Michael Cook

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2011-2024
Publications (10 Years): 65

Top Venues

Imperial College London, UK (PHD)

Education History

Imperial College London, UK

PHD

Publications

Oliver Withington, Michael Cook, Laurissa Tokarchuk
On the Evaluation of Procedural Level Generation Systems. CoRR (2024)
Bobby Khaleque, Michael Cook, Jeremy Gow
Experiments in Motivating Exploratory Agents. FDG (2024)
Oliver Withington, Michael Cook, Laurissa Tokarchuk
On the Evaluation of Procedural Level Generation Systems. FDG (2024)
Michael Cook
The Art of Programming: Challenges in Generating Code for Creative Applications. AIware (2024)
Younès Rabii, Michael Cook
"Hunt Takes Hare": Theming Games Through Game-Word Vector Translation. FDG (2024)
Florence Smith Nicholls, Michael Cook
How To Save A World: The Go-Along Interview as Game Preservation Methodology in Wurm Online. FDG (2024)
Florence Smith Nicholls, Michael Cook
How To Save A World: The Go-Along Interview as Game Preservation Methodology in Wurm Online. CoRR (2024)
Younès Rabii, Michael Cook
"Hunt Takes Hare": Theming Games Through Game-Word Vector Translation. CoRR (2024)
Younès Rabii, Michael Cook
Why Oatmeal is Cheap: Kolmogorov Complexity and Procedural Generation. FDG (2023)
Younès Rabii, Michael Cook
Why Oatmeal is Cheap: Kolmogorov Complexity and Procedural Generation. CoRR (2023)
Amy Smith, Michael Cook
AI-Generated Imagery: A New Era for the 'Readymade'. CoRR (2023)
Florence Smith Nicholls, Michael Cook
'That Darned Sandstorm': A Study of Procedural Generation through Archaeological Storytelling. CoRR (2023)
Amy Smith, Michael Cook
AI-Generated Imagery: A New Era for the `Readymade'. SIGGRAPH Asia Art Papers (2023)
Amy Smith, Hope Schroeder, Ziv Epstein, Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Andrew Lippman
Trash to Treasure: Using text-to-image models to inform the design of physical artefacts. CoRR (2023)
Florence Smith Nicholls, Michael Cook
"That Darned Sandstorm": A Study of Procedural Generation through Archaeological Storytelling. FDG (2023)
Florence Smith Nicholls, Michael Cook
The Dark Souls of Archaeology: Recording Elden Ring. CoRR (2022)
Michael Cook
Optimists at Heart: Why Do We Research Game AI? (Extended Version). CoRR (2022)
Michael Cook
Puck: A Slow and Personal Automated Game Designer. AIIDE (2022)
Michael Cook, Jeremy Gow, Gillian Smith, Simon Colton
Danesh: Interactive Tools for Understanding Procedural Content Generators. IEEE Trans. Games 14 (3) (2022)
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 R. Johnson, Quinn Kybartas, David Mason, Mike Preuss, Tristan Smith, Ruck Thawonmas, Julian Togelius
Impressions of the GDMC AI Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft. FDG (2022)
Florence Smith Nicholls, Michael Cook
The Dark Souls of Archaeology: Recording Elden Ring. FDG (2022)
Michael Cook, Azalea Raad
Hyperstate Space Graphs. IEEE Trans. Games 14 (3) (2022)
Michael Cook
Optimists at Heart: Why Do We Research Game AI? CoG (2022)
Mads Johansen, Michael Cook
Challenges in Generating Juice Effects for Automatically Designed Games. AIIDE (2021)
Younès Rabii, Michael Cook
Revealing Game Dynamics via Word Embeddings of Gameplay Data. AIIDE (2021)
Christoph Salge, Claus Aranha, Adrian Brightmoore, Sean Butler, Rodrigo Canaan, Michael Cook, Michael Cerny Green, Hagen Fischer, Christian Guckelsberger, Jupiter Hadley, Jean-Baptiste Hervé, Mark R. Johnson, Quinn Kybartas, David Mason, Mike Preuss, Tristan Smith, Ruck Thawonmas, Julian Togelius
Impressions of the GDMC AI Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft. CoRR (2021)
Matthew Guzdial, Devi Acharya, Max Kreminski, Michael Cook, Mirjam Eladhari, Antonios Liapis, Anne Sullivan
Tabletop Roleplaying Games as Procedural Content Generators. FDG (2020)
Simon Colton, Jon McCormack, Sebastian Berns, Elena Petrovskaya, Michael Cook
Adapting and Enhancing Evolutionary Art for Casual Creation. EvoMUSART (2020)
Matthew Guzdial, Devi Acharya, Max Kreminski, Michael Cook, Mirjam Eladhari, Antonios Liapis, Anne Sullivan
Tabletop Roleplaying Games as Procedural Content Generators. CoRR (2020)
Simon Colton, Jon McCormack, Michael Cook, Sebastian Berns
Creativity Theatre for Demonstrable Computational Creativity. ICCC (2020)
Antonios Liapis, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Michael Cook, Simon Colton
Guest Editorial Special Issue on AI-Based and AI-Assisted Game Design. IEEE Trans. Games 11 (1) (2019)
Michael Cook, Azalea Raad
Hyperstate Space Graphs for Automated Game Analysis. CoG (2019)
Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Alison Pease, Maria Teresa Llano
Framing In Computational Creativity - A Survey And Taxonomy. ICCC (2019)
Simon Colton, Alison Pease, Michael Cook, Chunyang Chen
The HR3 System for Automatic Code Generation in Creative Settings. ICCC (2019)
Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Jeremy Gow, Gillian Smith
General Analytical Techniques For Parameter-Based Procedural Content Generators. CoG (2019)
Michael Cook, Simon Colton
Neighbouring Communities: Interaction, Lessons and Opportunities. ICCC (2018)
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)
Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Azalea Raad
Inferring Design Constraints From Game Ruleset Analysis. CIG (2018)
