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FDG 2025: Vienna & Graz, Austria
- Johanna Pirker, Fares Kayali, Katta Spiel, Sabine Harrer, Ahmed Khalifa, Gabriella A. B. Barros:
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2025, Vienna & Graz, Austria, April 15-18, 2025. ACM 2025, ISBN 979-8-4007-1856-4
Technical Game Development and Hardware
- Naznin Sharmin Shishir
, Richard Zhao
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Is the Jedi Force Pull Method Effective? Evaluating Eye-Tracked Object Grabbing in VR. 1:1-1:10 - Qianwen Lyu
, David E. Millard
, Nicholas Gibbins
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Stories from the Bottom Up: Emergent Narratives with Composable Story Sifting Patterns. 2:1-2:11 - Markus Kirjonen
, Adas Slezas
, Supriya Dutta
, Markus Laattala
, Perttu Hämäläinen
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Souls-VR: Dodge-Rolling in Virtual Reality. 3:1-3:11
Game Design, Studio Practices, and Novel Player Experiences
- Erin J. K. Truesdell
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"Pull the Lever, Kronk!": Mapping Controller Affordances to Collaborative Sense-Making in Play. 4:1-4:10 - Miikka Junnila
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Thematization of actions in open-world action-adventure games. 5:1-5:13 - Anna-Lena Meiners
, Damian Reich
, Kieran Hicks
, Dmitry Alexandrovsky
, Kathrin Gerling
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Lushness in Game Design: The Role of Non-Interactive Visual Embellishments in Player Experience. 6:1-6:11 - Dave Hawey
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Understanding Game Art Practice Beyond Technical Expertise: A Qualitative Study. 7:1-7:12 - Daeana Paula Bourscheid
, Andrea Valéria Steil, Elizabet da Silva Paixão
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Crunch on video game production: practices to avoid for healthier workplaces in Game Development. 8:1-8:5 - Hamza Bashandy
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A Design Toolkit of Ludic Contentious Politics: The Case of Protest in Videogames. 9:1-9:6 - Annakaisa Kultima
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Trends in Gaming - Views of Industry Professionals and Game Scholars. 10:1-10:7 - Celina Auer
, Michael Lankes
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Enhancing Player Satisfaction Through Personality-Based Narrative Adaptation in Digital Games. 11:1-11:11 - Julius Tietenberg
, Patrizia Ring
, Maic Masuch
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Virtual Proximity, Real Anxiety: How Co-located VR Gameplay Increases Mutual Player Distance and Fear of Colliding. 12:1-12:14 - Jessica Cox
, Kaylee Forsting
, Matthew Mosher
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Building Story and Interest: How Lore and Atmosphere Affect Immersion Within an ARG. 13:1-13:6 - Thomas Westin
, Jenny Brusk
, Adam Palmquist
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Accessibility and Inclusion in the Game Industry: A position paper. 14:1-14:6 - Yannick Seim
, Lukas Strobel
, Kathrin Gerling
, Dmitry Alexandrovsky
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Understanding Disengagement From Competitive Multiplayer Games: An Exploratory Study of League of Legends. 15:1-15:11 - Sasha Soraine
, Jacques Carette
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The Many Views of Game-Related Experiences with the Experiential Tetrad. 16:1-16:11 - Vinaya Tawde
, Simone Kriglstein
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Mobile Augmented Reality: A Systematic Review of Current Research and the Untapped Potential of Interactive Marker-Based Games. 17:1-17:12 - Prabhav Bhatnagar
, Markus Laattala
, Supriya Dutta
, Tom Cole
, Perttu Hämäläinen
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Beyond Satisfaction: Game Feel Design for Emotionally Impactful Experiences. 18:1-18:17 - Arjun Madhusudan
, Josef B. Spjut
, Benjamin Watson
, Seth Schneider
, Ben Boudaoud
, Joohwan Kim
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Toward Understanding Display Size for FPS Esports Aiming. 19:1-19:7 - Fiona Shyne
, Seth Cooper
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Computational Tools for Table-Top Role-Playing Games: A Scoping Review. 20:1-20:14 - Enric Granzotto Llagostera
, Rilla Khaled
, Kalervo A. Sinervo
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Tracing Research Through Design with Ponte: bridging game development repositories and qualitative research tools. 21:1-21:10
Game Analytics and Visualization
- Pablo Gutiérrez-Sánchez
, Diego Pérez-Liébana
, Raluca D. Gaina
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Explaining and Clustering Playtraces Using Temporal Logics. 22:1-22:10 - Alexander J. Bisberg
, Emily Chen
, Marlon Twyman
, Dmitri Williams
, Emilio Ferrara
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STRIVE: Socio-behavioral Taxonomy Representation for Interactive Virtual Environments. 23:1-23:9 - Letian Wang
, Claire Dormann
, Guenter Wallner
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Player Perception Matters: Insights into the Use of Esports Live Companion Tools. 24:1-24:14
Game Artificial Intelligence
- Christian Poglitsch
, Fabian Szakács
, Johanna Pirker
