PROCEDURAL CONTENT GENERATION WORKSHOP (PCG Workshop 2017)

Papers may cover a variety of topics within procedural content generation for games, including but not limited to:

• Real-time or offline algorithms for the procedural generation of games, levels, narrative, puzzles, environments, artwork, audio, sound effects, animation, characters, items, and other game content

• Generation of non-game content such as text, poetry, art, and music

• Case studies of procedural generation as applied for use in the games industry

• Techniques for procedural animation, procedural art, and other forms of visual content in games

• Work on procedural audio, music, sound effects, and other forms of audible content in games

• Procedural generation of narrative, stories, dialogues, conversations, and natural language

• Automated generation of game rules, variants, parameters, strategies, or game systems

• Automatic game balancing, game tuning, and difficulty adjustment through generated content

• Applications of PCG for digital, non-digital, physical, card, and tabletop games

• Applications of procedural content generation for Virtual Reality (VR) and virtual worlds

• Issues in mixed-mode systems combining human generated and procedurally generated content.

• Tools and systems to aid players and game designers in creating their own content for games

• Procedural content generation as a game mechanic

• Distributed and crowdsourcing procedural content generation

• Computational creativity and co-creation of games and game related content

• Novel uses of AI and machine learning algorithms for generating and evaluating procedural content

• Evaluation of player and/or designer experience in procedural content generation.

• Procedural content generation during development (e.g. prototyping, playtesting, etc.)

• Theoretical implications of procedural content generation

• Strategies for meaningfully incorporating procedural generation into game design

• Lessons from historical examples of PCG, including postmortems

• Social and ethical impact of procedural content generation

• Applications to games other than Super Mario Bros are especially welcome!

• Applications to areas other than games are even more especially welcome!