IEEE Transactions on Games, Volume 17, Issue 4, December 2025

1) A Survey on the Development of Human-Centered Artificial Agents for Fighting Games

Author(s): Martinho Tavares, João M. Carvalho, Armando J. Pinho

Pages: 839 - 858

2) Rediscovering the Past: Serious Games for Archaeology

Author(s): Vittorio Murtas, Vincenzo Lombardo

Pages: 859 - 872

3) A Comprehensive Review of Multiagent Reinforcement Learning in Video Games

Author(s): Zhengyang Li, Qijin Ji, Xinghong Ling, Quan Liu

Pages: 873 - 892

4) Gamifying Cultural Immersion: Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality in City Heritage

Author(s): Filippo Sanfilippo, Marius Tataru, Minh Tuan Hua, Inge Johan Straumsøy Johansson, Diana Andone

Pages: 893 - 911

5) Combining Tree Search With Value Prediction Models Capable of Estimating Their Uncertainty

Author(s): Maciej Świechowski

Pages: 912 - 922

6) From Generation to Gameplay: Authoring Race Tracks With Repulsive Curves

Author(s): Lasse Henrich, Falko Kötter

Pages: 923 - 932

7) Harnessing Language for Coordination: A Framework and Benchmark for LLM-Driven Multiagent Control

Author(s): Timothée Anne, Noah Syrkis, Meriem Elhosni, Florian Turati, Franck Legendre, Alain Jaquier, Sebastian Risi

Pages: 933 - 943

8) Ten-Scenarios of Tablet-Based Virtual Environment Game for Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in iRBD Patients

Author(s): Jaehwan You, Jiwoong Heo, Jun-Sang Sunwoo, Ki-Young Jung, Kwanguk Kim

Pages: 944 - 953

9) AutoGT: Automatic Generation of Game Trees for Algorithm Benchmarking

Author(s): Jan Karwowski, Maciej Świechowski, Jacek Mańdziuk

Pages: 954 - 964

10) The Game Boy Learning Environment

Author(s): Edoardo Fazzari, Donato Romano, Fabrizio Falchi, Cesare Stefanini

Pages: 965 - 974

11) Exp3.P-Based Autonomous Decision Algorithm Against Nonstationary Opponents With Partially Known Policies

Author(s): Jin Zhu, Chunhui Du, Jiacheng Chen, Lei Huang, Geir E. Dullerud

Pages: 975 - 988

12) PandaSkill—Player Performance and Skill Rating in Esports: Application to League of Legends

Author(s): Maxime De Bois, Flora Parmentier, Raphaël Puget, Matthew Tanti, Jordan Peltier

Pages: 989 - 1002

13) A Modular Framework for Automated Evaluation of Procedural Content Generation in Serious Games With Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents

Author(s): Eleftherios Kalafatis, Konstantinos Mitsis, Konstantia Zarkogianni, Maria Athanasiou, Konstantina Nikita

Pages: 1003 - 1012

14) Novelty in Monte Carlo Tree Search

Author(s): Hendrik Baier, Michael Kaisers

Pages: 1013 - 1023

15) A Novel BS-UCT Algorithm With Deep Reinforcement Learning for the Game EWN

Author(s): Wenzhong Xu, Zhuoxuan Li, Yiding Cao, Xinli Shi, Jinde Cao

Pages: 1024 - 1034

16) Exploring Emotional Intelligence Across Job Roles in Video Game Development Teams

Author(s): Stefano Lambiase

Pages: 1035 - 1045

17) Human-Like Bots for Tactical Shooters Using Compute-Efficient Sensors

Author(s): Niels Justesen, Maria Kaselimi, Sam Snodgrass, Miruna Vozaru, Matthew Schlegel, Jonas Wingren, Gabriella A. B. Barros, Tobias Mahlmann, Shyam Sudhakaran, Wesley Kerr, Albert Wang, Christoffer Holmgård, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Sebastian Risi, Julian Togelius

Pages: 1046 - 1059

18) Evaluating a VR Game Featuring Optical Illusion Challenges: A Study on Workload, VR Sickness, and User Experience

Author(s): Louis Nisiotis, Konstantinos Elia

Pages: 1060 - 1069

19) Formal Modeling and Analysis of Slot Machines

Author(s): Jan Friso Groote, Sander van Heesch, Matthias Volk

Pages: 1070 - 1083

20) Seamless Tutorial: Contextual State Transition Generation Based on Player Internal Knowledge

Author(s): In-Chang Baek, Taehwa Park, Kyung-Joong Kim

Pages: 1084 - 1097

21) Personality Assessment System Using Artificial Intelligence in a Game Environment

Author(s): Georgios Liapis, Ioannis Vlahavas

Pages: 1098 - 1111

22) Crafting Usability in Neuro-Narrative Games: The Joint Influence of Imagery Perspectives and Task Sequences in BCI–VR System

