IEEE CoG 2026

Accepted Papers

We are pleased to present the papers accepted for IEEE CoG 2026. Papers are grouped by track, with regular papers listed first and auxiliary papers second.

Best Paper Award Nominees

The following papers have been nominated for the IEEE CoG 2026 Best Paper Award:

129 — Qian-Rong Li, Hung Guei, I-Chen Wu and Ti-Rong Wu. MAPLE: Multi-State Aggregated Policy Evaluation for AlphaZero in Imperfect-Information Games
179 — Valentina Genoese-Zerbi, Justus Robertson and Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera. Categorizing Experience Management Problem Difficulty Using Graph Analysis
217 — Sung-Hyun Kim, Geum-Hwan Hwang, In-Chang Baek, Seo-Young Lee and Kyung-Joong Kim. Multi-Objective Instruction-Aware Representation Learning in Procedural Content Generation Reinforcement Learning
245 — Filip Sroka and Laurissa Tokarchuk. Segment-Based Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment for Motor Learning in VR Rhythm Games
252 — Tania Olarte Avila. Designing Reflective Mobile Game Systems for Mental Health Literacy Through Emotional Granularity
425 — Joseph Dalhke, Thomas Esplin, Matthew Sheppard and Christopher Archibald. A Hybrid Codenames AI Team: Combining Static Word Embeddings and LLMs

All accepted papers are listed below.

AI for Game Playing

Regular Papers

8 — Christian Poglitsch and Johanna Pirker. Training Compact Language Models for Strategic Reasoning in Social Deduction Games
23 — Lukas Grassauer. Characterizing Game Difficulty Using Monte Carlo Tree Search Convergence Metrics
34 — Olca Orakci and Elif Surer. Bridging the Generalization Gap in Open-Ended Game Worlds: Multi-Agent LLM Reasoning in Neural MMO 2
43 — Eric Buitron Lopez and Roberto Solis-Oba. A Memory-Driven Action Selection Framework for Scalable Ambient NPC Behavior
46 — Remo Sasso, Michelangelo Conserva, Dominik Jeurissen and Paulo Rauber. Foundation Models as World Models: A Foundational Study in Text-Based Gridworlds
59 — Daniel Keren. How Much Can a Few Engine Moves Help? Quantifying Limited Cheating in Chess
69 — Christoph Koller, Johannes Fürnkranz and Timo Bertram. RePAIR: Predictive Self-Supervised Representation Learning in Chess
86 — Adrian Kathagen, Fabian Ostermann and Marco Pleines. Simulating Super Mario Odyssey for Agent Training using Decompilation
90 — Bowen Lyu, David Mao San Wei, Ruochen Liu and Elvis S. Liu. Phase-Guided Real-Time Motion In-Betweening for Arbitrary-to-Periodic Transitions
101 — Jiahong Li, Sai Siddartha Maram, Atieh Kashani, Ulia Zaman, Zhiyu Lin, Cameron Marano, Roger Azevedo, Jichen Zhu and Magy Seif El Nasr. Oops, Not Now: PEARL, a RAG-Based Support Agent for Gameplay and What Players Want from AI Help
105 — Strahinja Jankovic, Sven Liedtke, Jonas Weigand, Himangshu Sarma, David A. Plecher, Johanna Pirker and Christian Eichhorn. Comparing Scripted and LLM-Guided Driver Instruction in Virtual Reality
112 — Jason Carlson, Lincoln Bernard and Brian Carlson. Preference-Optimized Policies for Realistic Grandmaster Chess
125 — Haruki Yokoyama, Ryohei Orihara, Yasuyuki Tahara and Yuichi Sei. Intent-Belief Multi-task Transformer for Behavior Cloning in Mahjong
129 — Qian-Rong Li, Hung Guei, I-Chen Wu and Ti-Rong Wu. MAPLE: Multi-State Aggregated Policy Evaluation for AlphaZero in Imperfect-Information Games
138 — Timo Bertram. Introducing the Dominion Learning Environment for Stochastic Long‑Horizon Combinatorial Reinforcement Learning
150 — Somjit Nath, Abdelhak Lemkhenter, Pallavi Choudhury, Chris Lovett, Katja Hofmann, Sergio Valcarcel Macua and Lukas Schäfer. Augmentations for Robust and Efficient Imitation Learning in Streamed Video Games
163 — Brian Yang, Toma Allary, Ian Gauk, Clark Verbrugge and Joshua Romoff. Efficient Human-like Aiming in FPS Games
166 — Anthony Gagliano and Clark Verbrugge. Ally-Conscious Area of Effect Targeting
171 — Vignesh Mohan. IRumAI: Reinforcement Learning for Indian Rummy
180 — Jonas Peche, Aliaksei Tsishurou, Alexander Zap and Guenter Wallner. Multi-Task Learning for Heterogeneous Prediction from Video Game State with Transfer Learning
203 — Ruizhe Yu Xia, Jeremy Gow and Simon Lucas. Graph Neural Network Agents for Planet Wars
208 — John Chen, Sihan Cheng, Can Gurkan, Ryan Lay and Moez Salahuddin. Vox Deorum: A Hybrid LLM+X Architecture for Civilization (4X / Grand Strategy Game) AI
221 — Sam Earle, Graham Todd, Zehua Jiang, Muhammad Umair Nasir, Andrzej Banburski-Fahey, Yuchen Li, Julian Togelius and Ahmed Khalifa. PuzzleJAX: A Benchmark for Learning and Reasoning
235 — George Long, Diego Perez-Liebana and Spryidon Samothrakis. Optimising Team Compositions through Large Language Model Theorycrafting
244 — Syed Aman Rahaman, Ibrahim Khan, Thai Van Nguyen, Mustafa Can Gursesli, Juho Hamari and Ruck Thawonmas. Hearing the HASARD: Investigating the Role of Audio for Safe Reinforcement Learning in Partially Observable 3D Environments

