The paper evaluates how well current Large Language Models can translate natural language goals, written by video game testers, into well‑formed PDDL targets for classical planning. Using a carefully designed prompt template, six state‑of‑the‑art LLMs were tested on correctness, speed, and error tendencies with real‑world benchmarks. All models achieved high correctness (>92%), with Gemini 2.5 Flash reaching 96% accuracy and the fewest false positives, while GPT‑4.1 was the fastest, yet differences in performance and occasional failures due to ambiguity and domain limits remain.
By Tomas Balyo, Lukas Chrpa, G. Michael Youngblood
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...
By Kun Chen, Haorong Hong, Peizhong Gao, Jianfeng Lin, Tongxu Luo, Yuxuan Xie, Chenxu Liu, Jieling He, Zhongyuan Liu, Zeno Zeng
SWE-Game is a benchmark comprising 247 tasks based on 41 Godot games across 13 gameplay categories, testing coding agents on tasks such as brief-to-game, design-document implementation, skeleton completion, fault repair, and Godot-to-Unity porting. Evaluation uses engine-state checks, replay of certified reference inputs, and agent-authored demonstrations to judge mechanic correctness, playability, and post-repair behavior, supplemented by vision‑language rubrics for presentation. Across six models, Opus5 leads but overall scores stay below 60/100, highlighting common issues like omitted requirements and gameplay logic errors.
By Xiaoyu Chen, Lai Wei, Jin Wang, Xiangyu Zou, Ruochen Fan, Enze Luo, Mingzhe Yao, Jiahui Zhu, Yuhua Wen, Linghe Kong, Weiran Huang
arXiv:2608. 16196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized game generation requires inferring a player's abilities and behavioral style from how they play.
By Yifan Lu, Xiaopeng Yuan, Haohan Wang
arXiv:2402.14879v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: To enhance immersion and engagement in video games, the design of Affective Non-Player Characters (ANPCs) is a key focus for researchers and...
By Lawrence J. Klinkert, Stephanie Buongiorno, Corey Clark
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...
By Yiran Wang, Xingyilang Yin, Junfu Pu, Guangzhi Wang, Kaifeng Li, Mingyu Ouyang, Huiqiang Sun, Lingen Li, Cheng Cheng, Wangbo Yu, Honghao Chen, Xiaodong Cun, Chi-Man Pun, Zhiguo Cao, Ying Shan
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.
By Bovard Doerschuk-Tiberi, Yao Yan, Justin Chiu, Hann Wang, Timothy Chung, Martyna Plomecka, John Schultz, Jon Lipovetz, Clayton Drazner, Yuchen Zhuang, Jaimie Hwang, Nate Keating, Riley Jones, Andrew Lee, Oran Kelly, Ian Gemp, Michael Aaron, Laurel Prince, Kate Larson, Jeff Moser, Harrison Jobe, Chad Woodford, Siqi Liu, Andrew Wang, Bo Chang, Christopher D'Mello, Diane Chaleff, Addison Howard, Johnny Yip, Chuck Sugnet, Antonio Gulli, Meghan O'Connell, Will Cukierski, Nenad Tomasev, Dima Yeroshenko, Kinjal Parekh, Roxanne Daniel, Marc Lanctot, Domino Weir, Elsa Dong, Daniel Hennes, Melissa Nalubwama, Robert Fraser, Ryan Trostle, Jun Peng, Tom Mason, Lloyd Hightower, Chiamaka Chukwuka, Yuexiang Zhai, Phoebe Kirk, Yi Su, Yuting Han, Jie Ren, Chris Prichard, Sahand Sharifzadeh, Karim Hakimzadeh, DJ Sterling, Meg Risdal, Kate Olszewska, Ya Xu, Orhan Firat, Minmin Chen
arXiv:2404. 02039v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Game environments provide rich, controllable settings that stimulate many aspects of real-world complexity.
By Sihao Hu, Tiansheng Huang, Gaowen Liu, Ramana Rao Kompella, Fatih Ilhan, Selim Furkan Tekin, Yichang Xu, Zachary Yahn, Ling Liu
The paper presents the first dataset that captures how humans learn and use mechanisms in unfamiliar environments, using ARC‑AGI‑3 as a testbed. It includes 144 trajectories from 64 participants across 25 public games, each paired with time‑synchronized actions and think‑aloud audio, and 250 trajectories from large language model agents with and without harnesses. The dataset is annotated for mechanism triggers, action purposes, errors, and recovery, enabling a comparison of human and LLM cognition, highlighting differences in hypothesis testing, exploration, and use of qualitative representations.
By Shuzhi Liu, Archana Warrier, Dat Nguyen, Chengqi Zheng, Kevin Ellis, Yewen Pu
Kepler is an open‑source harness that represents hypotheses as executable world models and validates them through retrospective transition checks and conditional prediction checks. In the ARC‑AGI‑3 benchmark, a frozen Claude Opus 5 configuration achieved a perfect 100.00 RHAE on all 25 public games without per‑game model selection or score‑conditioned reruns, and matched or outperformed median‑human action counts on 181 of 183 levels. The study also identified three evaluation failures and highlighted that public‑set score alone has limited discriminative value, advocating for first‑attempt, cost‑conditioned, and verification‑aware reporting.
whyItMatters":"The results demonstrate that a purely score‑based evaluation can be misleading, underscoring the need for more rigorous, cost‑aware, and verification‑aware metrics in AI benchmark assessments."
By Wensen Wu
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...
By Zijun Lin, Zhiyang Deng, Yuzhe Wu, Bihan Wen, Yeying Jin
arXiv:2509. 17192v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM-based social simulations can make a generated transcript look like a single behavioral signal, but the model behind that transcript may be doing several different jobs: choosing what an actor says or does, deciding what happens after an action, or both.
By Glenn Matlin, Isaac Song, Yixiong Hao, Parv Mahajan, Evan Montoya, Ryan Bard, Stuart R. Topp, Anthony Wen-Ming Zang, Mohammed Rehan Parwani, Soham Shetty, Mark Riedl