Procedural Content Generation (PCG) refers to creating content algorithmically as opposed to manually. PCG research is a sub-area of AI research, and existed long before deep neural networks popularized the term “Generative AI”. The goal of the PCG AI research program is to explore and use of AI techniques in support of the generating of content required for games, serious games and educational applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Matthew McConnell,\u00a0Richard Zhao.\u00a0From Frustration to Fun: An Adaptive Problem-Solving Puzzle Game Powered by Genetic Algorithm<\/a>.\u00a0Proceedings of the Twenty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-25)<\/em>, Edmonton, Canada, November, 2025, p277-286. [Link<\/a>] [Video Demo<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mahdi Farrokhimaleki,\u00a0Parsa Rahmati,\u00a0Richard Zhao.\u00a0From Unstable to Playable: Stabilizing Angry Birds Levels via Object Segmentation<\/a>.\u00a0Proceedings of the Twenty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-25)<\/em>, Edmonton, Canada, November, 2025, p227-236. [Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mahdi Farrokhimaleki,\u00a0Richard Zhao.\u00a0Procedural Content Generation in Games: A Survey with Insights on Emerging LLM Integration<\/a>.\u00a0Proceedings of the Twentieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-24)<\/em>, Lexington, USA, November, 2024. [Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Extended Abstract:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Matthew McConnell,\u00a0Richard Zhao.\u00a0A Demonstration of Pathfinding-Based Puzzle Generation with Adaptive Difficulty<\/a>. Proceedings of the Twenty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-25), Edmonton, Canada, November, 2025, p396-398. [Link<\/a>] [Video Demo<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Procedural Content Generation (PCG) refers to creating content algorithmically as opposed to manually. PCG research is a sub-area of AI research, and existed long before deep neural networks popularized the term “Generative AI”. The goal …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1119","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1119\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}