Auxiliary Papers

287 — Kaijie Xu, Yiwei Zhang and Clark Verbrugge. Efficient Multi-Guard Patrol through Extended Composite Potential Fields
294 — Alessandro Sestini, Joakim Bergdahl, Amir Masood Baghi, Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre, Florian Fuchs and Linus Gisslen. Augmenting Game AI with Deep Reinforcement Learning
310 — Mathis Delsart, Achille Morenville and Éric Piette. Combining Spatial and Entity-Based Reasoning for Competitive MicroRTS via U-Net and Transformers
315 — Stefano Lambiase. “We Must Be Better” A Critical Vision for the Convergence of Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction in Generative AI-Driven Video Game Development
320 — Mohit Jiwatode, Alexander Dockhorn and Bodo Rosenhahn. Compiling VGDL into Causal Models
321 — Han Cheng, Wuzhou Sun and Ji Zhang. A Hybrid Assessment Method for Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in Adversarial Games
325 — Bryan Bachelet, Vincent Devine, Matéo Erbisti, Omaya Lise, Aurélien Lherbier and Aurélien Chambon. Evaluating transfer learning for reinforcement learning agents across same-genre video games
331 — Tomas Rigaux and Hisashi Kashima. Predicting Drafted Deck Strength for “Magic: the Gathering”
338 — Ryuta Noguchi and Tomoyuki Kaneko. Learning strategies including cooperative actions in adversarial multi-player game
339 — Kaijie Xu, Fandi Meng, Clark Verbrugge and Simon Lucas. Action Selection in Multiplayer Hidden-Information Games with Expected Target Entropy
342 — Dominik Budzki and Jakub Kowalski. A Transformer-Based Architecture for Reinforcement Learning in Tales of Tribute
366 — Varun Adithiyan Ravichandran, James Goodman and Simon Lucas. Evaluation of Perfect‑Information Monte Carlo Tree Search in Imperfect‑Information Games
367 — Simão Reis and Fernando Alves. Deep Team Synthesis: Opponent-Conditioned Latent Space Mapping for the Pokémon VGC AI Competition
384 — Dien Nguyen and Diego Perez Liebana. Game-Agnostic Value Functions through Automatic JSON Feature Extraction
386 — Dominik Jeurissen, Duygu Cakmak, Ji-Eun Lee and Ram Rangan. A Game-Integrated On-Device Gaming Assistant
394 — Shinichi Arimura, Yuchen Li and Julian Togelius. Stack more levels: how to get general and human-like Mario playing
400 — Michiel Pronk, Rik van Noord and Malvina Nissim. Playing the Rebus Game: DR.DENKER Measures Visual Lateral Reasoning in Language Models
411 — Botao Hu and Qi Zhang. Privileged Critics Improve Bridge Bidding Agents Trained with PPO and Self‑Play
415 — Kevin Christopher Chua, Al Muqshith Mohammed Shifan, Cristiano Politowski, Ali Neshati and Loutfouz Zaman. RIDGE: State-Conditioned Reward Blending for Behavioral Coverage in Deep RL Game Agents
418 — Owen Salyer and Chad Mourning. An Evaluation of Large Language Models on Before-and-After Trivia Clues
425 — Joseph Dalhke, Thomas Esplin, Matthew Sheppard and Christopher Archibald. A Hybrid Codenames AI Team: Combining Static Word Embeddings and LLMs
430 — Pablo Carrasco Velo, Yifan Geng, Yi Xia, Ibrahim Khan, Mustafa Can Gursesli, Anna Enrica Tosti, Juho Hamari and Ruck Thawonmas. The Annoying AI: Impact of Context-Aware LLM Trash-Talking on Player Frustration and Engagement

