Michael Cook

According to our database, Michael Cook authored at least 74 papers between 2011 and 2024.

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2024

On the Evaluation of Procedural Level Generation Systems.

Oliver Withington, Michael Cook, Laurissa Tokarchuk

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2024

"Hunt Takes Hare": Theming Games Through Game-Word Vector Translation.

Younès Rabii, Michael Cook

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2024

How To Save A World: The Go-Along Interview as Game Preservation Methodology in Wurm Online.

Florence Smith Nicholls, Michael Cook

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2024

Experiments in Motivating Exploratory Agents.

Bobby Khaleque, Michael Cook, Jeremy Gow

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2024

The Art of Programming: Challenges in Generating Code for Creative Applications.

Michael Cook

Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Conference on AI-Powered Software, 2024

2023

Trash to Treasure: Using text-to-image models to inform the design of physical artefacts.

Amy Smith, Hope Schroeder, Ziv Epstein, Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Andrew Lippman

CoRR, 2023

AI-Generated Imagery: A New Era for the 'Readymade'.

Amy Smith, Michael Cook

Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Art Papers, 2023

Why Oatmeal is Cheap: Kolmogorov Complexity and Procedural Generation.

Younès Rabii, Michael Cook

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2023

"That Darned Sandstorm": A Study of Procedural Generation through Archaeological Storytelling.

Florence Smith Nicholls, Michael Cook

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2023

2022

Hyperstate Space Graphs.

Michael Cook, Azalea Raad

IEEE Trans. Games, 2022

Danesh: Interactive Tools for Understanding Procedural Content Generators.

Michael Cook, Jeremy Gow, Gillian Smith, Simon Colton

IEEE Trans. Games, 2022

Optimists at Heart: Why Do We Research Game AI? (Extended Version).

Michael Cook

CoRR, 2022

Impressions of the GDMC AI Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft.

Christoph Salge, Claus Aranha, Adrian Brightmoore, Sean Butler, Rodrigo De Moura Canaan, Michael Cook, Michael Cerny Green, Hagen Fischer, Christian Guckelsberger, Jupiter Hadley, Jean-Baptiste Hervé, Mark Richard Johnson, Quinn Kybartas, David Mason, Mike Preuss, Tristan Smith, Ruck Thawonmas, Julian Togelius

Proceedings of the FDG '22: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2022

The Dark Souls of Archaeology: Recording Elden Ring.

Florence Smith Nicholls, Michael Cook

Proceedings of the FDG '22: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2022

Optimists at Heart: Why Do We Research Game AI?

Michael Cook

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, CoG 2022, Beijing, 2022

Puck: A Slow and Personal Automated Game Designer.

Michael Cook

Proceedings of the Eighteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2022

2021

The Road Less Travelled: Trying And Failing To Generate Walking Simulators.

Michael Cook

CoRR, 2021

Monte Carlo Tree Search With Reversibility Compression.

Michael Cook

Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2021

The Social Responsibility of Game AI.

Michael Cook

Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2021

Revealing Game Dynamics via Word Embeddings of Gameplay Data.

Younès Rabii, Michael Cook

Proceedings of the Seventeenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2021

Challenges in Generating Juice Effects for Automatically Designed Games.

Mads Johansen, Michael Cook

Proceedings of the Seventeenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2021

2020

Generative Forensics: Procedural Generation and Information Games.

Michael Cook

CoRR, 2020

Creativity Theatre for Demonstrable Computational Creativity.

Simon Colton, Jon McCormack, Michael Cook, Sebastian Berns

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2020

Tabletop Roleplaying Games as Procedural Content Generators.

Matthew Guzdial, Devi Acharya, Max Kreminski, Michael Cook, Mirjam Eladhari, Antonios Liapis, Anne Sullivan

Proceedings of the FDG '20: International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2020

Adapting and Enhancing Evolutionary Art for Casual Creation.

Simon Colton, Jon McCormack, Sebastian Berns, Elena Petrovskaya, Michael Cook

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, 2020

Software Engineering For Automated Game Design.

Michael Cook

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2020

Procedural Generation and Information Games.

Michael Cook

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2020

2019

Guest Editorial Special Issue on AI-Based and AI-Assisted Game Design.

