Michael Mateas

248 papers A* 10A 7B 3C 85Misc 2Journal 28Unranked 106

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	J	`jnl`	Clicking some of the silly options: Exploring Player Motivation in Static and Dynamic Educational Interactive Narratives. CoRR Daeun Hwang, Samuel Shields, Alex Calderwood, Shi Johnson-Bey, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Edward F. Melcer
2024	—	`conf`	Building Visual Novels with Social Simulation and Storylets. ICIDS (2) Shi Johnson-Bey, Kira Liao, Samuel Shields, Daeun Hwang, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas, Edward F. Melcer
2024	C	`conf`	Corporeal Capture: The Rhetoric of Boundaries inProcedurality. DiGRA Hongwei Zhou, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2024	C	`conf`	Generating Together: Lessons Learned from Developing an Educational Visual Novel with AI Collaboration. CoG Samuel Shields, Alex Calderwood, Shi Johnson-Bey, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas, Edward F. Melcer
2024	C	`conf`	Navigating Faction Systems: Insights and Recommendations for More Believable NPCs in Video Games. FDG Rehaf Aljammaz, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2024	C	`conf`	Paradise: An Experiment Extending the Ensemble Social Physics Engine with Language Models. FDG Jack Kelly, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2024	C	`conf`	The Eyes, the Hands and the Brain: What can Text-to-Image Models Offer for Game Design and Visual Creativity? FDG Hongwei Zhou, Jichen Zhu, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2024	C	`conf`	Towards Qualia-Driven Design. DiGRA Samuel Shields, Michael Mateas, Edward F. Melcer
2024	—	`conf`	Unnatural Emergent Narrative: Toward An Alternative Design Space Through Critique. ICIDS (1) Kyle Gonzalez, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2023	—	`conf`	Modeling Morality-Based Argumentation for Believable Game Characters: A Design Postmortem. AIIDE Rehaf Aljammaz, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2023	C	`conf`	Shoelace: A Storytelling Assistant for GUMSHOE One-2-One. FDG Devi Acharya, Jack Kelly, William Tate, Maxwell Joslyn, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2023	—	`conf`	There and Back Again: Extracting Formal Domains for Controllable Neurosymbolic Story Authoring. AIIDE Jack Kelly, Alex Calderwood, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2023	—	`conf`	Toward Using ChatGPT to Generate Theme-Relevant Simulated Storyworlds. EXAG@AIIDE Shi Johnson-Bey, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2023	C	`conf`	Towards Computational Support with Language Models for TTRPG Game Masters. FDG Jack Kelly, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2023	C	`conf`	Towards an Understanding of Character Believability. FDG Rehaf Aljammaz, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2022	C	`conf`	A Demonstration of Loose Ends, A Mixed-Initiative Narrative Instrument. ICIDS Max Kreminski, Melanie Dickinson, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2022	—	`conf`	Evaluating Mixed-Initiative Creative Interfaces via Expressive Range Coverage Analysis. IUI Workshops Max Kreminski, Isaac Karth, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2022	C	`conf`	Exploring the Design Space of Social Physics Engines in Games. ICIDS Shi Johnson-Bey, Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
2022	—	`conf`	Loose Ends: A Mixed-Initiative Creative Interface for Playful Storytelling. AIIDE Max Kreminski, Melanie Dickinson, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2022	C	`conf`	Neighborly: A Sandbox for Simulation-based Emergent Narrative. CoG Shi Johnson-Bey, Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
2022	—	`conf`	Playing with the Strings: Designing Puppitor as an Acting Interface for Digital Games. AIIDE Nick Junius, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Elín Carstensdóttir
2022	C	`conf`	Requirements analysis and speculative design of support tools for TTRPG game masters. DiGRA Devi Acharya, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2022	—	`conf`	Searching for Balanced 2D Brawler Games: Successes and Failures of Automated Evaluation. AIIDE Samuel Shields, Ross Mawhorter, Edward F. Melcer, Michael Mateas
2022	C	`conf`	Select the Unexpected: A Statistical Heuristic for Story Sifting. ICIDS Max Kreminski, Melanie Dickinson, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2022	C	`conf`	Spinning Coherent Interactive Fiction through Foundation Model Prompts. ICCC Alex Calderwood, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2022	J	`jnl`	Using Self-Determination Theory to Explore Enjoyment of Educational Interactive Narrative Games: A Case Study of Academical. Frontiers Virtual Real. Katelyn M. Grasse, Max Kreminski, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas, Edward F. Melcer
