EXAG-INT 2025
Experimental AI in Games and Intelligent Narrative Technologies 2025

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: For Experimental AI in Games (EXAG), there were 28 papers submitted for peer-review. Out of these, 20 papers were accepted and 19 were included in this volume. For Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT), there were 3 papers submitted for peer-review. Out of these, 2 papers were accepted and included in this volume. In total, there were 31 papers submitted for peer-review. Out of these, 21 papers were included in this volume, 14 as regular papers and 7 as short papers.

Experimental AI in Games (EXAG)

• We Call This Controller Skip: AI for Speedrunning
  Michael Cook, M Charity, Maren Awiszus, Filippo Carnovalini, Alexander Dockhorn
• PCG-SAF: Procedural Content Generation via Self-Assembling Figures for Tabletop Games
  Fiona Shyne, Seth Cooper
• Narrative-to-Scene Generation: An LLM-Driven Pipeline for 2D Game Environments
  Yi-Chun Chen, Arnav Jhala
• Detecting Neural Network Driven Bots in Super Mario Bros
  Caleb Cavilla, Jonathan Hudson
• Using Exploratory Agents to Evaluate Game Environments
  Bobby Khaleque, Mike Cook, Jeremy Gow
• Pretraining Graph State Encoders for microRTS using Graph Self-Supervised Learning
  Pavan Kantharaju
• Evaluating the Impact of MDP-Based Level Assembly on Player Experience
  Colan Biemer, Seth Cooper
• Playtrace Arc Search: A Tool to Explore and Evaluate Large Spaces of Playtrace Metrics Through User-Defined Curves
  Samuel Shields, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Edward F. Melcer
• Controllable, Demographically-Guided Character Generation using Stochastic Logic Programming
  Ian Horswill
• Unifying Behavior Trees and Logic Programming
  Samuel Hill, Ian Horswill
• A Markovian Framing of WaveFunctionCollapse for Procedurally Generating Aesthetically Complex Environments
  Franklin Yiu, Mohan Lu, Nina Li, Kevin Joseph, Tianxu Zhang, Julian Togelius, Timothy Merino, Sam Earle
• Procedural Content Generation in Minecraft via Disentangled Representation Learning Models
  Tim Merino, Yifan Zhang, Julian Togelius
• Voxel-Based Spatio-Temporal Visualization of Gameplay Traces with Anomaly Detection (short paper)
  Ling Liu, Colan Biemer, Günter Wallner, Seth Cooper
• Towards Cognitive-Plausible Explanations for Board Game Agents with Genetic Programming (short paper)
  Manuel Eberhardinger, Florian Rupp, Florian Richoux, Johannes Maucher, Setareh Maghsudi
• Generating Three-Star System Puzzles using Solution Enumeration Fitness for a Lattice Protein Folding Game (short paper)
  Yaejie Kwon, Fiona Shyne, Seth Cooper
• Procedural Level Generation via Program Inversion (short paper)
  Harper Noteboom, Kalyani Nair, Seth Cooper
• A Constraint-Based Graph Grammar Approach Unifying Level and Playthrough Generation (short paper)
  Seth Cooper, Mahsa Bazzaz
• Quest to Dungeon (QtD): Towards a Tool that Supports Collaboration between Narrative and Level Designers (short paper)
  Oscar Boutani, Sam Shariati, Alberto Alvarez
• The Nintendo Artificial Neural Network System (short paper)
  Carmine Guida, Lauren Demaio

Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT)

• Designing a Modular, Scalable Benchmark for Narrative Experience Management
  Molly Siler, Stephen G. Ware, Gage Birchmeier, Mira Fisher, Lasantha Senanayake
• Amorphous Interpretations: Diverse Narrative Generation for Open-Ended Simulation Environments
  Dipika Rajesh, Julian Togelius, M Charity