Mark J. Nelson

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2004-2024
Publications (10 Years): 24

Top Topics

Adaptive Mutation

Design Methodology

Simulation Game

Top Venues

Publications

Arash Moradi Karkaj, Mark J. Nelson, Ioannis Koutis, Amy K. Hoover
Prompt Wrangling: On Replication and Generalization in Large Language Models for PCG Levels. FDG (2024)
Mike Treanor, Ben Samuel, Mark J. Nelson
Prototyping Slice of Life: Social Physics with Symbolically Grounded LLM-based Generative Dialogue. FDG (2024)
Elliot Meyerson, Mark J. Nelson, Herbie Bradley, Arash Moradi, Amy K. Hoover, Joel Lehman
Language Model Crossover: Variation through Few-Shot Prompting. CoRR (2023)
Shi Johnson-Bey, Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
Exploring the Design Space of Social Physics Engines in Games. ICIDS (2022)
Shi Johnson-Bey, Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
Neighborly: A Sandbox for Simulation-based Emergent Narrative. CoG (2022)
Mark J. Nelson
Estimates for the Branching Factors of Atari Games. CoRR (2021)
Mark J. Nelson
Estimates for the Branching Factors of Atari Games. CoG (2021)
Mark J. Nelson, Amy K. Hoover
Notes on Using Google Colaboratory in AI Education. ITiCSE (2020)
Joan Casas-Roma, Mark J. Nelson, Joan Arnedo-Moreno, Swen E. Gaudl, Rob Saunders
Towards Simulated Morality Systems: Role-Playing Games as Artificial Societies. ICAART (1) (2019)
Mike Treanor, Mark J. Nelson
Order-fulfillment games: an analysis of games about serving customers. FDG (2019)
Antonios Liapis, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Mark J. Nelson, Mike Preuss, Rafael Bidarra
Orchestrating Game Generation. IEEE Trans. Games 11 (1) (2019)
Swen E. Gaudl, Mark J. Nelson, Simon Colton, Rob Saunders, Edward Jack Powley, Blanca Pérez Ferrer, Peter Ivey, Michael Cook
Rapid game jams with fluidic games: A user study & design methodology. Entertain. Comput. 27 (2018)
Mark J. Nelson, Swen E. Gaudl, Simon Colton, Sebastian Deterding
Curious users of casual creators. FDG (2018)
Peter Ivey, Blanca Pérez Ferrer, Rob Saunders, Swen E. Gaudl, Edward J. Powley, Mark J. Nelson, Simon Colton, Michael Cook
A Parameter-Space Design Methodology for Casual Creators. ICCC (2018)
Swen E. Gaudl, Mark J. Nelson, Simon Colton, Rob Saunders, Edward Jack Powley, Peter Ivey, Blanca Pérez Ferrer, Michael Cook
Exploring Novel Game Spaces with Fluidic Games. CoRR (2018)
Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang, Sherol Chen, Mark J. Nelson, Douglas Eck
Towards Mixed-initiative generation of multi-channel sequential structure. ICLR (Workshop) (2018)
Mark J. Nelson, Swen E. Gaudl, Simon Colton, Edward Jack Powley, Blanca Pérez Ferrer, Rob Saunders, Peter Ivey, Michael Cook
Fluidic Games in Cultural Contexts. ICCC (2017)
David Olsen, Mark J. Nelson
The Narrative Logic of Rube Goldberg Machines. ICIDS (2017)
Mark J. Nelson, Simon Colton, Edward Jack Powley, Swen E. Gaudl, Peter Ivey, Rob Saunders, Blanca Pérez Ferrer, Michael Cook
Mixed-Initiative Approaches to On-Device Mobile Game Design. MICI@CHI (2017)
Edward Jack Powley, Mark J. Nelson, Swen E. Gaudl, Simon Colton, Blanca Pérez Ferrer, Rob Saunders, Peter Ivey, Michael Cook
Wevva: Democratising Game Design. AIIDE (2017)
James Owen Ryan, Mark J. Nelson
1st Workshop on the History of Expressive Systems. ICIDS (2017)
Edward Jack Powley, Simon Colton, Swen E. Gaudl, Rob Saunders, Mark J. Nelson
Semi-automated level design via auto-playtesting for handheld casual game creation. CIG (2016)
Mark J. Nelson
Investigating vanilla MCTS scaling on the GVG-AI game corpus. CIG (2016)
Mark J. Nelson
The Tapper Videogame Patent as a Series of Close Readings. DiGRA/FDG (2016)
Kristian Hjaltason, Steffen Christophersen, Julian Togelius, Mark J. Nelson
Game mechanics telling stories? An experiment. FDG (2015)
Thorbjørn S. Nielsen, Gabriella A. B. Barros, Julian Togelius, Mark J. Nelson
Towards generating arcade game rules with VGDL. CIG (2015)
Thorbjørn S. Nielsen, Gabriella A. B. Barros, Julian Togelius, Mark J. Nelson
General Video Game Evaluation Using Relative Algorithm Performance Profiles. EvoApplications (2015)
Marco Scirea, Mark J. Nelson, Julian Togelius
Moody Music Generator: Characterising Control Parameters Using Crowdsourcing. EvoMUSART (2015)
Alessandro Canossa, Staffan Björk, Mark J. Nelson