2021	C	`conf`	A Coauthorship-Centric History of Interactive Emergent Narrative. ICIDS Max Kreminski, Michael Mateas
2021	C	`conf`	A Genre-Specific Game Description Language for Game Boy RPGs. CoG Tamara Duplantis, Isaac Karth, Max Kreminski, Adam M. Smith, Michael Mateas
2021	—	`conf`	Argument Box. AIIDE Workshops Rehaf Aljammaz, Yasheng She, Michael Mateas
2021	—	`conf`	Centrifuge: A Visual Tool for Authoring Sifting Patterns for Character-Based Simulationist StoryWorlds. AIIDE Workshops Shi Johnson-Bey, Michael Mateas
2021	—	`conf`	Crosston Tavern: Modulating Autonomous Characters Behaviour through Player-NPC Conversation. AIIDE Elisabeth Oliver, Michael Mateas
2021	C	`conf`	Interviews Towards Designing Support Tools for TTRPG Game Masters. ICIDS Devi Acharya, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2021	—	`conf`	Opportunities for Approachable Game Development via Program Synthesis. AIIDE Workshops Max Kreminski, Michael Mateas
2021	C	`conf`	Reflective Creators. ICCC Max Kreminski, Michael Mateas
2021	C	`conf`	Story Improvisation in Tabletop Roleplaying Games: Towards a Computational Assistant for Game Masters. CoG Devi Acharya, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2021	C	`conf`	There Is No Escape: Theatricality in Hades. FDG Nick Junius, Max Kreminski, Michael Mateas
2021	C	`conf`	Toward Narrative Instruments. ICIDS Max Kreminski, Michael Mateas
2021	—	`conf`	Winnow: A Domain-Specific Language for Incremental Story Sifting. AIIDE Max Kreminski, Melanie Dickinson, Michael Mateas
2020	—	`conf`	Germinate: A Mixed-Initiative Casual Creator for Rhetorical Games. AIIDE Max Kreminski, Melanie Dickinson, Joseph C. Osborn, Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2020	—	`conf`	Playable Experiences at the 16th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. AIIDE Melanie Dickinson, Max Kreminski, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Sabine Wieluch
2020	C	`conf`	Scheherazade's Tavern: A Prototype For Deeper NPC Interactions. FDG Rehaf Aljammaz, Elisabeth Oliver, Jim Whitehead, Michael Mateas
2020	—	`conf`	Toward Example-Driven Program Synthesis of Story Sifting Patterns. AIIDE Workshops Max Kreminski, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2020	C	`conf`	Why Are We Like This?: The AI Architecture of a Co-Creative Storytelling Game. FDG Max Kreminski, Melanie Dickinson, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2019	J	`jnl`	From Mechanics to Meaning. IEEE Trans. Games Adam Summerville, Chris Martens, Sarah Harmon, Michael Mateas, Joseph C. Osborn, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Arnav Jhala
2019	—	`conf`	Is Your Game Generator Working? Evaluating Gemini, an Intentional Generator. AIIDE Joseph C. Osborn, Melanie Dickinson, Barrett R. Anderson, Adam Summerville, Jill Denner, David M. Torres, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2019	C	`conf`	StoryAssembler: an engine for generating dynamic choice-driven narratives. FDG Jacob Garbe, Max Kreminski, Ben Samuel, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2019	C	`conf`	Towards expressive input for character dialogue in digital games. FDG Nick Junius, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2018	C	`conf`	Comparing Player Responses to Choice-Based Interactive Narratives Using Facial Expression Analysis. ICIDS John T. Murray, Raquel Robinson, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2018	—	`conf`	Freedom of Movement: Generative Responses to Motion Control. AIIDE Workshops Kate Compton, Michael Mateas
2018	—	`conf`	Gemini: Bidirectional Generation and Analysis of Games via ASP. AIIDE Adam Summerville, Chris Martens, Ben Samuel, Joseph C. Osborn, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2018	J	`jnl`	Visualizing the strategic landscape of arbitrary games. Inf. Vis. Joseph Carter Osborn, Benjamin Samuel, Michael Mateas
2017	—	`conf`	A Generative Framework of Generativity. AIIDE Workshops Kate Compton, Michael Mateas
2017	—	`conf`	Against Forward Models. AAAI Workshops Joseph Carter Osborn, Michael Mateas
2017	—	`conf`	Analyzing Expressionist Grammars by Reduction to Symbolic Visibly Pushdown Automata. AIIDE Workshops Joseph C. Osborn, James O. Ryan, Michael Mateas
2017	J	`jnl`	Automated Game Design Learning. CoRR Joseph C. Osborn, Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas
2017	—	`conf`	Automated game design learning. CIG Joseph C. Osborn, Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas
2017	J	`jnl`	Automatic Mapping of NES Games with Mappy. CoRR Joseph C. Osborn, Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas
2017	C	`conf`	Automatic mapping of NES games with mappy. FDG Joseph C. Osborn, Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas
2017	A*	`conf`	CHARDA: Causal Hybrid Automata Recovery via Dynamic Analysis. IJCAI Adam Summerville, Joseph C. Osborn, Michael Mateas