Game Analytics and Player Experience

Regular Papers

37 — Nahian Rifaat, Felix Morosov and Loutfouz Zaman. Multi-Label Perceptual Bug Detection in Video Games using Deep Learning on Gameplay Footage
49 — Carlo A. Furia and Andrea Mocci. A Taxonomy of Design Quality in Super Mario Maker 2
65 — Stefan Freyr Gudmundsson. A Fingerprint Framework for Analyzing Bridge
84 — Ronja Fuchs, Florian Rupp, Timo Bertram, Kai Eckert and Alexander Dockhorn. Toxicity in Twitch Chats: An LLM-Based Analysis Across Gaming Communities
89 — Tianyuan Zhou, Zhizheng Fu and Tianming Yang. Accelerating Skill Assessment in Chess: A Drift-Diffusion-Enhanced Elo Rating System
117 — Eren Karan, Anan Schütt, Ruben Schlagowski and Elisabeth André. Aha! in Chess Puzzles: Connections to Chess Engine Outputs and Enjoyment
131 — Oleg Jarma, Erica Manca, Thomas Vase Schultz Volden and Paolo Burelli. Atari Games Challenge: A Pilot Study on Multimodal Player Experience Assessment
135 — Tamsin Isaac and Paul Cairns. Playing Against the Clock: A Cross-Platform Taxonomy of Limited-Time Events
179 — Valentina Genoese-Zerbi, Justus Robertson and Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera. Categorizing Experience Management Problem Difficulty Using Graph Analysis
186 — Lauren Winter and Paul Cairns. The Jingle of Contrasting Constructs: Comparing Measures of Immersion and Challenge from the PXI and IEQ-SF.
192 — Linqi Zhao, Aleksandra Landowska, Johann Benerradi, Horia Maior, Max Wilson and Patrick Dickinson. Personality Traits, Perceived Mental Workload and Game Difficulty: An Exploratory Study
193 — Younsung Lee, Yujin Kim and Kyung-Joong Kim. Beyond Detection: Full Minimap State Reconstruction in MOBA Games
198 — Heeyun Heo and Huy Kang Kim. When to Switch, Not Just What: Transition Quality Prediction in Clash Royale
206 — Shoki Seki and Tomokazu Ishikawa. Quantitative Analysis of Player-Adjusted Hit Feedback in 2D Action Games
239 — Afshin Gholami and Seyedsadegh Yousefzadeh. Perceived Intelligence, Trust, and Engagement in Prompt-Conditioned Conversational Game Characters: A Within-Subject Study
246 — Ray Ito. Game AI Not Fun? A Scoping Review and Meta-Analysis on the Differences in Enjoyment between Human and Computer Opponents

