CriticaLLM is a fully automated Game Master framework that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to run entire tabletop role‑playing games, from story creation to managing exploration and combat. The paper outlines key components LLMs should exhibit for TTRPGs and evaluates the system with real players, examining plot and antagonist diversity across four LLMs of different sizes. The results suggest that CriticaLLM is a promising option for automating TTRPG gameplay.
arXiv:2608.21833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent large language models (LLMs) can operate as coding agents that build complete games from natural language requests. Game development is especial...
GameGo is a framework that converts short game ideas into detailed Product Requirements Documents using industry practices, enabling coding agents to generate complete games from sparse user queries. It employs dynamic compression to keep essential gameplay constraints while allowing design flexibility. The authors built GameGoData with over 55,000 development trajectories and GameGoBench with 124 game queries, training GameGoCoder to outperform baselines and match leading models on gamedev benchmarks.
arXiv:2606. 16014v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many games rely on storytelling combined with systems that track levelling, NPC behaviour, and consequence simulation; bridging tightly-authored narrative with deeply-simulated worlds -- most acute in sandbox and open-world settings -- has been prohibitively expensive.
arXiv:2404. 02039v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Game environments provide rich, controllable settings that stimulate many aspects of real-world complexity.
arXiv:2609.25001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern video games provide a measurable testbed for AI models, combining abilities of visual understanding, instruction decomposition, goal planning, a...
The paper introduces Forking Garden, a branching game generation system that threads narrative archetype as a persistent semantic signal throughout the generation pipeline. Narrative progression is modeled with soft Rise/Fall states, guiding the creation of plot nodes, structural constraints, encounter composition, objectives, rewards, and difficulty adaptation. Experiments across ten storylines show that the system produces distinct archetypal trajectories, improves entity diversity, and that Rise/Fall distinctions remain meaningful during play, aiding both narrative understanding and creator interpretation.
arXiv:2609.09059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While many video-game environments (VGEs) have played crucial roles in advancing reinforcement learning (RL), developing novel VGEs or modifying existi...
Game Arena is an open, continuously expanding platform that evaluates large language models through competitive games, allowing head‑to‑head matchups in structured environments. Unlike static benchmarks, it prevents performance saturation by increasing gameplay difficulty as models improve. The report outlines the infrastructure and presents three pilot games—Chess, Poker, and Werewolf—covering perfect information, imperfect information, and multiplayer settings, and details evaluation metrics and competition results.
The paper introduces GUI agents for continual game generation, presenting PlaytestArena—a benchmark of 200 browser-based game-generation tasks with rubrics for in‑play behavior—and Play2Code, an iterative framework where a game agent and a rubric‑blind GUI playtester refine games through shared memory. Play2Code achieves a 66.8% rubric pass rate, surpassing baseline methods by 37.1 and 14.6 points, and shows consistent score improvement across refinement rounds. The study demonstrates that GUI playtesting provides actionable, traceable feedback that can guide interactive code generation.
arXiv:2609.14677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have changed the way people engage with stories. Drawing on public chatbot logs, we can see that when users generate stori...
We present LingBot-World 2. 0 (also known as LingBot-World-Infinity), an advanced iteration of LingBot-World featuring four distinct upgrades.
arXiv:2609.25652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent game world models support realistic visual simulation and interactive gameplay based on player inputs. However, they typically learn environment...