2017	J	`jnl`	CHARDA: Causal Hybrid Automata Recovery via Dynamic Analysis. CoRR Adam Summerville, Joseph C. Osborn, Michael Mateas
2017	J	`jnl`	Crafting in Games. Digit. Humanit. Q. April Grow, Melanie Dickinson, Johnathan Pagnutti, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2017	—	`conf`	Evaluating a Solver-Aided Puzzle Design Tool. MICI@CHI Joseph C. Osborn, Michael Mateas
2017	—	`conf`	Generominos: Ideation Cards for Interactive Generativity. AIIDE Workshops Kate Compton, Edward F. Melcer, Michael Mateas
2017	C	`conf`	Getting the GISST: a toolkit for the creation, analysis and reference of game studies resources. FDG Eric Kaltman, Joseph C. Osborn, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2017	—	`conf`	HyPED: Modeling and Analyzing Action Games as Hybrid Systems. AIIDE Joseph C. Osborn, Brian Lambrigger, Michael Mateas
2017	C	`conf`	Proposal for analyzing player emotions in an interactive narrative using story intention graphs. FDG John T. Murray, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2017	C	`conf`	Refining operational logics. FDG Joseph C. Osborn, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2017	—	`conf`	Social Simulation for Social Justice. AIIDE Workshops Melanie Leah Dickinson, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2017	—	`conf`	Towards General RPG Playing. AIIDE Workshops Joseph C. Osborn, Ben Samuel, Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas
2017	—	`conf`	What Does That ?-Block Do? Learning Latent Causal Affordances From Mario Play Traces. AAAI Workshops Adam Summerville, Morteza Behrooz, Michael Mateas, Arnav Jhala
2016	—	`conf`	A Lightweight Videogame Dialogue Manager. DiGRA/FDG James Owen Ryan, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2016	C	`conf`	Bad News: An Experiment in Computationally Assisted Performance. ICIDS Ben Samuel, James Owen Ryan, Adam J. Summerville, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2016	J	`jnl`	CFGs-2-NLU: Sequence-to-Sequence Learning for Mapping Utterances to Semantics and Pragmatics. CoRR Adam James Summerville, James Owen Ryan, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2016	—	`conf`	Characters Who Speak Their Minds: Dialogue Generation in Talk of the Town. AIIDE James Owen Ryan, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2016	C	`conf`	Expressionist: An Authoring Tool for In-Game Text Generation. ICIDS James Owen Ryan, Ethan Seither, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2016	—	`conf`	GameNet and GameSage: Videogame Discovery as Design Insight. DiGRA/FDG James Owen Ryan, Eric Kaltman, Timothy Hong, Katherine Isbister, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2016	—	`conf`	Mystical Tutor: A Magic: The Gathering Design Assistant via Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Learning. AIIDE Adam James Summerville, Michael Mateas
2016	—	`ch.`	Personalized and Interactive Literature. Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2016	—	`conf`	Playable Experiences at AIIDE 2016. AIIDE Alexander E. Zook, Michael Cook, Eric Butler, Kristin Siu, Matthew Guzdial, Mark O. Riedl, James Owen Ryan, Ben Samuel, Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2016	—	`conf`	Super Mario as a String: Platformer Level Generation Via LSTMs. DiGRA/FDG Adam J. Summerville, Michael Mateas
2016	J	`jnl`	Super Mario as a String: Platformer Level Generation Via LSTMs. CoRR Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas
2016	C	`conf`	The Design of Writing Buddy: A Mixed-Initiative Approach Towards Computational Story Collaboration. ICIDS Ben Samuel, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2016	J	`jnl`	The VGLC: The Video Game Level Corpus. CoRR Adam James Summerville, Sam Snodgrass, Michael Mateas, Santi Ontañón Villar
2016	B	`conf`	Translating Player Dialogue into Meaning Representations Using LSTMs. IVA James Owen Ryan, Adam James Summerville, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2015	C	`conf`	A Software Studies Approach to Interpreting Passage. FDG Dylan Lederle-Ensign, William Robinson, Johnathan Pagnutti, Michael Mateas
2015	—	`conf`	Aesthetic Interleaving of Character Performance Requests. INT/SBG@AIIDE Daniel G. Shapiro, Larry LeBron, Andrew Stern, Michael Mateas
2015	J	`jnl`	Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games: Integration (Dagstuhl Seminar 15051). Dagstuhl Reports Simon M. Lucas, Michael Mateas, Mike Preuss, Pieter Spronck, Julian Togelius
2015	C	`conf`	Bottom-up Game Studies. FDG James Owen Ryan, Eric Kaltman, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2015	C	`conf`	Casual Creators. ICCC Kate Compton, Michael Mateas
2015	C	`conf`	Combat in Games. FDG Joseph C. Osborn, Dylan Lederle-Ensign, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2015	A	`conf`	Composing Social Interactions via Social Games. AAMAS Daniel G. Shapiro, Karen Tanenbaum, Joshua McCoy, Larry LeBron, Craig W. Reynolds, Andrew Stern, Michael Mateas, Bill Ferguson, David Diller, Kerry Moffitt, Will Coon, Bruce Roberts
