Michael Mateas

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1996-2024
Publications (10 Years): 76

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Rehaf Aljammaz, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
Navigating Faction Systems: Insights and Recommendations for More Believable NPCs in Video Games. FDG (2024)
Jack Kelly, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Paradise: An Experiment Extending the Ensemble Social Physics Engine with Language Models. FDG (2024)
Hongwei Zhou, Jichen Zhu, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
The Eyes, the Hands and the Brain: What can Text-to-Image Models Offer for Game Design and Visual Creativity? FDG (2024)
Jack Kelly, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Towards Computational Support with Language Models for TTRPG Game Masters. FDG (2023)
Jack Kelly, Alex Calderwood, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
There and Back Again: Extracting Formal Domains for Controllable Neurosymbolic Story Authoring. AIIDE (2023)
Shi Johnson-Bey, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Toward Using ChatGPT to Generate Theme-Relevant Simulated Storyworlds. EXAG@AIIDE (2023)
Rehaf Aljammaz, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Modeling Morality-Based Argumentation for Believable Game Characters: A Design Postmortem. AIIDE (2023)
Devi Acharya, Jack Kelly, William Tate, Maxwell Joslyn, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Shoelace: A Storytelling Assistant for GUMSHOE One-2-One. FDG (2023)
Rehaf Aljammaz, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
Towards an Understanding of Character Believability. FDG (2023)
Max Kreminski, Melanie Dickinson, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
Select the Unexpected: A Statistical Heuristic for Story Sifting. ICIDS (2022)
Katelyn M. Grasse, Max Kreminski, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas, Edward F. Melcer
Using Self-Determination Theory to Explore Enjoyment of Educational Interactive Narrative Games: A Case Study of Academical. Frontiers Virtual Real. 3 (2022)
Max Kreminski, Isaac Karth, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Evaluating Mixed-Initiative Creative Interfaces via Expressive Range Coverage Analysis. IUI Workshops (2022)
Alex Calderwood, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
Spinning Coherent Interactive Fiction through Foundation Model Prompts. ICCC (2022)
Shi Johnson-Bey, Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
Exploring the Design Space of Social Physics Engines in Games. ICIDS (2022)
Nick Junius, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Elín Carstensdóttir
Playing with the Strings: Designing Puppitor as an Acting Interface for Digital Games. AIIDE (2022)
Max Kreminski, Melanie Dickinson, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
Loose Ends: A Mixed-Initiative Creative Interface for Playful Storytelling. AIIDE (2022)
Max Kreminski, Melanie Dickinson, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
A Demonstration of Loose Ends, A Mixed-Initiative Narrative Instrument. ICIDS (2022)
Samuel Shields, Ross Mawhorter, Edward F. Melcer, Michael Mateas
Searching for Balanced 2D Brawler Games: Successes and Failures of Automated Evaluation. AIIDE (2022)
Shi Johnson-Bey, Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
Neighborly: A Sandbox for Simulation-based Emergent Narrative. CoG (2022)
Nick Junius, Max Kreminski, Michael Mateas
There Is No Escape: Theatricality in Hades. FDG (2021)
Max Kreminski, Michael Mateas
Toward Narrative Instruments. ICIDS (2021)
Elisabeth Oliver, Michael Mateas
Crosston Tavern: Modulating Autonomous Characters Behaviour through Player-NPC Conversation. AIIDE (2021)
Shi Johnson-Bey, Michael Mateas
Centrifuge: A Visual Tool for Authoring Sifting Patterns for Character-Based Simulationist StoryWorlds. AIIDE Workshops (2021)
Devi Acharya, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Story Improvisation in Tabletop Roleplaying Games: Towards a Computational Assistant for Game Masters. CoG (2021)
Devi Acharya, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Interviews Towards Designing Support Tools for TTRPG Game Masters. ICIDS (2021)
Max Kreminski, Melanie Dickinson, Michael Mateas
Winnow: A Domain-Specific Language for Incremental Story Sifting. AIIDE (2021)
Max Kreminski, Michael Mateas
A Coauthorship-Centric History of Interactive Emergent Narrative. ICIDS (2021)
Max Kreminski, Michael Mateas
Opportunities for Approachable Game Development via Program Synthesis. AIIDE Workshops (2021)
Rehaf Aljammaz, Yasheng She, Michael Mateas
Argument Box. AIIDE Workshops (2021)
Tamara Duplantis, Isaac Karth, Max Kreminski, Adam M. Smith, Michael Mateas
A Genre-Specific Game Description Language for Game Boy RPGs. CoG (2021)
Max Kreminski, Michael Mateas
Reflective Creators. ICCC (2021)
Melanie Dickinson, Max Kreminski, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Sabine Wieluch
Playable Experiences at the 16th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. AIIDE (2020)
Max Kreminski, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