Auxiliary Papers

307 — Ting-Chen Hsu, Jiangxu Lin, Wenran Chen, Zheyuan Zhang and Fei Qin. Who embraces AI in play? Exploratory modeling of player preference profiles toward game AI
308 — Seongeun Baek and Joonho Kwon. Kill-Conditioned Engagement Outcome Prediction in League of Legends Under Minute-Resolution Public Telemetry
323 — Nahian Rifaat, Fedir Skliar, Parisa Sargolzaei and Loutfouz Zaman. A Space-Agnostic Visual Game Analytics Tool with Adaptive Spatial Reconstruction for Mixed Reality Game Development
349 — Rafael Da Silva Santos, Leonardo Ferreira da Costa, Ana Luiza Bessa de Paula Barros and Gustavo Augusto Lima de Campos. YGO-Turns: A Large-Scale Tournament Dataset of Expert Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel States
372 — Emil Wallraff, Johannes Büttner and Sebastian von Mammen. Playstyle Classification using Player Metrics
399 — Yucheon Park, Geum-Hwan Hwang and Kyung-Joong Kim. Judging the Imitation Game: Exploring Creator Bias in VLM-Based PCG Level Evaluation
426 — Lisa Liu, Runqi Zou, Shuxuan Kuang, Yuchen Li, Tim Merino and Julian Togelius. LURK Werewolf: Evaluating Linguistic Bias in Large Language Models
436 — Fabian Wiesinger, Johanna Pirker and Denis Helic. Association between Player Perception and AI Disclosure on Steam - An Exploratory Study
437 — Tobias Schneider and Rafet Sifa. BehaviorFormer: Discovering Behavioral Patterns via Clusterable Next-Token Prediction
444 — Emanuele Galardo, Giovambattista Ianni and Denise Angilica. Dual-Stage Label-Isomorphic State Validation in Grid Logic Games

Game Design and Technology

Regular Papers

24 — Michael Fairbank and Mark Moxon. Analysing the Saturn Loading Screen from the Classic Computer Game: Elite
25 — Michael Fairbank and Mark Moxon. The Rotating Planets in the Classic Game: Elite
28 — Diego Tondorf, Fabio Petrillo and Alexandra Nemery. A Systematic Mapping of Elements of Fun in Digital Games
73 — Danial Barazandeh, Alireza Dehghanpour and Gabriel Zachmann. Splat, Click, Asset: An Artist-Centric Segmentation Pipeline for Gaussian Splats
106 — Esdras Silva, Lyrene Silva and Roberta Coelho. LLM-Based Automated Test Generation for Unity Games: An Empirical Study
108 — Rafael da Silva Santos, Ana Luiza Bessa de Paula Barros and Gustavo Augusto Lima de Campos. MSED: Engine-Level Multi-Modal Trajectory Recording for Minecraft
136 — Valère Plantevin and Yannick Francillette. QUIC as a Unified Transport Layer for Real-Time Multiplayer Games: A Formal Analysis and Empirical Evaluation
187 — Samuel Shields and Edward Melcer. Balance Equalization: A Framework for the Development of Game Balance Across Audience, Designer, and Game Contexts
194 — Zhaoyou Liu. FlashLore: Graph-Structured and Closed-World Grounded Memory for Believable Game NPCs
210 — Kyle Mitchell, Nicholas Treynor, Halil Ozgur Demir, Nick Toothman, Gina Bloom, Colin Milburn, Michael Neff and Joshua McCoy. Breaking the Death Spiral: Balancing Authenticity and Feasibility in Parameterized Narrative AI
228 — Luca Roes, Fabian Ostermann and Günter Rudolph. Evaluating the Benefits of External Observations for Adaptive Music Systems

Auxiliary Papers

312 — Lucas Gonzalez, Yannick Francillette, Valère Plantevin and Sylvain Hallé. Evaluating Game Difficulty: A Static Approach via Spatial Queries and Influence Fields
316 — Gaole Huang, Jian Tan and Max Chen. Agency and Creativity in GenAI-based Game Development and Design Education
322 — Jerrin Moore. PRISM: Promoted Robust Instance-based Spatial Memory for Real-Time Player Behavioral Encoding
347 — Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa, María Sachez Carrasco and Jaime Sánchez Hernández. Towards a Reaper/FMOD Framework for Seamless Horizontal Re-sequencing in Game Music
353 — Jerry Wexler, Carmine Guida and Lauren DeMaio. ConstructRL: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for the Construct Game Engine
371 — Ray Ito, Naoyuki Jimbo and Koya Ihara. Text2BT: A Baseline Study on LLM-Agent-Based Behavior Tree Generation for Game Character AI
380 — Benedict Wilkins, Carlos Celemin, Adrián Barahona-Ríos, Saman Zadtootaghaj and Nabajeet Barman. Evaluating VLMs for Autonomous Agent-Driven Geometry Clipping Detection in Video Game QA
422 — Mei Si. Repair-Aware Game AI Agents for Long-Horizon Narrative Design and Planning
439 — Simão Reis, A. Lucas Martins, Rita Novais and Fernando Alves. Architecting Meta-Game Diversity: Novel Objective Formalizations for the VGC AI Benchmark