2015	—	`conf`	Generating Relaxed, Obvious, and Dilemma Choices with Dunyazad. AIIDE Peter Andrew Mawhorter, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2015	C	`conf`	Intentionally Generating Choices in Interactive Narratives. ICCC Michael Mateas, Peter A. Mawhorter, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2015	C	`conf`	Large-Scale Interactive Visualizations of Nearly 12, 000 Games. FDG James Owen Ryan, Eric Kaltman, Andrew Max Fisher, Timothy Hong, Taylor Owen-Milner, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2015	C	`conf`	Open Design Challenges for Interactive Emergent Narrative. ICIDS James Owen Ryan, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2015	C	`conf`	People Tend to Like Related Games. FDG James Owen Ryan, Eric Kaltman, Timothy Hong, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2015	—	`conf`	Playspecs: Regular Expressions for Game Play Traces. AIIDE Joseph Carter Osborn, Ben Samuel, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2015	C	`conf`	The Learning of Zelda: Data-Driven Level Generation for Action Role Playing Games. FDG Adam Summerville, Morteza Behrooz, Michael Mateas, Arnav Jhala
2015	C	`conf`	The Scored Rule Engine: Next-Generation Social Physics. FDG Ben Samuel, Aaron A. Reed, Paul Maddaloni, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2015	C	`conf`	Tools for Game Discovery Built Using Latent Semantic Analysis. FDG James Owen Ryan, Eric Kaltman, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2015	—	`conf`	Toward Natural Language Generation by Humans. INT/SBG@AIIDE James Owen Ryan, Andrew Max Fisher, Taylor Owen-Milner, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2015	C	`conf`	Tracery: An Author-Focused Generative Text Tool. FDG Kate Compton, Michael Mateas
2015	C	`conf`	Tracery: An Author-Focused Generative Text Tool. ICIDS Kate Compton, Ben A. Kybartas, Michael Mateas
2014	C	`conf`	A game-independent play trace dissimilarity metric. FDG Joseph C. Osborn, Michael Mateas
2014	C	`conf`	A methodology for requirements analysis of AI architecture authoring tools. FDG April Grow, Swen E. Gaudl, Paulo Gomes, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2014	C	`conf`	Author assistance visualizations for Ice-Bound, a combinatorial narrative. FDG Jacob Garbe, Aaron A. Reed, Melanie Dickinson, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2014	C	`conf`	Combinatorial Dialogue Authoring. ICIDS James Owen Ryan, Casey Barackman, Nicholas Kontje, Taylor Owen-Milner, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2014	—	`conf`	Evaluating Play Trace (Dis)similarity Metrics. AIIDE Joseph Carter Osborn, Ben Samuel, Joshua Allen McCoy, Michael Mateas
2014	—	`conf`	Gamification of private digital data archive management. GamifIR@ECIR Carlos Maltzahn, Arnav Jhala, Michael Mateas, Jim Whitehead
2014	C	`conf`	Ice-Bound: A novel of reconfiguration. FDG Jacob Garbe, Aaron A. Reed, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2014	C	`conf`	Ice-Bound: Combining richly-realized story with expressive gameplay. FDG Aaron A. Reed, Jacob Garbe, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2014	C	`conf`	Introducing story sampling: Preliminary results of a new interactive narrative evaluation technique. FDG Ben Samuel, Josh McCoy, Mike Treanor, Aaron A. Reed, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2014	C	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2014, Liberty of the Seas, Caribbean, April 3-7, 2014. FDG Michael Mateas, Tiffany Barnes, Ian Bogost
2014	J	`jnl`	Skald: Minstrel Reconstructed. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games Brandon Robert Tearse, Peter A. Mawhorter, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2014	J	`jnl`	Social Story Worlds With Comme il Faut. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games Joshua McCoy, Mike Treanor, Ben Samuel, Aaron A. Reed, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2014	C	`conf`	Software verification games: Designing Xylem, The Code of Plants. FDG Heather Logas, Jim Whitehead, Michael Mateas, Richard Vallejos, Lauren Scott, Daniel G. Shapiro, John T. Murray, Kate Compton, Joseph C. Osborn, Orlando Salvatore, Zhongpeng Lin, Huascar Sanchez, Michael Shavlovsky, Daniel Cetina, Shayne Clementi, Chris Lewis
2014	C	`conf`	Towards a theory of choice poetics. FDG Peter A. Mawhorter, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Arnav Jhala
2014	C	`conf`	Understanding representation in playable simulations. FDG Mike Treanor, Michael Mateas
2014	C	`conf`	Xylem: The Code of Plants. FDG Heather Logas, Jim Whitehead, Michael Mateas, Richard Vallejos, Lauren Scott, John T. Murray, Kate Compton, Joseph C. Osborn, Orlando Salvatore, Daniel G. Shapiro, Zhongpeng Lin, Huascar Sanchez, Michael Shavlovsky, Chris Lewis, Daniel Cetina, Shayne Clementi
