arXiv AI

Representing and Generating Levels Over Time through Playtrace Reconstructive Partitioning

arXiv:2607. 12097v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video games are a dynamic medium experienced over time.

arXiv AI
Jul 14

MAGIC: Transition-Aware Generation of Navigable Multi-Scene Game Worlds with Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 11594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-scene navigation (clearing an objective in one bounded space and then crossing a portal into the next) is a defining feature of contemporary 3D games, but authoring it is laborious: every portal must have consistent endpoints on both sides, each interior must remain navigable once it is furnished, and the resulting connectivity must be kept consistent across many files.

By Tsz Hei Fan, Choi Wing Fung, Yuxuan Wan, Shuqing Li, Michael R. Lyu
arXiv AI
Jul 3

Evolutionary Wave Function Collapse

arXiv:2607. 02082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wave Function Collapse (WFC) is a widely used procedural content generation method that learns local adjacency constraints from example inputs to generate larger outputs.

By Dipika Rajesh, Ahmed Khalifa, Julian Togelius
arXiv AI
Aug 7

WorldClaw: Agentic 3D Open-World Generation at Scale

arXiv:2608. 05248v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating large-scale, freely explorable 3D worlds from open-ended text remains challenging because a system must jointly maintain global spatial coherence, rich local content, and explicit assets suitable for downstream editing and reuse.

By Chunchao Guo, Jinpeng Li, Yang Li, Zilong Huang
arXiv AI
Jun 16

Orchestrated Reality: From Role-Play to Living, Playable Game Worlds -- LLM-Driven World Simulation as a Parameterized-Action POMDP

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.

By Yuhang Huang, Chenmiao Li, Chaowei Fang
arXiv AI
Jun 12

IVIE: A Neuro-symbolic Approach to Incremental and Validated Generation of Interactive Fiction Worlds

arXiv:2606. 13348v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computational creativity in Interactive Fiction faces a fundamental tension: Large Language Models (LLM) may produce creative narratives but struggle with world coherence, while symbolic systems ensure consistency but lack creative flexibility.

By Micaela Vaucher, Santiago Silveira, Santiago G\'ongora, Luis Chiruzzo
arXiv AI
Jul 17

SAGA: Scene-Aware, Goal-Evolving Agents for Long-Horizon Strategy Game Planning

arXiv:2606. 29932v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon strategic planning in complex strategy games requires coordinating tightly coupled decision domains, including technology, economy, diplomacy, and military, across hundreds of turns under imperfect information.

By Tianyu Jin, Shuo Chen, Yida Wang, Liuyu Xiang, Yingzhuo Liu, Zhiyao Jiang, Yexin Li, Peipei Li, Zhaofeng He
arXiv AI
Jul 14

People use fast and flat simulation to reason about new games

arXiv:2510. 11503v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Games have long been a microcosm for studying planning and reasoning in both natural and artificial intelligence (AI), often focusing on expert-level or even super-human play.

By Katherine M. Collins, Cedegao E. Zhang, Lionel Wong, Mauricio Barba da Costa, Graham Todd, Adrian Weller, Samuel J. Cheyette, Thomas L. Griffiths, Joshua B. Tenenbaum