Antonios Liapis, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Michael Cook, Simon Colton

IEEE Trans. Games, 2019

The HR3 System for Automatic Code Generation in Creative Settings.

Simon Colton, Alison Pease, Michael Cook, Chunyang Chen

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2019

Framing In Computational Creativity - A Survey And Taxonomy.

Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Alison Pease, Maria Teresa Llano

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2019

Hyperstate Space Graphs for Automated Game Analysis.

Michael Cook, Azalea Raad

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2019

General Analytical Techniques For Parameter-Based Procedural Content Generators.

Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Jeremy Gow, Gillian Smith

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2019

2018

Rapid game jams with fluidic games: A user study & design methodology.

Swen E. Gaudl, Mark J. Nelson, Simon Colton, Rob Saunders, Edward Jack Powley, Blanca Pérez Ferrer, Peter Ivey, Michael Cook

Entertain. Comput., 2018

Exploring Novel Game Spaces with Fluidic Games.

Swen E. Gaudl, Mark J. Nelson, Simon Colton, Rob Saunders, Edward Jack Powley, Peter Ivey, Blanca Pérez Ferrer, Michael Cook

CoRR, 2018

Investigating and Automating the Creative Act of Software Engineering: A Position Paper.

Edward J. Powley, Simon Colton, Michael Cook

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2018

A Parameter-Space Design Methodology for Casual Creators.

Peter Ivey, Blanca Pérez Ferrer, Rob Saunders, Swen E. Gaudl, Edward J. Powley, Mark J. Nelson, Simon Colton, Michael Cook

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2018

Neighbouring Communities: Interaction, Lessons and Opportunities.

Michael Cook, Simon Colton

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2018

Redesigning Computationally Creative Systems For Continuous Creation.

Michael Cook, Simon Colton

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2018

Tarot-based narrative generation.

Anne Sullivan, Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari, Michael Cook

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2018

Inferring Design Constraints From Game Ruleset Analysis.

Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Azalea Raad

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2018

2017

The ANGELINA Videogame Design System - Part II.

Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Jeremy Gow

IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games, 2017

The ANGELINA Videogame Design System - Part I.

Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Jeremy Gow

IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games, 2017

Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games: AI-Driven Game Design (Dagstuhl Seminar 17471).

Pieter Spronck, Elisabeth André, Michael Cook, Mike Preuß

Dagstuhl Reports, 2017

Off The Beaten Lane: AI Challenges In MOBAs Beyond Player Control.

Michael Cook, Adam Summerville, Simon Colton

CoRR, 2017

Fluidic Games in Cultural Contexts.

Mark J. Nelson, Swen E. Gaudl, Simon Colton, Edward Jack Powley, Blanca Pérez Ferrer, Rob Saunders, Peter Ivey, Michael Cook

Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2017

Mixed-Initiative Approaches to On-Device Mobile Game Design.

Mark J. Nelson, Simon Colton, Edward Jack Powley, Swen E. Gaudl, Peter Ivey, Rob Saunders, Blanca Pérez Ferrer, Michael Cook

Proceedings of the CHI'17 Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Creative Interfaces co-located with ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017), 2017

Wevva: Democratising Game Design.

Edward Jack Powley, Mark J. Nelson, Swen E. Gaudl, Simon Colton, Blanca Pérez Ferrer, Rob Saunders, Peter Ivey, Michael Cook

Proceedings of the Thirteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-17), 2017

A Vision for Continuous Automated Game Design.

Michael Cook

Proceedings of the Workshops of the Thirteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2017

2016

Feminism and procedural content generation: toward a collaborative politics of computational creativity.

Amanda Phillips, Gillian Smith, Michael Cook, Tanya Short

Digit. Creativity, 2016

PCG-Based Game Design Patterns.

Michael Cook, Mirjam Eladhari, Andy Nealen, Mike Treanor, Eddy Boxerman, Alex Jaffe, Paul Sottosanti, Steve Swink

CoRR, 2016

The AIIDE 2015 Workshop Program.

Camille Barot, Michael Buro, Michael Cook, Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari, Boyang Li, Antonios Liapis, Magnus Johansson, Josh McCoy, Santiago Ontañón, Jonathan P. Rowe, Emmett Tomai, Harko Verhagen, Alexander Zook

AI Mag., 2016

Towards the automatic optimisation of procedural content generators.