2013	—	`conf`	An Account of Proceduralist Meaning. DiGRA Conference Mike Treanor, Michael Mateas
2013	—	`book`	Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games Simon M. Lucas, Michael Mateas, Mike Preuss, Pieter Spronck, Julian Togelius
2013	—	`conf`	Creating Playable Social Experiences through Whole-Body Interaction with Virtual Characters. AIIDE Daniel G. Shapiro, Joshua McCoy, April Grow, Ben Samuel, Andrew Stern, Reid Swanson, Mike Treanor, Michael Mateas
2013	—	`conf`	Modular Computational Critics for Games. AIIDE Joseph Carter Osborn, April Grow, Michael Mateas
2013	—	`ch.`	Procedural Content Generation: Goals, Challenges and Actionable Steps. Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games Julian Togelius, Alex J. Champandard, Pier Luca Lanzi, Michael Mateas, Ana Paiva, Mike Preuss, Kenneth O. Stanley
2013	—	`conf`	Prom Week. AIIDE Joshua McCoy, Mike Treanor, Ben Samuel, Aaron A. Reed, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2013	C	`conf`	Prom Week: Designing past the game/story dilemma. FDG Joshua McCoy, Mike Treanor, Ben Samuel, Aaron A. Reed, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2012	C	`conf`	A case study of expressively constrainable level design automation tools for a puzzle game. FDG Adam M. Smith, Erik Andersen, Michael Mateas, Zoran Popovic
2012	—	`conf`	Anza Island: Novel Gameplay Using ASP. PCG@FDG Kate Compton, Adam M. Smith, Michael Mateas
2012	J	`jnl`	Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games (Dagstuhl Seminar 12191). Dagstuhl Reports Simon M. Lucas, Michael Mateas, Mike Preuss, Pieter Spronck, Julian Togelius
2012	—	`conf`	Game-O-Matic: Generating Videogames that Represent Ideas. PCG@FDG Mike Treanor, Bryan Blackford, Michael Mateas, Ian Bogost
2012	C	`conf`	Getting a word in: adding artificial pauses to natural language interaction. FDG Serdar Sali, Ronald Liu, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas, Sri Kurniawan
2012	A*	`conf`	Learning from Demonstration for Goal-Driven Autonomy. AAAI Ben George Weber, Michael Mateas, Arnav Jhala
2012	A*	`conf`	Lessons Learned From a Rational Reconstruction of Minstrel. AAAI Brandon Robert Tearse, Peter A. Mawhorter, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2012	—	`conf`	RoleModelVis: A Visualization of Logical Story Models. AIIDE Sherol Chen, Andrew Deunsing, Peter Kong, Arnav Jhala, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2012	C	`conf`	The design of Mismanor: creating a playable quest-based story game. FDG Anne Sullivan, April Grow, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2012	C	`conf`	The micro-rhetorics of FDG Mike Treanor, Bobby Schweizer, Ian Bogost, Michael Mateas
2011	—	`conf`	A Particle Model for State Estimation in Real-Time Strategy Games. AIIDE Ben George Weber, Michael Mateas, Arnav Jhala
2011	J	`jnl`	Answer Set Programming for Procedural Content Generation: A Design Space Approach. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games Adam M. Smith, Michael Mateas
2011	—	`conf`	Building Human-Level AI for Real-Time Strategy Games. AAAI Fall Symposium: Advances in Cognitive Systems Ben George Weber, Michael Mateas, Arnav Jhala
2011	—	`conf`	BurgerTime: A Proceduralist Investigation. DiGRA Conference Mike Treanor, Michael Mateas
2011	—	`conf`	Comme il Faut: A System for Authoring Playable Social Models. AIIDE Joshua McCoy, Mike Treanor, Ben Samuel, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2011	—	`conf`	Computational Caricatures: Probing the Game Design Process with AI. IDP@AIIDE Adam M. Smith, Michael Mateas
2011	C	`conf`	Experimental Results from a Rational Reconstruction of MINSTREL. ICCC Brandon Robert Tearse, Peter A. Mawhorter, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2011	C	`conf`	Extending CRPGs as an Interactive Storytelling Form. ICIDS Anne Sullivan, April Grow, Tabitha Chirrick, Max Stokols, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2011	C	`conf`	Knowledge-level Creativity in Game Design. ICCC Adam M. Smith, Michael Mateas
2011	J	`jnl`	Launchpad: A Rhythm-Based Level Generator for 2-D Platformers. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games Gillian Smith, Jim Whitehead, Michael Mateas, Mike Treanor, Jameka March, Mee Cha
2011	—	`conf`	Minstrel Remixed: User Interface and Demonstration. AIIDE Brandon Robert Tearse, Peter A. Mawhorter, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2011	C	`conf`	Modeling Player Retention in Madden NFL 11. IAAI Ben George Weber, Michael John, Michael Mateas, Arnav Jhala
2011	C	`conf`	Proceduralist readings: how to find meaning in games with graphical logics. FDG Mike Treanor, Bobby Schweizer, Ian Bogost, Michael Mateas