Game Human-Computer Interaction

Regular Papers

147 — Sittikrai Chorrojprasert, Ben Kirman, Myat Thura Aung and Alena Denisova. Proactive or Reactive? Comparison of Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment Effects on Player Experience and Physical Effort in a Running Exergame
161 — Gwendal Paton, Anne-Gwenn Bosser, Nathalie Le Bigot and Brian Ravenet. Progressive Crowd Densification to Support Narrative Engagement in VR
165 — Maria Edwards and Julian Togelius. Nonslop: A Gamified Experiment in Human-AI Collaborative Writing
219 — Li Lin, Wenshu Zhang, Tim Smith and Ailin Dong. State-Driven Audio Description for Environmental Understanding in 3D Games for Players with Blindness and Low Vision
245 — Filip Sroka and Laurissa Tokarchuk. Segment-Based Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment for Motor Learning in VR Rhythm Games

Auxiliary Papers

330 — Jose Barambones, Florian Richoux, Angélica de Antonio, Cristian Moral, Elena Villalba-Mora, Ricardo Imbert and Loïc Martínez-Normand. Game Mechanics as HCI Research Tools: A Crosswalk and Equivalence Protocol for Card Sorting

Procedural Content Generation

Regular Papers

54 — Miguel Belbute and Carlos Martinho. The Plot Thickens as the Data Shrinks: Insights into Compression-Based Story Sifting
55 — Yiwei Zhang, Kaijie Xu, Richard Zhao and Clark Verbrugge. Path2Patrol: Path-Conditioned Guard Generation in Stealth Games through MAP-Elites
97 — Trevor Truesdell, Erik Rankin and Britton Horn. From Tiles to Jumps: Optimizing Wave Function Collapse Window Size for Playable Platformer Generation
116 — Nozomu Karai, Mitsuki Sakamoto, Keisuke Niimi, Koya Ihara and Kenshi Abe. Puzzle Level Generation with Designer-intended Gimmick Usage and Verified Solvability in Hexa Away
127 — Meiyi Liu and Chun Yuen. Pre-processing Enhancement for Recovering Editable Window Instances from AIGC Building Meshes
142 — Petr Šimůnek and Oliver Wakeford. Constraint-Aware Terrain Completion from Sparse Fixed Regions for Game Heightmaps
151 — Matthew Siper, Ahmed Khalifa and Julian Togelius. Procedural Content Generator Generation via Continual Abstraction Discovery
155 — Arturo Valdivia and Paolo Burelli. Improving Collaborative Storytelling with a Multi-Agent Framework Based on Large Language Models
170 — Filip Natanael Josefsson, Aseel Berglund, Christoph Kessler and Erik Berglund. Analysis of Overfitting, Prompt Impact and Model Choice in Video Game Level Generation with Fine-Tuned LLMs
184 — Johannes Pfau, Ian Baverstock, Martin de Ronde, Michiel Mol and Jasper Vis. Generative Remastering: Token- versus Diffusion-Based Level Generation, Target Style Realization, and Autonomous Augmentation
189 — Qianwen Lyu, David Millard and Nicholas Gibbins. Narrative intervention for prospective story sifting
214 — Baek In-Chang, Jiyun Jung, Sung-Hyun Kim, Hwang Geum-Hwan and Kyung-Joong Kim. Multiverse: Language-Conditioned Multi-Game Level Blending via Shared Representation
217 — Sung-Hyun Kim, Geum-Hwan Hwang, In-Chang Baek, Seo-Young Lee and Kyung-Joong Kim. Multi-Objective Instruction-Aware Representation Learning in Procedural Content Generation Reinforcement Learning

