Topics include:

• AI in Game Design: AI as a source of novel game mechanics and genres
• AI-Based Production and Authoring Tools: Behavior-building, design frameworks, telemetry-supported game design, content authoring support, scripting, sketch-based authoring, automated playtesting
• AI Techniques for Games: Planning, reinforcement learning, search, neural networks, Bayesian models, evolutionary algorithms, case-based reasoning, constraint programming, utility-based approaches, animation, camera control, tactical/strategic decision making, terrain analysis, opponent modeling, dynamic difficulty adjustment, spatial decompositions, path planning
• AI Storytelling: Interactive drama, story generation, character development
• Autonomous Characters, NPCs, and Virtual Humans: Personality, emotion, believability, natural language processing, cognitive modeling, crowd simulation, social robotics
• Procedural Content Generation: Level generation, progression design, behavior adaptation
• Commercial AI Implementations: Case studies, implementation analysis, comparative evaluations
• AI in Novel Entertainment Applications: Entertainment robotics, virtual/mixed reality, mobile device games, geo-location based games, games for human-computation
• Computational Creativity and Generative Art: Painting, poetry, story, humor, music
• AI in Games for Impact: Training, education, intelligent tutoring, games for health, gamification