Michael Cook, Jeremy Gow, Simon Colton

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2016

Playable Experiences at AIIDE 2016.

Alexander E. Zook, Michael Cook, Eric Butler, Kristin Siu, Matthew Guzdial, Mark O. Riedl, James Owen Ryan, Ben Samuel, Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Proceedings of the Twelfth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2016

2015

Co-operative coevolution for computational creativity: a case study in videogame design.

Michael Cook

PhD thesis, 2015

Reports of the Workshops Held at the Tenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment.

Tiffany Barnes, Oliver Bown, Michael Buro, Michael Cook, Arne Eigenfeldt, Héctor Muñoz-Avila, Santiago Ontañón, Philippe Pasquier, Noriko Tomuro, Robert Michael Young, Alexander Zook

AI Mag., 2015

Generating Code For Expressing Simple Preferences: Moving On From Hardcoding And Randomness.

Michael Cook, Simon Colton

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2015

Make Something That Makes Something: A Report On The First Procedural Generation Jam.

Michael Cook

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2015

The Painting Fool Sees! New Projects with the Automated Painter.

Simon Colton, Jakob Halskov, Dan Ventura, Ian Gouldstone, Michael Cook, Blanca Pérez Ferrer

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2015

AI-based Game Design Patterns.

Mike Treanor, Alexander Zook, Mirjam P. Eladhari, Julian Togelius, Gillian Smith, Michael Cook, Tommy Thompson, Brian Magerko, John Levine, Adam M. Smith

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2015

Formalizing Non-Formalism: Breaking the Rules of Automated Game Design.

Michael Cook, Gillian Smith

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2015

AI-based Games: Contrabot and What Did You Do?

Michael Cook, Mirjam Eladhari, Adam M. Smith, Gillian Smith, Tommy Thompson, Julian Togelius, Alexander Zook

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2015

Playable Experiences at AIIDE 2015.

Michael Cook, Squirrel Eiserloh, Justus Robertson, Robert Michael Young, Tommy Thompson, David Churchill, Martin Cerný, Sergio Poo Hernandez, Vadim Bulitko

Proceedings of the Eleventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2015

2014

Workshops Held at the Ninth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE): A Report.

Antonios Liapis, Michael Cook, Adam M. Smith, Gillian Smith, Alexander Zook, Mei Si, Marc Cavazza, Philippe Pasquier

AI Mag., 2014

Ludus Ex Machina: Building A 3D Game Designer That Competes Alongside Humans.

Michael Cook, Simon Colton

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2014

Assessing Progress in Building Autonomously Creative Systems.

Simon Colton, Alison Pease, Joseph Corneli, Michael Cook

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2014

Playable Experiences at AIIDE 2014.

Nathan R. Sturtevant, Jeff Orkin, Robert Zubek, Michael Cook, Stephen G. Ware, Christian Stith, Robert Michael Young, Phillip Wright, Squirrel (Brian) Eiserloh, Alejandro Ramirez-Sanabria, Vadim Bulitko, Kieran Lord

Proceedings of the Tenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2014

2013

Creativity in code: generating rules for video games.

Michael Cook

XRDS, 2013

Nobody's A Critic: On The Evaluation Of Creative Code Generators - A Case Study In Video Game Design.

Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Jeremy Gow

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2013

Mechanic Miner: Reflection-Driven Game Mechanic Discovery and Level Design.

Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Azalea Raad, Jeremy Gow

Proceedings of the Applications of Evolutionary Computation - 16th European Conference, 2013

2012

Initial Results from Co-operative Co-evolution for Automated Platformer Design.

Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Jeremy Gow

Proceedings of the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, 2012

Aesthetic Considerations for Automated Platformer Design.

Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Alison Pease

Proceedings of the Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2012

2011

Automated Collage Generation - With More Intent.

Michael Cook, Simon Colton

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2011

Ludic Considerations of Tablet-Based Evo-Art.

Simon Colton, Michael Cook, Azalea Raad

Proceedings of the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, 2011

Multi-faceted evolution of simple arcade games.

Michael Cook, Simon Colton

Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2011