Auxiliary Papers

286 — Kaijie Xu, Fandi Meng and Clark Verbrugge. Scene-Modular LLM-Driven Procedural Level Generation for Anomaly-Detection Games
298 — Kaijie Xu and Clark Verbrugge. Boss Fights as Spatio-Temporal Level Generation
299 — José Martins, Francisco Cardoso, Cedric Hartz, Kinga Skorupska and Jakub Kowalski. Real-time Procedural Generation of Coherent Infinite Multi-biome 2D Landscapes
305 — Ahmed Alzuhair, Ghala Alqahtani, Yahya Osais and Ahmed Alherz. Sudoku-Based Constructive Generation of Constraint-Satisfying Cubes for OCD Assessment
313 — Justus Robertson. Game Simulacra Construction from Gameplay Video with a Multimodal LLM
356 — John Brazell and Justus Robertson. Pacing-Aware Procedural Generation and Runtime Control
359 — Yunlong Zhao, Yi Yuan, Qingquan Zhang, Ziqi Wang, Jian Yang, Bo Yuan, Jichen Zhu, Georgios Yannakakis and Jialin Liu. PCG.ME: Procedural Content Generation with Multiple Experts
412 — Min-Sung Park, Dae-Wook Kim, Shinjin Kang and Si-Hwan Jang. Beyond Playability: A Design-Space Perspective on Persistent Spatial Intent in Co-Creative PCGRL
417 — Mukesh Guntumadugu and Chad Mourning. Dance Dance Prompting: Generating Stepfiles with Large Language Models
427 — Edward Johnson, Pedro Elias Engelberg Silva Borges, Arthur Galdino Dangoni, Wilson Maranhão Ramos Filho, Diogo Fernandes and Arlindo Rodrigues Galvão Filho. A Comparative Study of Multimodal Models on Constraint-Based 2D Game Asset Production
432 — Dipika Rajesh, Ahmed Khalifa and Julian Togelius. Evolutionary Wave Function Collapse
440 — Ryan Fleishman, Shresth Kapoor, Teddy Clark, Jan Borowski, Timothy Merino and Julian Togelius. RuleSweeper: Procedurally Generating Gameplay Mechanics In Minesweeper
445 — Anne Vetter and Sebastian von Mammen. Puzzle Anything: An Assembly-Graph Representation for 3D Puzzle Authoring

Serious Games

Regular Papers

30 — Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Nadia Damianova, Andrei Koshelev, Ivan Parmacli and Stefan Wagner. TUMSphere: Turning a University Curriculum into Playable VR Challenges
50 — Carlos Pereira Santos, Phil de Groot, Jens Hagen, Wilco Boode and Igor Mayer. Procedural Ocean: Design of Maritime Visualizations using Game Technology
53 — Michael Schuricht, Ahsanullah Mohsen and Duc Hung Pham. Jump-and-Learn: Exploring the Potential of Platformer Games for Knowledge Acquisition in Higher Education
62 — Bradford Mott, Jessica Vandenberg, Carlos Penilla, James Lester and Elizabeth Ozer. Enhancing AI Literacy Through Narrative-Centered Gameplay: A Multi-Classroom Evaluation
71 — Mennatullah Hendawy, Ola K. Esmail, Jiahong Li, Nouran Azouz, Ulia Zaman, Anagha Kannampilly Janardhanan, Mario Escarce and Magy Seif El Nasr. From Individuals to Systems: A Multi-Level Action Framework for Interactive Tools and Systems Addressing Wicked Problems - Case of Serious Games
110 — Gabriel Santos, Rita Julia and Marcelo Nascimento. Agentic Knowledge Tracing: A Multi-Agent LLM Architecture for Stealth Assessment of Financial Literacy in Serious Games
143 — Claire Aguiar, Jessica Vandenberg, Dan Carpenter, Veronica Catete, Wookhee Min and Bradford Mott. Pathfinding Showdown: Understanding Algorithmic Search Through Competitive Play
148 — Andrés Cela, Edwin Daniel Oña and Alberto Jardón. Feasibility of an eJamar-Based Exergame System Combined with Conventional Therapy in Patients with Rheumatic Hand Conditions: A Preliminary Study.
159 — Franziska Bönisch, Mounsif Chetitah and Sebastian von Mammen. Generating Serious Game Concepts from Learning Objective Specifications
195 — David Abián and Pablo Gutiérrez-Sánchez. CVshredder: A Telemetry-Rich Paradigm for Sequential Stopping Under Time Pressure, Partial Observability, and Costly Information Acquisition
209 — Casper Harteveld, Guillermo Romera and Omid Mohaddesi. Co-Developing and Calibrating a Gamified Survey for Player Motivation Profiling
247 — Edward Melcer, Samuel Shields, Daeun Hwang, Alex Calderwood, Shi Johnson-Bey, Michael Mateas and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Player Experiences in Static and Dynamic Educational Interactive Narratives