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Evaluating Large Language Models through Communication Games: An Agent-Based Framework Using Werewolf in Unity. 25:1-25:10 - Riemer van Rozen
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Live Game Design: Prototyping at the Speed of Play. 26:1-26:12 - Ahmed Khalifa
, Roberto Gallotta
, Matthew Barthet
, Antonios Liapis
, Julian Togelius
, Georgios N. Yannakakis
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The Procedural Content Generation Benchmark: An Open-source Testbed for Generative Challenges in Games. 27:1-27:12 - Ross Mawhorter
, Adam M. Smith
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Analytic Procgen with Composable Design Space Expressions. 28:1-28:11 - Louis Robinet
, Marcello A. Gómez Maureira
, Mike Preuss
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Towards a Celeste AI Framework: Agent-free Automated 2D Level Generation for Multidirectional Platformers. 29:1-29:14 - Mike Treanor
, Ben Samuel
, Mark J. Nelson
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Slice of Life: A Social Physics Game with Interactive Conversations using Symbolically Grounded LLM-Based Generative Dialogue. 30:1-30:11 - Lasantha Senanayake
, Stephen G. Ware
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Language Models as Narrative Planning Heuristics. 31:1-31:9 - Jonathan Campbell
, Clark Verbrugge
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Playing RollerCoaster Tycoon with Reinforcement Learning. 32:1-32:7 - Mahsa Bazzaz
, Seth Cooper
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Analysis of Robustness of a Large Game Corpus. 33:1-33:9
Game Criticism and Analysis
- Huajing Pan
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Between Illusion and Reality: A Philosophical Reflection on the Fantasy Created by Video Games. 34:1-34:7 - Josiah D. Boucher
, Yunus Dogan Telliel
, Gillian Smith
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Shifting Genres: Limits of Video Game Genre Taxonomy in Roguelikes. 35:1-35:10 - PB Berge
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Anti-Games, Fantasy Consoles, and the Rise of Speculative Game Development on Itch.io. 36:1-36:12 - Anne Sullivan
, Mel Stanfill
, Anastasia Salter
, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
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Form and Function: Toward a Better Understanding of Design-Based Games. 37:1-37:16 - Mads Haahr
, Valentina Nisi
, Joris Vreeke
, Charlie Hargood
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Temporal Collisions: On the Use of Narrative Conventions from Genre Fiction for Location-Based Cultural Heritage Games. 38:1-38:9 - Max Chen
, Edward Morrell
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Exploring the Purpose and Development of Academic Games: An Analysis of Games Reported at the Foundations of Digital Games Conference (2007-2024). 39:1-39:11
Beyond Entertainment
- Qiao Zhang
, Glen Smith
, Ziyu Li
, Yuxuan Dong
, Erik Harpstead
, Christopher J. MacLellan
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Dice Adventure: An Asymmetrical Collaborative Game for Exploring the Hybrid Teaming Effects. 40:1-40:9 - Bethany Miatta Turay
, Alesandra Baca-Vázquez
, Alexandra To
, Angela D. R. Smith
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"I want to let them in": Exploring Critical Consciousness Development through Roleplay and Reflection in "Papers, Please". 41:1-41:13 - Tim Yeung
, Maximilian A. Friehs
, Marcello A. Gómez Maureira
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Mapping Practices of Academic Game Development. 42:1-42:11 - Wenjun Liu
, Charlie Hargood
, Wen Tang
, Vedad Hulusic
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Evaluating the Impact of User and Learning Experience in Three Cultural Heritage VR Applications. 43:1-43:18 - Dimitra Petousi
, Akrivi Katifori
, Pantelis Sakellariadis
, Katerina Servi
, Lori Kougioumtzian
, Georgia Koutiva
, Maria Roussou
, Yannis E. Ioannidis
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The Intersection of Play and History: Integrating Historical Content in Tabletop Role-Playing Games for Education. 44:1-44:11
Games Pedagogy
- Britton Horn
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LEGO Prototyping in an Introductory Game Development Course. 45:1-45:11 - Richard Wetzel
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Game Design Games: Designing Games for Teaching Game Design. 46:1-46:10 - Daniel Cox
, John T. Murray
, Anastasia Salter
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Routine, Twisty, and Queer: Pasts and Futures of Games Programming Pedagogy with No and Low Code Tools. 47:1-47:8
Late Breaking Short Papers
- Florian Rupp
, Kai Eckert
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Level the Level: Balancing Game Levels for Asymmetric Player Archetypes With Reinforcement Learning. 48:1-48:4 - Mathias Babin
, Michael Katchabaw
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Game Balance Through Procedural Content Generation. 49:1-49:4 - Nabeeha Ali
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Towards Custom Quest Tutorials: Identifying and Addressing Players' Cognitive and Performative Struggles in Games. 50:1-50:4 - Alison Crosby
, MJ Johns
, Katherine Isbister
, Sri Kurniawan