Toward Example-Driven Program Synthesis of Story Sifting Patterns. AIIDE Workshops (2020)
Max Kreminski, Melanie Dickinson, Joseph C. Osborn, Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Germinate: A Mixed-Initiative Casual Creator for Rhetorical Games. AIIDE (2020)
Rehaf Aljammaz, Elisabeth Oliver, Jim Whitehead, Michael Mateas
Scheherazade's Tavern: A Prototype For Deeper NPC Interactions. FDG (2020)
Max Kreminski, Melanie Dickinson, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Why Are We Like This?: The AI Architecture of a Co-Creative Storytelling Game. FDG (2020)
Jacob Garbe, Max Kreminski, Ben Samuel, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
StoryAssembler: an engine for generating dynamic choice-driven narratives. FDG (2019)
Adam Summerville, Chris Martens, Sarah Harmon, Michael Mateas, Joseph C. Osborn, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Arnav Jhala
From Mechanics to Meaning. IEEE Trans. Games 11 (1) (2019)
Nick Junius, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Towards expressive input for character dialogue in digital games. FDG (2019)
Joseph C. Osborn, Melanie Dickinson, Barrett R. Anderson, Adam Summerville, Jill Denner, David M. Torres, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
Is Your Game Generator Working? Evaluating Gemini, an Intentional Generator. AIIDE (2019)
Kate Compton, Michael Mateas
Freedom of Movement: Generative Responses to Motion Control. AIIDE Workshops (2018)
John T. Murray, Raquel Robinson, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Comparing Player Responses to Choice-Based Interactive Narratives Using Facial Expression Analysis. ICIDS (2018)
Adam Summerville, Chris Martens, Ben Samuel, Joseph C. Osborn, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
Gemini: Bidirectional Generation and Analysis of Games via ASP. AIIDE (2018)
Joseph Carter Osborn, Benjamin Samuel, Michael Mateas
Visualizing the strategic landscape of arbitrary games. Inf. Vis. 17 (3) (2018)
Joseph C. Osborn, Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas
Automated Game Design Learning. CoRR (2017)
Joseph C. Osborn, James O. Ryan, Michael Mateas
Analyzing Expressionist Grammars by Reduction to Symbolic Visibly Pushdown Automata. AIIDE Workshops (2017)
Kate Compton, Michael Mateas
A Generative Framework of Generativity. AIIDE Workshops (2017)
Joseph C. Osborn, Brian Lambrigger, Michael Mateas
HyPED: Modeling and Analyzing Action Games as Hybrid Systems. AIIDE (2017)
Melanie Leah Dickinson, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
Social Simulation for Social Justice. AIIDE Workshops (2017)
Joseph C. Osborn, Ben Samuel, Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas
Towards General RPG Playing. AIIDE Workshops (2017)
Joseph C. Osborn, Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas
Automated game design learning. CIG (2017)
Kate Compton, Edward F. Melcer, Michael Mateas
Generominos: Ideation Cards for Interactive Generativity. AIIDE Workshops (2017)
Eric Kaltman, Joseph C. Osborn, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
Getting the GISST: a toolkit for the creation, analysis and reference of game studies resources. FDG (2017)
John T. Murray, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Proposal for analyzing player emotions in an interactive narrative using story intention graphs. FDG (2017)
Joseph C. Osborn, Michael Mateas
Evaluating a Solver-Aided Puzzle Design Tool. MICI@CHI (2017)
Adam Summerville, Morteza Behrooz, Michael Mateas, Arnav Jhala
What Does That ?-Block Do? Learning Latent Causal Affordances From Mario Play Traces. AAAI Workshops (2017)
Joseph C. Osborn, Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas
Automatic Mapping of NES Games with Mappy. CoRR (2017)
Joseph C. Osborn, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
Refining operational logics. FDG (2017)
Joseph Carter Osborn, Michael Mateas
Against Forward Models. AAAI Workshops (2017)
Joseph C. Osborn, Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas
Automatic mapping of NES games with mappy. FDG (2017)
Adam Summerville, Joseph C. Osborn, Michael Mateas
CHARDA: Causal Hybrid Automata Recovery via Dynamic Analysis. IJCAI (2017)
April Grow, Melanie Dickinson, Johnathan Pagnutti, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
Crafting in Games. Digit. Humanit. Q. 11 (4) (2017)
Adam Summerville, Joseph C. Osborn, Michael Mateas
CHARDA: Causal Hybrid Automata Recovery via Dynamic Analysis. 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)
Ben Samuel, James Owen Ryan, Adam J. Summerville, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Bad News: An Experiment in Computationally Assisted Performance. ICIDS (2016)
Adam James Summerville, Michael Mateas
Mystical Tutor: A Magic: The Gathering Design Assistant via Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Learning. AIIDE (2016)
Ben Samuel, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
The Design of Writing Buddy: A Mixed-Initiative Approach Towards Computational Story Collaboration. ICIDS (2016)
James Owen Ryan, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
A Lightweight Videogame Dialogue Manager. DiGRA/FDG (2016)