Auxiliary Papers

333 — Florian Glawogger, Johanna Pirker and Michael Holly. Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Environmental Game in Encouraging Eco-Friendly Behavior
345 — Gijs van der Heide, Jordy del Castilho, Leonardo Lago, Pavel Verigo, Teodor Stănilă, Zeyu Fan, Tzu-Hsin Hsieh, Amir Zaidi, Giulio Barbero, Mike Preuss and Rafael Bidarra. Prompted: a puzzle game on LLM prompting
374 — Rita Novais, Luís Reis, Brígida Faria and Eliana Silva. Towards Intelligent and Adaptive Serious Games for Cognitive Rehabilitation in Acquired Brain Injury
379 — Rares-Ioan Suciu and Isabela Dramnesc. Enhancing Serious Games through Robotic Embodiment in Education
398 — Pablo Gutiérrez-Sánchez and Nel Sánchez-Fernández. Orchestrating Engagement: Design and Pilot Evaluation of an RPG for Music Literacy Education
443 — Willi Schorrig, Manuel Danze, Philipp Rapp and Manuel Eberhardinger. Tone: Evaluating a Minimalist Interactive Music Learning Experience for Children

Special Session - Evaluating and Advancing Spatial Intelligence through Games

Regular Papers

63 — Mohit Jiwatode, Ronja Fuchs, Robin Schmöcker, Alexander Dockhorn and Bodo Rosenhahn. Spatial Reasoning in LLM Game Agents: Impact of Causal Context and Multi-Step Planning

Auxiliary Papers

408 — Noah Syrkis, Timothée Anne, Meriem Elhosni, Florian Turati, Alexandre Manai, Franck Legendre, Alain Jaquier and Sebastian Risi. Parabellum: A Vectorized Hierarchical Game Environment for Evaluating Spatial Intelligence in Vision-Language-Action Models

Special Session - Games for Health and Wellbeing

Regular Papers

38 — William Kerstens, Stylianos Grigoriadis, Thomas Nikodelis and Paris Mavromoustakos-Blom. Strength-based Movement Training through a Variability-based Serious Game
67 — Yirui Zuo, Yaxin Zhu, Wen Chen, Ziqiang Yan, Jiachen Du, Longtao Gai and Xinyi Fu. Cultivating Connections: A Tangible Tabletop Game for Older Adults' Social Engagement
123 — Marlene Rosa, John Henry, Sylvester Arnab and Carolina Reina. Towards a design framework for game-based interventions in dementia: an umbrella review using the player–game–therapy model (PGT-model)
126 — Carolina Reina, Clara Neves, Alexandre Cavaleiro, Susana Lopes and Marlene Rosa. Beyond Play: Predictors of Performance in an Analogue Tabletop Activity Among Older Adults With and Without Dementia
252 — Tania Olarte Avila. Designing Reflective Mobile Game Systems for Mental Health Literacy Through Emotional Granularity

Auxiliary Papers

303 — Fernanda Lima, Sérgio Oliveira, Manuel Graça, Bernardo Marques, Samuel Silva, Miguel Pais-Vieira and Beatriz Sousa Santos. Employing Personalized Avatars in Virtual Reality Environments to Support Stroke Rehabilitation
377 — David Pinto, Luís Paulo Reis, Catarina Fernandes, Marta Parreira and Eliana Silva. Cogni Party: A Multiplayer Party Game with Adaptive AI Agents for Cognitive Rehabilitation of Acquired Brain Injury Patients
383 — Eliana Silva, David Fang, Luís Paulo Reis and Sara A. Silva. Designing a Serious Game for Elementary Teachers’ Emotion Regulation: Insights from Teachers and Health Professionals
389 — Loïc Braud, Alexandra Plonka, Olivier Cavadenti and Maël Addoum. COGITO: A Dynamic LLM-Driven Virtual Patient Simulation for Speech-language Pathology Training
407 — Avery Keuben, Talaal Irtija, Joseph Tandyo, Stefanie Ng, Amy Wiebe, Samuel Gaudet, Rebekah Leslie, Meadow Schroeder, Lauren Goegan and Richard Zhao. From Design Principles to Prototype: A Game for Students with ADHD and Learning Disabilities Transitioning to Post-Secondary Education