2011	C	`conf`	Say it with systems: expanding Kodu's expressive power through gender-inclusive mechanics. FDG Teale Fristoe, Jill Denner, Matt MacLaurin, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2011	C	`conf`	Situating Quests: Design Patterns for Quest and Level Design in Role-Playing Games. ICIDS Gillian Smith, Ryan Anderson, Brian Kopleck, Zach Lindblad, Lauren Scott, Adam Wardell, Jim Whitehead, Michael Mateas
2011	J	`jnl`	Tanagra: Reactive Planning and Constraint Solving for Mixed-Initiative Level Design. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games Gillian Smith, Jim Whitehead, Michael Mateas
2011	C	`conf`	Towards Knowledge-Oriented Creativity Support in Game Design. ICCC Adam M. Smith, Michael Mateas
2011	C	`conf`	Using Information Visualization to Understand Interactive Narrative: A Case Study on Façade. ICIDS Serdar Sali, Michael Mateas
2010	—	`conf`	Applying Goal-Driven Autonomy to StarCraft. AIIDE Ben George Weber, Michael Mateas, Arnav Jhala
2010	A*	`conf`	Eliza meets the wizard-of-oz: evaluating social acceptability. CHI Steven P. Dow, Manish Mehta, Blair MacIntyre, Michael Mateas
2010	—	`conf`	LUDOCORE: A logical game engine for modeling videogames. CIG Adam M. Smith, Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
2010	C	`conf`	MINSTREL Remixed: a rational reconstruction. FDG Brandon Robert Tearse, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2010	—	`conf`	Minstrel Remixed: Procedurally Generating Stories. AIIDE Brandon Robert Tearse, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2010	—	`conf`	Novice-Friendly Authoring of Plan-Based Interactive Storyboards. AIIDE James Skorupski, Michael Mateas
2010	C	`conf`	Playing with words: from intuition to evaluation of game dialogue interfaces. FDG Serdar Sali, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Steven Dow, Michael Mateas, Sri Kurniawan, Aaron A. Reed, Ronald Liu
2010	—	`conf`	Procedural level generation using occupancy-regulated extension. CIG Peter A. Mawhorter, Michael Mateas
2010	—	`conf`	Reactive planning idioms for multi-scale game AI. CIG Ben George Weber, Peter A. Mawhorter, Michael Mateas, Arnav Jhala
2010	C	`conf`	RoleModel: towards a formal model of dramatic roles for story generation. FDG Sherol Chen, Adam M. Smith, Arnav Jhala, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2010	C	`conf`	Rules of engagement: moving beyond combat-based quests. FDG Anne Sullivan, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2010	—	`conf`	Tanagra: An Intelligent Level Design Assistant for 2D Platformers. AIIDE Gillian Smith, Jim Whitehead, Michael Mateas
2010	C	`conf`	Tanagra: a mixed-initiative level design tool. FDG Gillian Smith, Jim Whitehead, Michael Mateas
2010	C	`conf`	The Authoring Challenge in Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS Michael Mateas
2010	—	`conf`	The Prom: An Example of Socially-Oriented Gameplay. AIIDE Joshua McCoy, Mike Treanor, Ben Samuel, Brandon Robert Tearse, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2010	—	`conf`	Variations Forever: Flexibly generating rulesets from a sculptable design space of mini-games. CIG Adam M. Smith, Michael Mateas
2009	—	`conf`	A data mining approach to strategy prediction. CIG Ben George Weber, Michael Mateas
2009	C	`conf`	A requirements analysis for videogame design support tools. FDG Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
2009	—	`conf`	AI isn't just for players: AI-based authoring tools. CIG Michael Mateas
2009	—	`conf`	Agency Reconsidered. DiGRA Conference Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas, Steven Dow, Serdar Sali
2009	C	`conf`	Beep! Beep! Boom!: towards a planning model of Coyote and Road Runner cartoons. FDG David Olsen, Michael Mateas
2009	—	`conf`	Case-Based Reasoning for Build Order in Real-Time Strategy Games. AIIDE Ben George Weber, Michael Mateas
2009	—	`conf`	Computational Support for Play Testing Game Sketches. AIIDE Adam M. Smith, Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
2009	C	`conf`	Conceptual Neighborhoods for Retrieval in Case-Based Reasoning. ICCBR Ben George Weber, Michael Mateas
2009	—	`conf`	Defining Operational Logics. DiGRA Conference Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
2009	—	`conf`	Evaluating the Authorial Leverage of Drama Management. AAAI Spring Symposium: Intelligent Narrative Technologies II Sherol Chen, Mark J. Nelson, Anne Sullivan, Michael Mateas
2009	—	`conf`	Evaluating the Authorial Leverage of Drama Management. AIIDE Sherol Chen, Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
2009	—	`conf`	From Abstraction to Reality: Integrating Drama Management into a Playable Game Experience. AAAI Spring Symposium: Intelligent Narrative Technologies II Anne Sullivan, Sherol Chen, Michael Mateas
2009	C	`conf`	Generative conversation tool for game writers. FDG Christina R. Strong, Michael Mateas, Dave Grossman
2009	—	`conf`	Prototyping Games with BIPED. AIIDE Adam M. Smith, Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