Author(s): Annan Lu, Mengjie Huang, Kai-Lun Liao, Zhige Chen, Rui Yang

Pages: 1112 - 1124

23) LLM-Integrated VR NPCs to Support Social Presence and Engagement in a Viking Museum

Author(s): Markus Brøndberg Nielsen, Mathias Øgaard Brams Niebuhr, Rasmus Kanne Mikkelsen, Rasmus Odgaard, Ivan Nikolov

Pages: 1125 - 1134

IEEE Transactions on Games, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2025

1) Procedural Content Generation for Cooperative Games—A Systematic Review

Author(s): José Bernardo Rocha, Rui Prada

Pages: 545 - 557

2) Measuring Diversity of Game Scenarios

Author(s): Yuchen Li, Ziqi Wang, Qingquan Zhang, Bo Yuan, Jialin Liu

Pages: 558 - 581

3) Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: The Effect of Virtual Reality Gaming or Exergaming on Overall Recovery of Individuals With Musculoskeletal Injuries Involving the Upper Extremities

Author(s): Jia Sheng Ngo, See Ziau Hoe, Maziah Mat Rosly

Pages: 582 - 593

4) Personalized Feature Importance Ranking for Affect Recognition From Behavioral and Physiological Data

Author(s): Luis Quintero, Uno Fors, Panagiotis Papapetrou

Pages: 594 - 603

5) Development of Classifiers to Determine Factors Associated With Older Adult's Cognitive Functions and Game User Experience in VR Using Head Kinematics

Author(s): John E Munoz, Faraz Ali, Aysha Basharat, Samira Mehrabi, Michael Barnett-Cowan, Shi Cao, Laura E Middleton, Jennifer Boger

Pages: 604 - 612

6) Toward Real-Time G-Buffer-Guided Style Transfer in Computer Games

Author(s): Eleftherios Ioannou, Steve Maddock

Pages: 613 - 621

7) Image-Based Video Game Asset Generation and Evaluation Using Deep Learning: A Systematic Review of Methods and Applications

Author(s): Rafael Ribeiro, Alexandre Valle de Carvalho, Nelson Bilber Rodrigues

Pages: 622 - 630

8) Identifying Strategies in Dominion Using Playtrace Clustering

Author(s): Anthony Owen

Pages: 631 - 641

9) WemiEnv: An Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Platform for WeChat Mini-Games

Author(s): Longxiang Shi, Qianchen Ding, Jingzhe Hou, Binbin Zhou, Canghong Jin, Ye Tao, Jinling Wei, Shijian Li

Pages: 642 - 651

10) CECILIA: A Toolkit for Visual Game Content Exploration and Modification

Author(s): Philipp Fleck, Michael Hochörtler, David Kastl, Georg Gotschier, Johanna Pirker, Dieter Schmalstieg

Pages: 652 - 664

11) BenchING: A Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Following Structured Output Format Instruction in Text-Based Narrative Game Tasks

Author(s): Pittawat Taveekitworachai, Mury F. Dewantoro, Yi Xia, Pratch Suntichaikul, Ruck Thawonmas

Pages: 665 - 675

12) Developing Agents for Complete DouDizhu Game Enhanced With Concurrent and Multistage Training Methods

Author(s): Chuanfa Li, Kiminori Matsuzaki

Pages: 676 - 685

13) Hybrid Architecture for AI-Based RTS Games

Author(s): Antonio Maciá-Lillo, Antonio Jimeno-Morenilla, Higinio Mora, Eduard Duta

Pages: 686 - 699

14) Asynchronous Controlled Single-Channel EOG-Based Puzzle Solver Robot

Author(s): Prabin K. Panigrahi, Sukant K. Bisoy

Pages: 700 - 709

15) Impact of Multiple Sensory Cues in Immersive Virtual Reality: Evidence From a Full-Body Haptic Suit

Author(s): Polona Caserman, Benjamin Lukas Schnitzer, Stefan Göbel

Pages: 710 - 719

16) ARTigo: Lessons From Social Image Tagging in an Art-Historical Game With a Purpose

Author(s): Stefanie Schneider

Pages: 720 - 728

17) CovLBCG: A Covert Communication Framework Using Live Broadcast Bullet Comment Game

Author(s): Chun Mao, Zhenyu Li, Xiangyang Luo

Pages: 729 - 742

18) Applying Importance Sampling to MCTS for Mahjong

Author(s): Shih-Chieh Tang, Jr-Chang Chen, I-Chen Wu

Pages: 743 - 752

19) AdvMap: Crafting Adversarial Maps to Counter AI Aimbot in First-Person Shooter Games

Author(s): Kai Yan, Xianyi Chen, Qi Cui, Haoqin Yuan, Zhenshan Tan

Pages: 753 - 764

20) Leveraging Privileged Information for Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Jinqiu Li, Enmin Zhao, Tong Wei, Junliang Xing, Shiming Xiang

