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< Back Mark the Date! iGGi Con 2024 - 11+12 Sep The iGGi Conference is the annual showcase of our 60+ PhD Researchers, allowing a birds-eye view into their work, and a chance to bring academic research, innovation and the games industry together. Following the success of the conferences in 2022 and 2023, the iGGi Con 2024 will take place at the University of York. More information to follow in a few months. Previous 20 Oct 2023 Next

< Back - Meet me @ Develop:Brighton 2026 - Doruk Balcı University of York iGGi PG Researcher Available for placement I am a game maker interested in the relationship between player creativity and game design. My work is centered around the transformative capabilities of players to invent their own metagames and play-practices, and how to support this through game design. My other interests include: drawing, literature, making zines and browser games, and playing with tools I don’t really understand. Designing for Appropriative Play How do we make games which we want to be messed with, changed fundamentally beyond our expectations in play? How do we make up rules that are intended to be bent, changed or broken? Why would we want that? Play practices that transform structures, subvert expectations and re-define their contexts are celebrated in many aspects of culture and can lead to personal and meaningful experiences. Yet research on this topic from a game design perspective has been scarce. In my project, I am exploring how we can design game systems that invite players to assume ownership of their play-practices through exploring alternative paradigms of game design. Email doruk.balci@york.ac.uk Website LinkedIn Mastodon BlueSky GitHub Other Link Supervisor: Dr Jo Iacovides Digital Playground: The Hidden Politics of Children's Online Play Spaces, Virtual Worlds and Connected Games Game Rules as Player Tools: Introspective Rulebook Method Player Discretion is Advised: Designing for Rule-Changing Play Themes Design & Development Player Research - Previous Next

< Back Dr James Goodman Queen Mary University of London iGGi Alum James has picked up degrees in Chemistry, History, Mathematics, Business Administration and Machine Learning. After a career in Consultancy and IT Project Management he is now finally doing the research he always wanted to. James is interested in opponent modelling, theory of mind and strategic communication in multi-player games, and how statistical forward planning can be used in modern tabletop board-games (or other turn-based environments). With a constrained budget, how much time should an agent spend thinking about it's own plan versus thinking about what other players might be doing to get in the way. How does this balance vary across different games? His secondary research interests are in using AI-playtesting as a tool for game-balancing and game-design. Email james.goodman@qmul.ac.uk Website LinkedIn Mastodon BlueSky GitHub Other Link Supervisors: Dr Diego Pérez-Liébana Prof. Simon Lucas Featured Publication(s): Dice, Cards, Action! The Analysis, Play and Design of MultiplayerTabletop Board Games with Monte Carlo Tree Search From code to play: Benchmarking program search for games using large language models LLM-based Program Search for Games Seeding for Success: Skill and Stochasticity in Tabletop Games From Code to Play: Benchmarking Program Search for Games Using Large Language Models Skill Depth in Tabletop Board Games Measuring Randomness in Tabletop Games A case study in AI-assisted board game design Following the leader in multiplayer tabletop games PyTAG: Challenges and Opportunities for Reinforcement Learning in Tabletop Games MultiTree MCTS in Tabletop Games Visualizing Multiplayer Game Spaces TAG: Terraforming Mars Fingerprinting tabletop games AI and Wargaming Metagame Autobalancing for Competitive Multiplayer Games Does it matter how well I know what you’re thinking? Opponent Modelling in an RTS game Weighting NTBEA for game AI optimisation Re-determinizing MCTS in Hanabi Noise reduction and targeted exploration in imitation learning for abstract meaning representation parsing UCL+ Sheffield at SemEval-2016 Task 8: Imitation learning for AMR parsing with an alpha-bound Themes Design & Development Game AI - Previous Next