2009	C	`conf`	Rhythm-based level generation for 2D platformers. FDG Gillian Smith, Mike Treanor, Jim Whitehead, Michael Mateas
2009	C	`conf`	Scenario generation for emergency rescue training games. FDG Kenneth Hullett, Michael Mateas
2009	—	`conf`	The Computation of Self in Everyday Life: A Dramaturgical Approach for Socially Competent Agents. AAAI Spring Symposium: Intelligent Narrative Technologies II Joshua McCoy, Michael Mateas
2008	J	`jnl`	Alien presence in the home: the design of Tableau Machine. Pers. Ubiquitous Comput. Mario Romero, Zachary Pousman, Michael Mateas
2008	A*	`conf`	An Integrated Agent for Playing Real-Time Strategy Games. AAAI Joshua McCoy, Michael Mateas
2008	A	`conf`	An interactive game-design assistant. IUI Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
2008	A*	`conf`	Another Look at Search-Based Drama Management. AAAI Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
2008	—	`conf`	Another look at search-based drama management. AAMAS (3) Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
2008	—	`conf`	Integrating Drama Management into an Adventure Game. AIIDE Anne Sullivan, Sherol Chen, Michael Mateas
2008	Misc	`conf`	Interactionist AI and the promise of ubicomp, or, how to put your box in the world without putting the world in your box. UbiComp Lucian Leahu, Phoebe Sengers, Michael Mateas
2008	Misc	`conf`	Living with tableau machine: a longitudinal investigation of a curious domestic intelligence. UbiComp Zachary Pousman, Mario Romero, Adam M. Smith, Michael Mateas
2008	—	`ed.`	Proceedings of the Fourth Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference, October 22-24, 2008, Stanford, California, USA AIIDE Christian Darken, Michael Mateas
2008	—	`conf`	Recombinable Game Mechanics for Automated Design Support. AIIDE Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
2008	J	`jnl`	Rounds, Levels, and Waves: The Early Evolution of Gameplay Segmentation. Games Cult. José P. Zagal, Clara Fernández-Vara, Michael Mateas
2008	—	`conf`	Semi-autonomous avatars in world of minds: a case study of AI-based game design. Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari, Michael Mateas
2008	—	`conf`	Styles of play in immersive and interactive story: case studies from a gallery installation of AR Façade. Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Steven Dow, Blair MacIntyre, Michael Mateas
2008	—	`conf`	Tableau Machine: A Creative Alien Presence. AAAI Spring Symposium: Creative Intelligent Systems Adam M. Smith, Mario Romero, Zachary Pousman, Michael Mateas
2008	—	`conf`	Talking with NPCs: Towards Dynamic Generation of Discourse Structures. AIIDE Christina R. Strong, Michael Mateas
2008	J	`jnl`	The disenchantment of affect. Pers. Ubiquitous Comput. Phoebe Sengers, Kirsten Boehner, Michael Mateas, Geri Gay
2008	A	`conf`	Towards adaptive programming: integrating reinforcement learning into a programming language. OOPSLA Christopher L. Simpkins, Sooraj Bhat, Charles Lee Isbell Jr., Michael Mateas
2007	A	`conf`	A globally optimal algorithm for TTD-MDPs. AAMAS Sooraj Bhat, David L. Roberts, Mark J. Nelson, Charles L. Isbell Jr., Michael Mateas
2007	B	`conf`	AR façade: an augmented reality interactve drama. VRST Steven Dow, Manish Mehta, Blair MacIntyre, Michael Mateas
2007	J	`jnl`	Casual Information Visualization: Depictions of Data in Everyday Life. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. Zachary Pousman, John T. Stasko, Michael Mateas
2007	A	`conf`	Evaluating a conversation-centered interactive drama. AAMAS Manish Mehta, Steven Dow, Michael Mateas, Blair MacIntyre
2007	—	`conf`	Expressive Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence, Games and New Media. AI*IA Michael Mateas
2007	A*	`conf`	Presence and engagement in an interactive drama. CHI Steven Dow, Manish Mehta, Ellie Harmon, Blair MacIntyre, Michael Mateas
2007	—	`ed.`	Proceedings of the Third Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference, June 6-8, 2007, Stanford, California, USA. AIIDE Jonathan Schaeffer, Michael Mateas
2007	—	`conf`	Temporal Frames: A Unifying Framework for the Analysis of Game Temporality. DiGRA Conference José P. Zagal, Michael Mateas
2007	—	`conf`	Towards Automated Game Design. AI*IA Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
2007	A*	`conf`	Towards Runtime Behavior Adaptation for Embodied Characters. IJCAI Peng Zang, Manish Mehta, Michael Mateas, Ashwin Ram
2007	—	`conf`	Wide Ruled: A Friendly Interface to Author-Goal Based Story Generation. International Conference on Virtual Storytelling James Skorupski, Lakshmi Jayapalan, Sheena Marquez, Michael Mateas
2006	—	`conf`	Authoring Interactive Narratives with Declarative Optimization-Based Drama Management. AIIDE Mark J. Nelson, Calvin Ashmore, Michael Mateas
2006	J	`jnl`	Declarative Optimization-Based Drama Management in Interactive Fiction. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas, David L. Roberts, Charles Lee Isbell Jr.
