If Mark Nelson says the Institute of Digital Games - University of Malta climbed to the 6th place of technical game research institutions globally he must be right! So proud of this achievement and my awesome colleagues!

Do you want to get into research at the intersection of games & AI? Would you like to work with Georgios N. Yannakakis & myself in Malta? The Institute of Digital Games - University of Malta has an open call for PhD students, post-docs & programmers. Deadline to apply is 20 June & the call is here: um.edu.mt/__data/assets/…

I'm in Bolzano, Italy this week for ICCC'25 - the first in-person conference I'm attending since 2019. I'll try to live-tweet from the event on different threads, as there is breadth of interesting topics around computational creativity, generative art/sound/narrative & more!

Time for another celebration Institute of Digital Games - University of Malta🏅! IDG researchers Marvin Zammit Antonios Liapis Georgios N. Yannakakis received the Best Student Paper award at the ICCC'25 for their work on "Seeding Diversity in AI Art". Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2205.00804 #ArtificialIntelligence #research

Though FDG 2023 Conference '22 is still more than a month away, we're opening submissions for #FDG2023! First deadline is October 21 for Workshops & Panels! More information at the website: fdg2023.org/tracks/#worksh… fdg2023.org/tracks/#panel-… For the general CFP check: fdg2023.org/calls/

Interested in player affect modeling? AGAIN is the dataset you always wanted to have in order to test the generality of your player modeling algorithms! Proudly brought to you by David Melhart Antonios Liapis and me in our recent IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing paper👇

Excited to share our “Ethics of AI in Games” paper co-authored w/Julian Togelius holmgard Dikte Georgios N. Yannakakis, to be published in IEEE Trans on Affective Computing! We survey ethical pitfalls in game design and dev via the 4 phases of the Affective (Game) Loop: arxiv.org/abs/2305.07392

What can LLMs do in and for games? NPCs, narratives, game mastering, playing, level generation, new game mechanics... player modeling? And what's next? Institute of Digital Games - University of Malta and NYU Tandon Game Innovation Lab proudly present "Large Language Models and Games: A Survey and Roadmap"

An intriguing road ahead for games and AI. I was privileged to be part of this remarkable team looking into it. Here's what we (gallorob, Graham Todd, smearle, Antonios Liapis, Julian Togelius, Georgios N. Yannakakis, and myself) collectively had to say: arxiv.org/abs/2402.18659

This Friday at Evostar, Marvin Zammit is presenting our paper on MEliTA, a variant of the MAP-Elites evolutionary algorithm that is suited for multimodal creative problems (such as simultaneous image and text generation). Paper: antoniosliapis.com/papers/map_eli…

HollowFloor #releasedate is decided :) #HollowFloor will be released on 🥳🥳🥳 AUGUST 27th 🥳🥳🥳 #Wishlist the game on #Steam store.steampowered.com/app/2815150/Ho… Try the demo on @newgrounds newgrounds.com/portal/view/92… #indiegames #IndieGameDev #metroidvania #indiedev #demo #indie #gamedev

10 days until the #release of my #challenging #microvania #HollowFloor I need to post more about the release, so please help me with #retweet and #likes to get some #wishlists #metroidvania #exploration #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indie #indiedev #indiegame #indiegamedev

Hello world, would you help out with my research? Please fill in my survey here: forms.gle/CRywoErJ9UEyWx… It's a 'fun' quiz about AI-generated images and text. Participation is optional and completely anonymous. The survey takes between 10 and 15 min to complete. Thank you!!

We're iterating on our CrawLLM game generator, and we'd like to know how the generated visuals and generated text is consistent with an overall theme. Fill in our 15-minute (anonymous) questionnaire (very light, with plenty of images) here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Hey everyone, I'm conducting research on using Stable Diffusion to create video game enemy sprites I compiled a questionnaire and would love your input. It should only take about 10 minutes of your time. Survey link: Survey link: forms.gle/SEPd8uJ7H8moT8…

I need a few more participants to rate the images from our CrawLLM Game Generator for my research. It takes around 10 to 15 min and is completely anonymous. Survey link here: forms.gle/8tg5FE1zgCB8YV…

My new improv-oriented mobile game is out now on Android! Get it here: nightparadeof100demons.com . NIGHT PARADE OF 100 DEMONS is a creative musical interpretation of faithfully reproduced yokai myths, and a joyful parade of raucous improvisation. youtu.be/dcTXouEUof4?si…

I'll be hosting this event at the IIC Valletta on Oct 22nd! Me and Irene Incarico will have a conversation about two recent books by Riccardo Fassone and Stefano Gualeni, together with the authors. In Italiano! Ci vediamo lì!