Accepted Industry Talks

John Lewis and Rijk Groenewoud (LoreWeaver). From Scripted Content to Systemic Narrative: Building On-Device Emergent Narrative with LoreWeaver Director
Piero Molino, Patrick John Chia, Federico Bianchi, Jonathan P. Chen and Paul Szerlip (Studio Atelico). GARP: Real-Time Generative Agents on Local Hardware in a Game Engine
Alex Kearney (Artificial.Agency). From Rules to Rulings: How Agentic AI Restores the Board Game Advantage to Digital Games
Chris Brown (Kythera AI). Climbing Up The Walls: Building a Navigation System for Characters That Defy Gravity
Paolo Maninetti (Reply). Prompt-to-Prototype: LLM-Driven Authoring of Enemy Behaviors in Unreal Engine
Sam Harris and Ambrose Robinson (Parable Studios). Own Your Game - Ethical On-Device AI for Developers
Dominik Jeurissen and Duygu Cakmak (Creative Assembly, NVIDIA). What should I do? An Experimental Onboarding Advisor for Total War: Pharaoh
Alexander Zap (Wargaming Group Limited). Teaching tanks to behave - How to use Reinforcement Learning and get better every day
Nathaly Kalantar (Replay Masters EU). Teaching Game Design Through Hybrid Play
Diana Kulich, Dj Human and Jonathan Bödewadt-Pedersen (Raw Power Labs). Your game is a graph, so why not make your GDDs one, too?
Marta Beltrán (Spanish Data Protection Authority). Beyond "I agree": Building data protection into the game development life cycle

Accepted Demos

Md Mamunur Rashid. Gaming Beyond Entertainment: Social Belonging, Loneliness, and Digital Wellbeing in Global Gaming Communities
Bianca Miranda, Samuel Costa, João Pedro Mello, David Augustus Pinheiro, Beatriz Gouveia, Deborah Arruda and Alyson Souza. DodgeballMR: An Immersive Sporting Gaming for Local Multiuser Social Interaction
Joshua Kritz. Using Generative AI to Create Microtools for Tabletop Game Design Workflows
John Brazell and Justus Robertson. Pacing-Aware Procedural Generation and Runtime Control Demo
María del Mar López Guerrero. Educational Escape Rooms for Chemistry Learning: From the Zombie Attack to the Theft of the Mona Lisa
Esdras Silva, Lyrene Silva and Roberta Coelho. AI Doing the "Laundry and Dishes": One-Click Automated Test Generation inside Unity
Chanhee Choi. Real-Time Neural Data Mapping in Unity: A BCI-Driven Experimental Gameplay System
Sam Harris and Ambrose Robinson. Own Your Game: Ethical On-Device AI for Developers
Piero Molino, Patrick John Chia, Federico Bianchi, Jonathan P. Chen and Paul Szerlip. GARP Demo: Real-Time Generative Agents on Local Hardware in a Game Engine
Saad Bazaz and Talha Amjad. Vibecoder Simulator: A self-modifying game environment with agentic world tools
Ting-Chen Hsu. “Sincerity or Treasure”: An AI-Native Strategic and Collaborative Deduction Game Exploring Player-AI Reasoning Dynamics
Li Lin, Ailin Dong, Corey Ford, Tim Smith and Wenshu Zhang. A State-Driven Audio Description Tool for Environmental Understanding in 3D Games
Toby Best, Raluca Gaina, Simon Lucas, James Goodman and Jamie Harris. Descent: Journeys in the Dark' Computer-Aided Content Generation
Paul Riesch, Mary Linke, Florian Rupp, Sabiha Ghellal and Katie Seaborn. CaféBeans: An Exploratory Serious Game for Deceptive Design Awareness
Miguel Belbute and Carlos Martinho. The Plot Thickens: An Interactive Demo of Compression-Based Story Sifting in RimWorld
Mathias Babin. TRACE: Temporal Representation Alignment for non-player Character Evolution
Masayuki Ono, Hayato Iwai, Onur Alparslan and Kenya Sato. Proposal of a Play Style Imitation Method Using a Finite State Machine with Deep Neural Network in Fighting Games
Ting-Chen Hsu, Jueyao Liu, Yanzi Zhou, Jiangxu Lin, Haoyu Xu, Yuwen Liu, Yanjia Liu and Bangjing Xu. "Pharos Night: Crown Pursuit": An AI-Native Deck-building and Tactical Arena Game Design
Manuel Bacallado. Impact Trial: Hyperchaos — An Arcade Shoot ’Em Up Featuring a Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment System
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