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< Back Decentralised Gambling Overview Link Author(s) OJ Scholten, JA Walker, D Zendle Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back iGGi Con 2025 - REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! The next iGGi Conference is happening soon! iGGi Con 2025 University of York 10-11 September REGISTER VIA THIS FORM iGGi Con 2025 website And you can obviously also follow the iGGi social media for related news and updates: LinkedIn BlueSky Please note that full coverage of the event will be mainly via our BlueSky account . Hoping to see many of you there! Previous 7 May 2025 Next

< Back An Exploratory Analysis of Student Experiences with Peer Evaluation in Group Game Development Projects Link Author(s) A Mitchell, M Scott, J Walton-Rivers, M Watkins, W New, D Brown Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Discrete versus Ordinal Time-Continuous Believability Assessment Link Author(s) C Pacheco, D Melhart, A Liapis, GN Yannakakis, D Perez-Liebana Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Modelling early user-game interactions for joint estimation of survival time and churn probability Link Author(s) V Bonometti, C Ringer, M Hall, AR Wade, A Drachen Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Visual Referential Games Further the Emergence of Disentangled Representations Link Author(s) K Denamganaï, S Missaoui, JA Walker Abstract More info TBA Link

iGGi Partners We are excited to be collaborating with a number of industry partners. IGGI works with industry in some of the following ways: Student Industry Knowledge Transfer - this can take many forms, from what looks like a traditional placement, to a short term consultancy, to an ongoing relationship between the student and their industry partner. Student Sponsorship - for some of our students, their relationship with their industry partner is reinforced by sponsorship from the company. This is an excellent demonstration of the strength of the commitment and the success of the collaborations. In Kind Contributions - IGGI industry partners can contribute by attending and/or featuring in our annual conference, offering their time to give talks and masterclasses for our students, or even taking part in our annual game jam! There are many ways for our industry partners to work with IGGI. If you are interested in becoming involved, please do contact us so we can discuss what might be suitable for you. Swrve

< Back Shallow decision-making analysis in general video game playing Link Author(s) I Bravi, D Perez-Liebana, SM Lucas, J Liu Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back What are you looking at? Team fight prediction through player camera Link Author(s) M Tot, M Conserva, AP Chitayat, A Kokkinakis, S Patra, S Demediuk, ... Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Echo Suite of Software (Showcase Brochure) Link Author(s) Florian Oliver Block, Marian Ursu, Jonathan David Hook, Ben Kirman, Anders Drachen, Simon Peter Demediuk, Athanasios Kokkinakis, [...], Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat, ... Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back A data-driven approach for examining the demand for relaxation games on Steam during the COVID-19 pandemic Link Author(s) M Croissant, M Frister Abstract More info TBA Link

A Word from The iGGi Director iGGi is a collaboration between Uni of York + Queen Mary Uni of London: the largest training programme worldwide for doing a PhD in digital games. A Word from the Director Welcome to iGGi! Below are a few words about the vision for iGGi, about who funds iGGi and why, and about why i GGi can be a force for good in a sometimes turbulent world. iGGi is short for the “EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence” (EPSRC is short for “Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council”). You can see why the name iGGi stuck! In , 120 PhD students spend 4 years learning cool stuff and conducting research in topics related to games and the games industry, working with 100 UK games companies . The big vision for iGGi is to inject research innovations and innovative researchers into the games industry. There is a strong economic argument for this, and there are even stronger social and cultural reasons. So where did iGGi come from and what is the vision that allowed us to win £30 million for games research? In the early 2000s, the games research community went through a huge growth spurt (which continues to this day). The economic, social and cultural power of video games meant that politicians and funders could no longer brush games aside as kid’s stuff. An opportunity arose in 2013 with the announcement of a competition for funding around 100 centres for PhD research in a focussed area of science or engineering. While it was clear that the call would be massively oversubscribed and very competitive, games seemed a good fit given the rise and rise of the financial size of the games market and the growing research community. We had more and more friends and contacts in the games industry. And we had shown that games could be funded at scale via projects such as UCT (£1.5 million) and NEMOG (1.2 million). A group of people from across academia and industry, with an interest in games research, came together to submit a bid and form a consortium. Our joint goal was to “make better games” and “make games better”. My role in this (as ‘Principal Investigator’) was as a synthesiser of ideas, as a recruiter of people who shared and refined these ideas, and as a writer and lobbyist who could package them up for referees who almost certainly lacked enthusiasm for games research. So how can we summarise the iGGi vision? The ‘IG’ in iGGi stands for ‘Intelligent Games’ - using research advances to make better games that provide richer, more fun experiences. The ‘GI’ in iGGi stands for ‘Game Intelligence’ - research which uses games to understand and inform people. In more detail: the following two paragraphs, from the 2013 iGGi bid, were probably among the most carefully written of the text in the whole bid document (redrafted dozens of times): Our vision is twofold: Intelligent Games: iGGi PhDs, investigators and collaborators will use research advances to seed the creation of a new generation of more intelligent and engaging digital games, to underpin the distinctiveness and growth of the UK games industry. We will weave technical and creative disciplines: using games as an application area to advance research in areas including artificial intelligence and computational creativity; human-computer interaction; interactive sound, graphics and narrative; robotics, agents and complex systems. The study of intelligent games will be underpinned by new business models and by research advances in data mining (game analytics) which can exploit vast volumes of gameplay data. Game Intelligence: iGGi PhDs, investigators and collaborators will investigate games as a medium to achieve scientific and societal goals, working with user groups and the games industry to produce new genres of games which can yield therapeutic, educational and social benefits and using games to seed a new era of scientific experimentation into human preference and interaction. We will create new games to conduct large-scale analysis of individual behaviour, leading to better understanding in economics, psychology, sociology, biology and human-computer interaction. We will build games which promote physical and mental health and educational achievement, underpinned by advances in mobile technology and data mining. This vision was refined and updated for the 2018 iGGi resubmission, especially given the enormous advances in machine learning and the cultural and social successes of games, but the text above remains a good overview of the high-level iGGi vision. But a vision is relatively static, and now, of course, iGGi is a community of brilliant, fun, caring, intelligent, curious research students, supported by staff and industry partners. So maybe the best way to find out more about iGGi is to read more about a few of them… I look forward to talking about games research with you! Peter Cowling iGGi Director Professor of AI, Queen Mary University of London