X-COM: UFO Defense vs. XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Using gameplay design patterns to understand game remakes. FDG (2014)
Marco Scirea, Yun-Gyung Cheong, Mark J. Nelson, Byung-Chull Bae
Evaluating musical foreshadowing of videogame narrative experiences. Audio Mostly Conference (2014)
Tilman Geishauser, Yun-Gyung Cheong, Mark J. Nelson
A prototype using territories and an affordance tree for social simulation gameplay. FDG (2014)
Steve Dahlskog, Julian Togelius, Mark J. Nelson
Linear levels through n-grams. MindTrek (2014)
Miika Pirtola, Yun-Gyung Cheong, Mark J. Nelson
Player Perspectives to Unexplained Agency-Related Incoherence. ICIDS (2013)
Mark J. Nelson
Preface. AI in the Game Design Process @ AIIDE (2013)
Andrew Borg Cardona, Julian Togelius, Mark J. Nelson
Competitive coevolution in Ms. Pac-Man. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2013)
Rilla Khaled, Mark J. Nelson, Pippin Barr
Design metaphors for procedural content generation in games. CHI (2013)
Nils Iver Holtar, Mark J. Nelson, Julian Togelius
Audioverdrive: Exploring Bidirectional Communication between Music and gameplay. ICMC (2013)
Mark J. Nelson, Paolo Burelli, Kostas Karpouzis, Simon M. Lucas, Peter I. Cowling
Tutorials. CIG (2012)
Spyridon Giannatos, Yun-Gyung Cheong, Mark J. Nelson, Georgios N. Yannakakis
Generating Narrative Action Schemas for Suspense. INT@AIIDE (2012)
Mark J. Nelson
Soviet and American precursors to the gamification of work. MindTrek (2012)
Isaac M. Dart, Mark J. Nelson
Smart terrain causality chains for adventure-game puzzle generation. CIG (2012)
Mark J. Nelson
Game Metrics Without Players: Strategies for Understanding Game Artifacts. IDP@AIIDE (2011)
Spyridon Giannatos, Mark J. Nelson, Yun-Gyung Cheong, Georgios N. Yannakakis
Suggesting New Plot Elements for an Interactive Story. Intelligent Narrative Technologies (2011)
Adam M. Smith, Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
LUDOCORE: A logical game engine for modeling videogames. CIG (2010)
Adam M. Smith, Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
Prototyping Games with BIPED. AIIDE (2009)
Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
A requirements analysis for videogame design support tools. FDG (2009)
Sherol Chen, Mark J. Nelson, Anne Sullivan, Michael Mateas
Evaluating the Authorial Leverage of Drama Management. AAAI Spring Symposium: Intelligent Narrative Technologies II (2009)
Sherol Chen, Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
Evaluating the Authorial Leverage of Drama Management. AIIDE (2009)
Adam M. Smith, Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
Computational Support for Play Testing Game Sketches. AIIDE (2009)
Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
Another look at search-based drama management. AAMAS (3) (2008)
Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
Another Look at Search-Based Drama Management. AAAI (2008)
Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
An interactive game-design assistant. IUI (2008)
Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
Recombinable Game Mechanics for Automated Design Support. AIIDE (2008)
Sooraj Bhat, David L. Roberts, Mark J. Nelson, Charles L. Isbell Jr., Michael Mateas
A globally optimal algorithm for TTD-MDPs. AAMAS (2007)
Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
Towards Automated Game Design. AI*IA (2007)
David L. Roberts, Mark J. Nelson, Charles Lee Isbell Jr., Michael Mateas, Michael L. Littman
Targeting Specific Distributions of Trajectories in MDPs. AAAI (2006)
Mark J. Nelson, David L. Roberts, Charles Lee Isbell Jr., Michael Mateas
Reinforcement learning for declarative optimization-based drama management. AAMAS (2006)
Mark J. Nelson, Calvin Ashmore, Michael Mateas
Authoring Interactive Narratives with Declarative Optimization-Based Drama Management. AIIDE (2006)
Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas, David L. Roberts, Charles Lee Isbell Jr.
Declarative Optimization-Based Drama Management in Interactive Fiction. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 26 (3) (2006)
Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
Search-Based Drama Management in the Interactive Fiction Anchorhead. AIIDE (2005)
Belinda Thom, Mark J. Nelson
An In-Depth Analysis of Real-Time MIDI Performance. ICMC (2004)
Mark J. Nelson, Belinda Thom
A Survey of Real-Time MIDI Performance. NIME (2004)