Pages: 765 - 776

21) Seeding for Success: Skill and Stochasticity in Tabletop Games

Author(s): James Goodman, Diego Perez-Liebana, Simon Lucas

Pages: 777 - 786

22) Mini Honor of Kings: A Lightweight Environment for Multiagent Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Lin Liu, Jian Zhao, Cheng Hu, Zhengtao Cao, Youpeng Zhao, Zhenbin Ye, Meng Meng, Wenjun Wang, Zhaofeng He, Houqiang Li, Xia Lin, Lanxiao Huang

Pages: 787 - 796

23) Biosignal Sequence Real-Time Prediction for Game Users Based on Features Fusion of Local–Global and Time–Frequency Domain

Author(s): Rongyang Li, Jianguo Ding, Huansheng Ning, Lingfeng Mao

Pages: 797 - 812

24) Bidding Efficiently in Simultaneous Ascending Auctions With Incomplete Information Using Monte Carlo Tree Search and Determinization

Author(s): Alexandre Pacaud, Aurelien Bechler, Marceau Coupechoux

Pages: 813 - 826

25) Stress Assessment in Virtual Reality Horror Games Using Players' Behavioral and Physiological Data

Author(s): Susanna Brambilla, Giuseppe Boccignone, Nunzio Alberto Borghese, Laura A. Ripamonti

Pages: 827 - 838

IEEE Transactions on Games, Volume 15, Issue 4

1) Mouse Sensitivity in First-Person Targeting Tasks

Author(s): Ben Boudaoud, Josef Spjut, Joohwan Kim

Pages: 493 - 506

2) Generating Interpretable Play-Style Descriptions Through Deep Unsupervised Clustering of Trajectories

Author(s): Branden Ingram, Clint van Alten, Richard Klein, Benjamin Rosman

Pages: 507 - 516

3) The Professional Go Annotation Dataset

Author(s): Yifan Gao, Danni Zhang, Haoyue Li

Pages: 517 - 526

4) Elastic Monte Carlo Tree Search

Author(s): Linjie Xu, Alexander Dockhorn, Diego Perez-Liebana

Pages: 527 - 537

5) Multigoal Reinforcement Learning via Exploring Entropy-Regularized Successor Matching

Author(s): Xiaoyun Feng, Yun Zhou

Pages: 538 - 548

6) Toward Stress Detection During Gameplay: A Survey

Author(s): Chamila Wijayarathna, Erandi Lakshika

Pages: 549 - 565

7) GAN-Aimbots: Using Machine Learning for Cheating in First Person Shooters

Author(s): Anssi Kanervisto, Tomi Kinnunen, Ville Hautamäki

Pages: 566 - 579

8) Improving the Diversity of Bootstrapped DQN by Replacing Priors With Noise

Author(s): Li Meng, Morten Goodwin, Anis Yazidi, Paal E. Engelstad

Pages: 580 - 589

9) Educating Youth About Human Impact on Freshwater Ecosystems Using an Online Serious Game

Author(s): Daniel A. Burbano Lombana, Roni Barak Ventura, Yin Tian Chen, Maurizio Porfiri

Pages: 590 - 602

10) Open-Ended Evolution for Minecraft Building Generation

Author(s): Matthew Barthet, Antonios Liapis, Georgios N. Yannakakis

Pages: 603 - 612

11) HyperColor: A HyperNetwork Approach for Synthesizing Autocolored 3-D Models for Game Scenes Population

Author(s): Ivan Kostiuk, Przemysław Stachura, Sławomir K. Tadeja, Tomasz Trzciński, Przemysław Spurek

Pages: 613 - 622

12) Peer Incentive Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Multiagent Games

Author(s): Tianle Zhang, Zhen Liu, Zhiqiang Pu, Jianqiang Yi

Pages: 623 - 636

13) AlphaZero-Inspired Game Learning: Faster Training by Using MCTS Only at Test Time

Author(s): Johannes Scheiermann, Wolfgang Konen

Pages: 637 - 647

14) Learning to Play Football From Sports Domain Perspective: A Knowledge-Embedded Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework

Author(s): Boyin Liu, Zhiqiang Pu, Tianle Zhang, Huimu Wang, Jianqiang Yi, Jiachen Mi

Pages: 648 - 657

15) A Deep Learning-Based Multidimensional Aesthetic Quality Assessment Method for Mobile Game Images

Author(s): Tao Wang, Wei Sun, Wei Wu, Ying Chen, Xiongkuo Min, Wei Lu, Zicheng Zhang, Guangtao Zhai

Pages: 658 - 668

16) Personality and Emotion in Strong-Story Narrative Planning

Author(s): Alireza Shirvani, Stephen G. Ware, Lewis J. Baker

Pages: 669 - 682