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Designing FEVR: a VR Game for Wildfire Evacuation Readiness. 51:1-51:4 - Soyoun Eom
, Chanuk Moon
, Ahyeong Shim
, Jooeun Kang
, JaeJun Lee
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Enhancing Game Mechanics for IP-Based Games: The IP-MDA Framework with a Case Study on the White Day Korean Horror IP. 52:1-52:5 - Melissa J. Rogerson
, Sasha Soraine
, Niels Wouters
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A Surfeit of Barbarians: Using Facial Recognition Technology to Generate a Dungeons and Dragons Character. 53:1-53:4 - Christian Feichtinger
, Michael Lankes
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Where am I? Design Pointers for Enhanced Spatial Orientation in 3D Games. 54:1-54:4 - Wieger Wittrock
, Kasia Zalewska-Kurek
, Adriana A. Zekveld
, Sophia E. Kramer
, Marcello A. Gómez Maureira
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Serious Gaming Meets Audiology: Developing a Video Game for Auditory Testing. 55:1-55:4 - Nora Bakken
, Geoffrey Gonzales
, Osvaldo Jiménez:
Noisrucer: A Student-developed Game for Recursion. 56:1-56:4 - Fandi Meng
, Simon M. Lucas
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Cluedo AI: Applying Constraint-Solving Methods to Play the Multi-Player Deduction Game Cluedo. 57:1-57:4 - Georg Palasser
, Johannes Pfau
, Alessandro Canossa
, Ahmad Azadvar
, Johanna Pirker
, Casper Harteveld
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The Elusive "Gaming Culture": Assessing Cluster Stability of Players' Experience from 26 Countries. 58:1-58:4 - Carina Weichselbraun
, Michael Holly
, Barbara Strachwitz
, Nina von Gayl
, Johanna Pirker
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Cash Action: An Educational Multiplayer Game for Teaching Financial Concepts. 59:1-59:4 - Hana Sinkovic
, Marcello A. Gómez Maureira
, Marcus Gerhold
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Affective Mirroring in Video Game NPCs: A Pilot Study Evaluating Player Engagement. 60:1-60:4 - Kitty Boakye
, Kaitlyn Tsien
, Nissi Awosanya
, Peter A. Mawhorter
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The Image of the Open World Game. 61:1-61:4 - Wayne Reynolds
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Gaming (With) the Xbox Adaptive Controller. 62:1-62:3
Workshop on Procedural Content Generation
- Oliver Withington
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Exploring the Possibility Space of 1 Billion Spells. 63:1-63:4 - Daria Protsenko
, Joris Dormans
, Riemer van Rozen
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Maintenance in Procedural Level Design: Lessons from Ludoscope. 64:1-64:4 - Jim Whitehead
, Thomas Wessel
, Blythe Chen
, Raven Cruz-James
, Luc Harnist
, William Klunder
, Justin Lam
, Ethan Lin
, Roman Luo
, Hung Nguyen
, Naitik Poddar
, Shiva Ravinutula
, Alejandro Montoreano
, Logan Shehane
, Yazmyn Sims
, Jarod Spangler
, Michelle Tan
, Zosia Trela
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Conversational Interactions with Procedural Generators using Large Language Models. 65:1-65:7 - Kaijie Xu
, Clark Verbrugge
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Constraint Is All You Need: Optimization-Based 3D Level Generation with LLMs. 66:1-66:13 - Konstantinos Sfikas
, Antonios Liapis
, Georgios N. Yannakakis
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Diverse Level Generation via Machine Learning of Quality Diversity. 67:1-67:10 - Seth Cooper
, Mahsa Bazzaz
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Stuck in the Middle: Generating Levels without (or with) Softlocks. 68:1-68:9 - Mahsa Bazzaz
, Seth Cooper
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Level Generation with Constrained Expressive Range. 69:1-69:6 - Mahsa Bazzaz
, Seth Cooper
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Analysis of Uncertainty in Procedural Maps in Slay the Spire. 70:1-70:10 - Anders Bouwer
, Riemer van Rozen
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Towards Didactics-Driven Development of Educational Games. 71:1-71:9
Workshop on Tabletop Games
- Sasha Soraine
, Melissa J. Rogerson
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Core or Chore? How Hybridity Impacts Player Experience. 72:1-72:4 - Tamara Dobler
, Lorenzo Galeotti
, Riemer van Rozen
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LogiCraft: A Game Modification Framework for Learning Propositional Logic. 73:1-73:11 - Ana Almeida
, Deise Vianna
, Carla Sousa
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Modern Board Games as a Proposal for Teaching Physics with a Focus on Science, Technology and Society (STS). 74:1-74:9 - Lori Kougioumtzian
, Christos Lougiakis
, Akrivi Katifori
, Giorgos Ganias
, Yannis E. Ioannidis
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Piecing the puzzle together: Towards improving digital tools for board game design. 75:1-75:11
xAI in Game Playing
- Leendert Johannes Tanis
, Rafael Fernandes Cunha
, Marco Zullich
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Bridging Faithfulness of Explanations and Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Grad-CAM Analysis of Space Invaders. 76:1-76:7 - Daniela De Angeli
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Creating an xAI Framework for Diverse Game Characters. 77:1-77:9

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