Sam Earle

48 papers A* 1A 2B 1C 9Journal 29Unranked 6
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 — conf
The Garden of Forking Paths: Narrative Arc-Conditioned Gameplay Planning.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Yunge Wen, Chenliang Huang, Julian Togelius, Sam Earle
2025 J jnl
A Markovian Framing of WaveFunctionCollapse for Procedurally Generating Aesthetically Complex Environments.
CoRR
Franklin Yiu, Mohan Lu, Nina Li, Kevin Joseph, Tianxu Zhang, Julian Togelius, Timothy Merino, Sam Earle
2025 J jnl
All Stories Are One Story: Emotional Arc Guided Procedural Game Level Generation.
CoRR
Yunge Wen, Chenliang Huang, Hangyu Zhou, Zhuo Zeng, Chun Ming Louis Po, Julian Togelius, Timothy Merino, Sam Earle
2025 J jnl
Amorphous Fortress Online: Collaboratively Designing Open-Ended Multi-Agent AI and Game Environments.
CoRR
M Charity, Mayu Wilson, Steven Lee, Dipika Rajesh, Sam Earle, Julian Togelius
2025 — conf
Autoverse: Evolving Symbolic Neural Cellular Automata Environments to Train Player Agents.
GECCO Companion
Sam Earle, Julian Togelius
2025 — conf
Demonstrating DreamGarden: A Designer Assistant for Growing Games from a Single Prompt.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Sam Earle, Samyak Parajuli, Andrzej Banburski-Fahey
2025 A* conf
DreamGarden: A Designer Assistant for Growing Games from a Single Prompt.
CHI
Sam Earle, Samyak Parajuli, Andrzej Banburski-Fahey
2025 J jnl
Enhancing Player Enjoyment with a Two-Tier DRL and LLM-Based Agent System for Fighting Games.
CoRR
Shouren Wang, Zehua Jiang, Fernando Sliva, Sam Earle, Julian Togelius
2025 J jnl
PCGRLLM: Large Language Model-Driven Reward Design for Procedural Content Generation Reinforcement Learning.
CoRR
In-Chang Baek, Sung-Hyun Kim, Sam Earle, Zehua Jiang, Jinha Noh, Julian Togelius, Kyung-Joong Kim
2025 J jnl
PuzzleJAX: A Benchmark for Reasoning and Learning.
CoRR
Sam Earle, Graham Todd, Yuchen Li, Ahmed Khalifa, Muhammad Umair Nasir, Zehua Jiang, Andrzej Banburski-Fahey, Julian Togelius
2025 C conf
ScriptDoctor: Automatic Generation of PuzzleScript Games via Large Language Models and Tree Search.
CoG
Sam Earle, Ahmed Khalifa, Muhammad Umair Nasir, Zehua Jiang, Graham Todd, Andrzej Banburski-Fahey, Julian Togelius
2025 J jnl
ScriptDoctor: Automatic Generation of PuzzleScript Games via Large Language Models and Tree Search.
CoRR
Sam Earle, Ahmed Khalifa, Muhammad Umair Nasir, Zehua Jiang, Graham Todd, Andrzej Banburski-Fahey, Julian Togelius
2025 J jnl
Video Game Level Design as a Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Problem.
CoRR
Sam Earle, Zehua Jiang, Eugene Vinitsky, Julian Togelius
2024 B conf
Amorphous Fortress: Exploring Emergent Behavior and Complexity in Multi-Agent 0-Player Games.
CEC
M Charity, Sam Earle, Dipika Rajesh, Mayu Wilson, Julian Togelius
2024 J jnl
Autoverse: An Evolvable Game Langugage for Learning Robust Embodied Agents.
CoRR
Sam Earle, Julian Togelius
2024 C conf
DreamCraft: Text-Guided Generation of Functional 3D Environments in Minecraft.
FDG
Sam Earle, Filippos Kokkinos, Yuhe Nie, Julian Togelius, Roberta Raileanu
2024 J jnl
DreamCraft: Text-Guided Generation of Functional 3D Environments in Minecraft.
CoRR
Sam Earle, Filippos Kokkinos, Yuhe Nie, Julian Togelius, Roberta Raileanu
2024 J jnl
DreamGarden: A Designer Assistant for Growing Games from a Single Prompt.
CoRR
Sam Earle, Samyak Parajuli, Andrzej Banburski-Fahey
2024 A conf
LLMatic: Neural Architecture Search Via Large Language Models And Quality Diversity Optimization.
GECCO
Muhammad Umair Nasir, Sam Earle, Julian Togelius, Steven James, Christopher W. Cleghorn
2024 J jnl
Large Language Models and Games: A Survey and Roadmap.
CoRR
Roberto Gallotta, Graham Todd, Marvin Zammit, Sam Earle, Antonios Liapis, Julian Togelius, Georgios N. Yannakakis
2024 J jnl
Making New Connections: LLMs as Puzzle Generators for The New York Times' Connections Word Game.
CoRR
Tim Merino, Sam Earle, Ryan Sudhakaran, Shyam Sudhakaran, Julian Togelius
2024 — conf
Making New Connections: LLMs as Puzzle Generators for the New York Times' Connections Word Game.
