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2026), to be held between Sept-Nov 2026. 📅 Proposals are due Aug 23, 2025 🔍 More info here: sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

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/

Submissions to easychair for #AIIDE25 are now open! easychair.org/my/conference?conf=aiide25

The #AIIDE25 Call for Case Studies is up! Do you have a case study showcasing AI in digital entertainment? We invite you to come present your findings or demo a prototype. Limited funding is available through AIJ to support registration. Info in reply!

🚀The #AIIDE25 StarCraft AI competition is now accepting registrations! Sign your bot up and go for gold in one of the longest running AI competitions and a proud AIIDE tradition. Registration will be open until mid-October. 🔍Details available at: www.cs.mun.ca/~dchurchill/...

Applications for the #AIIDE25 doctoral consortium are open! This is an excellent opportunity for PhD students to get feedback and guidance. Students are paired with a senior member for mentorship and given an opportunity to present their work to the broader AIIDE community. Info in replies!

#AIIDE25 is now accepting workshop proposals! Host a workshop to gather experts in the field and exchange ideas with us in Edmonton, Canada this November. Info in replies.

👾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!

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/...

Recordings of the AIIDE 2024 talks are now up on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wJO...

And with that, #AIIDE24 is in the books! Thank you to @recardona.bsky.social, our General Chair, Seth Cooper, our Program Chair, Chesley Grove at AAAI, and all of the other people who made this year's conference possible. See you next year in Edmonton, Canada for #AIIDE25!

And finally, congratulations to Junwen Shen and Nathan R. Sturtevant for "Generalized Entropy and Solution Information for Measuring Puzzle Difficulty," this winner of Best Paper at #AIIDE24!

Congratulations to Mira Fisher and @sgware.bsky.social, tied for Best Student Paper, for "A Model for Automating the Abstraction of Planning Problems in a Narrative Context!"

Because the best paper awards were determined by voting this year, there was a tie for Best Student Paper! First, congratulations to Kaylah Facey and Seth Cooper for "Toward Space-Time Wave Function Collapse for Level and Solution Generation!"