Adam James Summerville, Sam Snodgrass, Michael Mateas, Santi Ontañón Villar
The VGLC: The Video Game Level Corpus. CoRR (2016)
James Owen Ryan, Adam James Summerville, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Translating Player Dialogue into Meaning Representations Using LSTMs. IVA (2016)
Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas
Super Mario as a String: Platformer Level Generation Via LSTMs. CoRR (2016)
James Owen Ryan, Eric Kaltman, Timothy Hong, Katherine Isbister, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
GameNet and GameSage: Videogame Discovery as Design Insight. DiGRA/FDG (2016)
James Owen Ryan, Ethan Seither, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Expressionist: An Authoring Tool for In-Game Text Generation. ICIDS (2016)
Adam J. Summerville, Michael Mateas
Super Mario as a String: Platformer Level Generation Via LSTMs. DiGRA/FDG (2016)
Adam James Summerville, James Owen Ryan, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
CFGs-2-NLU: Sequence-to-Sequence Learning for Mapping Utterances to Semantics and Pragmatics. CoRR (2016)
James Owen Ryan, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Characters Who Speak Their Minds: Dialogue Generation in Talk of the Town. AIIDE (2016)
Dylan Lederle-Ensign, William Robinson, Johnathan Pagnutti, Michael Mateas
A Software Studies Approach to Interpreting Passage. FDG (2015)
James Owen Ryan, Eric Kaltman, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Tools for Game Discovery Built Using Latent Semantic Analysis. FDG (2015)
Simon M. Lucas, Michael Mateas, Mike Preuss, Pieter Spronck, Julian Togelius
Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games: Integration (Dagstuhl Seminar 15051). Dagstuhl Reports 5 (1) (2015)
James Owen Ryan, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Open Design Challenges for Interactive Emergent Narrative. ICIDS (2015)
Michael Mateas, Peter A. Mawhorter, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Intentionally Generating Choices in Interactive Narratives. ICCC (2015)
Daniel G. Shapiro, Larry LeBron, Andrew Stern, Michael Mateas
Aesthetic Interleaving of Character Performance Requests. INT/SBG@AIIDE (2015)
Peter Andrew Mawhorter, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Generating Relaxed, Obvious, and Dilemma Choices with Dunyazad. AIIDE (2015)
Daniel G. Shapiro, Karen Tanenbaum, Joshua McCoy, Larry LeBron, Craig W. Reynolds, Andrew Stern, Michael Mateas, Bill Ferguson, David Diller, Kerry Moffitt, Will Coon, Bruce Roberts
Composing Social Interactions via Social Games. AAMAS (2015)
Joseph Carter Osborn, Ben Samuel, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Playspecs: Regular Expressions for Game Play Traces. AIIDE (2015)
Ben Samuel, Aaron A. Reed, Paul Maddaloni, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
The Scored Rule Engine: Next-Generation Social Physics. FDG (2015)
James Owen Ryan, Andrew Max Fisher, Taylor Owen-Milner, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Toward Natural Language Generation by Humans. INT/SBG@AIIDE (2015)
Kate Compton, Ben A. Kybartas, Michael Mateas
Tracery: An Author-Focused Generative Text Tool. ICIDS (2015)
James Owen Ryan, Eric Kaltman, Andrew Max Fisher, Timothy Hong, Taylor Owen-Milner, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Large-Scale Interactive Visualizations of Nearly 12, 000 Games. FDG (2015)
Joseph C. Osborn, Dylan Lederle-Ensign, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
Combat in Games. FDG (2015)
Kate Compton, Michael Mateas
Tracery: An Author-Focused Generative Text Tool. FDG (2015)
Adam Summerville, Morteza Behrooz, Michael Mateas, Arnav Jhala
The Learning of Zelda: Data-Driven Level Generation for Action Role Playing Games. FDG (2015)
Kate Compton, Michael Mateas
Casual Creators. ICCC (2015)
James Owen Ryan, Eric Kaltman, Timothy Hong, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
People Tend to Like Related Games. FDG (2015)
James Owen Ryan, Eric Kaltman, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Bottom-up Game Studies. FDG (2015)
Jacob Garbe, Aaron A. Reed, Melanie Dickinson, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
Author assistance visualizations for Ice-Bound, a combinatorial narrative. FDG (2014)
Aaron A. Reed, Jacob Garbe, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
Ice-Bound: Combining richly-realized story with expressive gameplay. FDG (2014)
Heather Logas, Jim Whitehead, Michael Mateas, Richard Vallejos, Lauren Scott, John T. Murray, Kate Compton, Joseph C. Osborn, Orlando Salvatore, Daniel G. Shapiro, Zhongpeng Lin, Huascar Sanchez, Michael Shavlovsky, Chris Lewis, Daniel Cetina, Shayne Clementi
Xylem: The Code of Plants. FDG (2014)
Ben Samuel, Josh McCoy, Mike Treanor, Aaron A. Reed, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Introducing story sampling: Preliminary results of a new interactive narrative evaluation technique. FDG (2014)
Brandon Robert Tearse, Peter A. Mawhorter, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Skald: Minstrel Reconstructed. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games 6 (2) (2014)

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