Edward J. Powley, Simon Colton, Michael Cook
Investigating and Automating the Creative Act of Software Engineering: A Position Paper. ICCC (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)
Anne Sullivan, Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari, Michael Cook
Tarot-based narrative generation. FDG (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)
Michael Cook, Simon Colton
Redesigning Computationally Creative Systems For Continuous Creation. ICCC (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)
Michael Cook
A Vision For Continuous Automated Game Design. CoRR (2017)
Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Jeremy Gow
The ANGELINA Videogame Design System - Part II. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games 9 (3) (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)
Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Jeremy Gow
The ANGELINA Videogame Design System - Part I. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games 9 (2) (2017)
Pieter Spronck, Elisabeth André, Michael Cook, Mike Preuß
Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games: AI-Driven Game Design (Dagstuhl Seminar 17471). Dagstuhl Reports 7 (11) (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)
Michael Cook
A Vision for Continuous Automated Game Design. AIIDE Workshops (2017)
Michael Cook, Adam Summerville, Simon Colton
Off The Beaten Lane: AI Challenges In MOBAs Beyond Player Control. CoRR (2017)
Alexander E. Zook, Michael Cook, Eric Butler, Kristin Siu, Matthew Guzdial, Mark Riedl, James Owen Ryan, Ben Samuel, Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Playable Experiences at AIIDE 2016. AIIDE (2016)
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
The AIIDE 2015 Workshop Program. AI Mag. 37 (2) (2016)
Michael Cook, Mirjam Eladhari, Andy Nealen, Mike Treanor, Eddy Boxerman, Alex Jaffe, Paul Sottosanti, Steve Swink
PCG-Based Game Design Patterns. CoRR (2016)
Michael Cook, Jeremy Gow, Simon Colton
Towards the automatic optimisation of procedural content generators. CIG (2016)
Amanda Phillips, Gillian Smith, Michael Cook, Tanya Short
Feminism and procedural content generation: toward a collaborative politics of computational creativity. Digit. Creativity 27 (1) (2016)
Michael Cook, Gillian Smith
Formalizing Non-Formalism: Breaking the Rules of Automated Game Design. FDG (2015)
Mike Treanor, Alexander Zook, Mirjam P. Eladhari, Julian Togelius, Gillian Smith, Michael Cook, Tommy Thompson, Brian Magerko, John Levine, Adam M. Smith
AI-based Game Design Patterns. FDG (2015)
Michael Cook
Make Something That Makes Something: A Report On The First Procedural Generation Jam. ICCC (2015)
Michael Cook, Squirrel Eiserloh, Justus Robertson, Robert Michael Young, Tommy Thompson, David Churchill, Martin Cerný, Sergio Poo Hernandez, Vadim Bulitko
Playable Experiences at AIIDE 2015. AIIDE (2015)
Tiffany Barnes, Oliver Bown, Michael Buro, Michael Cook, Arne Eigenfeldt, Héctor Muñoz-Avila, Santiago Ontañón, Philippe Pasquier, Noriko Tomuro, Robert Michael Young, Alexander Zook
Reports of the Workshops Held at the Tenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. AI Mag. 36 (1) (2015)
Michael Cook, Simon Colton
Generating Code For Expressing Simple Preferences: Moving On From Hardcoding And Randomness. ICCC (2015)
Michael Cook, Mirjam Eladhari, Adam M. Smith, Gillian Smith, Tommy Thompson, Julian Togelius, Alexander Zook
AI-based Games: Contrabot and What Did You Do? FDG (2015)
Simon Colton, Jakob Halskov, Dan Ventura, Ian Gouldstone, Michael Cook, Blanca Pérez Ferrer
The Painting Fool Sees! New Projects with the Automated Painter. ICCC (2015)
Antonios Liapis, Michael Cook, Adam M. Smith, Gillian Smith, Alexander Zook, Mei Si, Marc Cavazza, Philippe Pasquier
Workshops Held at the Ninth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE): A Report. AI Mag. 35 (2) (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
Playable Experiences at AIIDE 2014. AIIDE (2014)
Michael Cook, Simon Colton
Ludus Ex Machina: Building A 3D Game Designer That Competes Alongside Humans. ICCC (2014)
Simon Colton, Alison Pease, Joseph Corneli, Michael Cook
Assessing Progress in Building Autonomously Creative Systems. ICCC (2014)
Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Azalea Raad, Jeremy Gow
Mechanic Miner: Reflection-Driven Game Mechanic Discovery and Level Design. EvoApplications (2013)
Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Jeremy Gow
Nobody's A Critic: On The Evaluation Of Creative Code Generators - A Case Study In Video Game Design. ICCC (2013)
Michael Cook
Creativity in code: generating rules for video games. XRDS 19 (4) (2013)
Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Alison Pease
Aesthetic Considerations for Automated Platformer Design. AIIDE (2012)
Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Jeremy Gow
Initial Results from Co-operative Co-evolution for Automated Platformer Design. EvoApplications (2012)
Simon Colton, Michael Cook, Azalea Raad
Ludic Considerations of Tablet-Based Evo-Art. EvoApplications (2) (2011)
Michael Cook, Simon Colton
Multi-faceted evolution of simple arcade games. CIG (2011)
Michael Cook, Simon Colton
Automated Collage Generation - With More Intent. ICCC (2011)

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