2006	B	`conf`	Façade: Architecture and Authorial Idioms for Believable Agents in Interactive Drama. IVA Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern
2006	J	`jnl`	Game Design Education: Integrating Computation and Culture. Computer Janet H. Murray, Ian Bogost, Michael Mateas, Michael Nitsche
2006	—	`conf`	Initial lessons from AR Façade, an interactive augmented reality drama. Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Steven Dow, Manish Mehta, Annie Lausier, Blair MacIntyre, Michael Mateas
2006	A*	`conf`	On the Difficulty of Modular Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Partial Programming. AAAI Sooraj Bhat, Charles Lee Isbell Jr., Michael Mateas
2006	—	`conf`	Procedural Level Design for Platform Games. AIIDE Kate Compton, Michael Mateas
2006	A	`conf`	Reinforcement learning for declarative optimization-based drama management. AAMAS Mark J. Nelson, David L. Roberts, Charles Lee Isbell Jr., Michael Mateas
2006	—	`conf`	Tableau machine: an alien presence in the home. CHI Extended Abstracts Mario Romero, Zachary Pousman, Michael Mateas
2006	A*	`conf`	Targeting Specific Distributions of Trajectories in MDPs. AAAI David L. Roberts, Mark J. Nelson, Charles Lee Isbell Jr., Michael Mateas, Michael L. Littman
2005	—	`conf`	Build It to Understand It: Ludology Meets Narratology in Game Design Space. DiGRA Conference Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern
2005	—	`conf`	Evolution Of Space Configuration In Videogames. DiGRA Conference Clara Fernández-Vara, José P. Zagal, Michael Mateas
2005	—	`conf`	Preliminary evaluation of the interactive drama CHI Extended Abstracts Rachel Lee Knickmeyer, Michael Mateas
2005	—	`conf`	Search-Based Drama Management in the Interactive Fiction Anchorhead. AIIDE Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
2005	—	`conf`	Structuring Content in the Façade Interactive Drama Architecture. AIIDE Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern
2005	—	`conf`	The Interactive Drama Façade. AIIDE Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern
2005	—	`conf`	Towards an Ontological Language for Game Analysis. DiGRA Conference José P. Zagal, Michael Mateas, Clara Fernández-Vara, Brian Hochhalter, Nolan Lichti
2004	—	`ch.`	A Behavior Language: Joint Action and Behavioral Idioms. Life-like characters Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern
2004	—	`conf`	Natural Language Understanding in Façade: Surface-Text Processing. TIDSE Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern
2003	—	`conf`	Expressive AI: Games and Artificial Intelligence. DiGRA Conference Michael Mateas
2002	J	`jnl`	A Behavior Language for Story-Based Believable Agents. IEEE Intell. Syst. Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern
2002	—	`conf`	Extending interface practice: an ecosystem approach. SIGGRAPH Abstracts and Applications Natalie Jeremijenko, Thecla Schiphorst, Michael Mateas, Wolfgang Strauss, Will Wright, Andruid Kerne
2002	—	`conf`	Interactive stories: real systems, three solutions. SIGGRAPH Abstracts and Applications Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Andrew Stern, Peter Molyneux, Michael Mateas, Bernard Yee
2002	A	`conf`	Machines with a different calling [robots for social environments]. IROS Marc Böhlen, Michael Mateas
2001	J	`jnl`	A preliminary poetics for interactive drama and games. Digit. Creativity Michael Mateas
2000	—	`conf`	Generation of Ideologically-Biased Historical Documentaries. AAAI/IAAI Michael Mateas, Paul Vanouse, Steffi Domike
2000	J	`jnl`	Reports on the AAAI Fall Symposia (November 1999 and November 1998). AI Mag. Fawzi Daud, Michael Mateas, Phoebe Sengers, Susan Brennan, Alain Giboin, David R. Traum, Vinay K. Chaudri, Richard Fikes, Donia Scott, Richard Power, David D. Jensen
1999	—	`ch.`	An Oz-Centric Review of Interactive Drama and Believable Agents. Artificial Intelligence Today Michael Mateas
1998	—	`conf`	Subjective Avators. Agents Michael Mateas
1997	—	`conf`	Introduction to Design Ethnography. CHI Extended Abstracts Tony Salvador, Michael Mateas
1996	—	`conf`	Engineering ethnography in the home. CHI Conference Companion Michael Mateas, Tony Salvador, Jean Scholtz, Doug Sorensen
1996	J	`jnl`	Ethnographic data for product development: a collaborative process. Interactions Scott Lewis, Michael Mateas, Susan Palmiter, Gene Lynch
1996	—	`conf`	User requirements analysis for the home. CHI Conference Companion Jean Scholtz, Michael Mateas, Tony Salvador, Doug Sorensen