AIIDE
Tim Merino, Sam Earle, Ryan Sudhakaran, Shyam Sudhakaran, Julian Togelius
2024 C conf
Missed Connections: Lateral Thinking Puzzles for Large Language Models.
CoG
Graham Todd, Tim Merino, Sam Earle, Julian Togelius
2024 J jnl
Missed Connections: Lateral Thinking Puzzles for Large Language Models.
CoRR
Graham Todd, Timothy Merino, Sam Earle, Julian Togelius
2024 J jnl
PCGRL+: Scaling, Control and Generalization in Reinforcement Learning Level Generators.
CoRR
Sam Earle, Zehua Jiang, Julian Togelius
2024 C conf
Scaling, Control and Generalization in Reinforcement Learning Level Generators.
CoG
Sam Earle, Zehua Jiang, Julian Togelius
2023 J jnl
Amorphous Fortress: Observing Emergent Behavior in Multi-Agent FSMs.
CoRR
M Charity, Dipika Rajesh, Sam Earle, Julian Togelius
2023 C conf
Controllable Path of Destruction.
CoG
Matthew Siper, Sam Earle, Zehua Jiang, Ahmed Khalifa, Julian Togelius
2023 J jnl
Controllable Path of Destruction.
CoRR
Matthew Siper, Sam Earle, Zehua Jiang, Ahmed Khalifa, Julian Togelius
2023 J jnl
Evolutionary Machine Learning and Games.
CoRR
Julian Togelius, Ahmed Khalifa, Sam Earle, Michael Cerny Green, Lisa B. Soros
2023 J jnl
LLMatic: Neural Architecture Search via Large Language Models and Quality-Diversity Optimization.
CoRR
Muhammad Umair Nasir, Sam Earle, Julian Togelius, Steven James, Christopher W. Cleghorn
2023 C conf
Level Generation Through Large Language Models.
FDG
Graham Todd, Sam Earle, Muhammad Umair Nasir, Michael Cerny Green, Julian Togelius
2023 J jnl
Level Generation Through Large Language Models.
CoRR
Graham Todd, Sam Earle, Muhammad Umair Nasir, Michael Cerny Green, Julian Togelius
2023 J jnl
Pathfinding Neural Cellular Automata.
CoRR
Sam Earle, Ozlem Yildiz, Julian Togelius, Chinmay Hegde
2023 J jnl
Quality Diversity in the Amorphous Fortress (QD-AF): Evolving for Complexity in 0-Player Games.
CoRR
Sam Earle, M Charity, Dipika Rajesh, Mayu Wilson, Julian Togelius
2022 — conf
Generating Diverse Indoor Furniture Arrangements.
SIGGRAPH Posters
Ya-Chuan Hsu, Matthew C. Fontaine, Sam Earle, Maria Edwards, Julian Togelius, Stefanos Nikolaidis
2022 J jnl
Generating Diverse Indoor Furniture Arrangements.
CoRR
Ya-Chuan Hsu, Matthew C. Fontaine, Sam Earle, Maria Edwards, Julian Togelius, Stefanos Nikolaidis
2022 A conf
Illuminating diverse neural cellular automata for level generation.
GECCO
Sam Earle, Justin Snider, Matthew C. Fontaine, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Julian Togelius
2022 C conf
Learning Controllable 3D Level Generators.
FDG
Zehua Jiang, Sam Earle, Michael Cerny Green, Julian Togelius
2022 J jnl
Learning Controllable 3D Level Generators.
CoRR
Zehua Jiang, Sam Earle, Michael Cerny Green, Julian Togelius
2021 J jnl
Exploring open-ended gameplay features with Micro RollerCoaster Tycoon.
CoRR
Michael Cerny Green, Victoria Yen, Sam Earle, Dipika Rajesh, Maria Edwards, Lisa B. Soros
2021 J jnl
Illuminating Diverse Neural Cellular Automata for Level Generation.
CoRR
Sam Earle, Justin Snider, Matthew C. Fontaine, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Julian Togelius
2021 C conf
Learning Controllable Content Generators.
CoG
Sam Earle, Maria Edwards, Ahmed Khalifa, Philip Bontrager, Julian Togelius
2021 J jnl
Learning Controllable Content Generators.
CoRR
Sam Earle, Maria Edwards, Ahmed Khalifa, Philip Bontrager, Julian Togelius
2021 C conf
Video Games as a Testbed for Open-Ended Phenomena.
CoG
Sam Earle, Julian Togelius, Lisa B. Soros
2020 — conf
PCGRL: Procedural Content Generation via Reinforcement Learning.
AIIDE
Ahmed Khalifa, Philip Bontrager, Sam Earle, Julian Togelius
2020 J jnl
PCGRL: Procedural Content Generation via Reinforcement Learning.
CoRR
Ahmed Khalifa, Philip Bontrager, Sam Earle, Julian Togelius
2020 J jnl
Using Fractal Neural Networks to Play SimCity 1 and Conway's Game of Life at Variable Scales.
CoRR
Sam Earle