OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of IEEE Transactions on Games is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Deep Learning for Video Game Playing	104
A Mobile Game for Automatic Emotion-Labeling of Images	46
Automated Video Game Testing Using Synthetic and Humanlike Agents	31
Win Prediction in Multiplayer Esports: Live Professional Match Prediction	29
Procedural Puzzle Generation: A Survey	27
Toward Personalized Adaptive Gamification: A Machine Learning Model for Predicting Performance	27
Creating Pro-Level AI for a Real-Time Fighting Game Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	25
Profit Optimizing Churn Prediction for Long-Term Loyal Customers in Online Games	21
Winning Is Not Everything: Enhancing Game Development With Intelligent Agents	18
Adaptive Music Composition for Games	16
Infinite Loot Box: A Platform for Simulating Video Game Loot Boxes	15
Real-Time Prediction of Simulator Sickness in Virtual Reality Games	14
Game Strategies for Physical Robot Soccer Players: A Survey	14
Prediction of Player Churn and Disengagement Based on User Activity Data of a Freemium Online Strategy Game	13
Generating Role-Playing Game Quests With GPT Language Models	13
Impact of Visual and Sound Orchestration on Physiological Arousal and Tension in a Horror Game	13
A Comparison of Mobile VR Display Running on an Ordinary Smartphone With Standard PC Display for P300-BCI Stimulus Presentation	13
Interpretable Real-Time Win Prediction for Honor of Kings—A Popular Mobile MOBA Esport	12
Enhanced Rolling Horizon Evolution Algorithm With Opponent Model Learning: Results for the Fighting Game AI Competition	12
Does Winning or Losing Change Players’ Engagement in Competitive Games? Experiments in Virtual Reality	12
“Are You Playing a Shooter Again?!” Deep Representation Learning for Audio-Based Video Game Genre Recognition	12
Self-Adaptive Monte Carlo Tree Search in General Game Playing	11
Gaming Beyond the Novelty Effect of Immersive Virtual Reality for Physical Rehabilitation	11
Are Exergames Exercise? A Scoping Review of the Short-Term Effects of Exertion Games	11
What Causes Wrong Sentiment Classifications of Game Reviews?	11

Video Game Development in a Rush: A Survey of the Global Game Jam Participants	11
AI World Cup: Robot-Soccer-Based Competitions	10
Impact of Full-Body Avatars in Immersive Multiplayer Virtual Reality Training for Police Forces	10
A Multifaceted Surrogate Model for Search-Based Procedural Content Generation	10
Analysis, Design, and Prototypical Implementation of a Serious Game Reha@Stroke to Support Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients With the Help of a Mobile Phone	9
Video Game Automated Testing Approaches: An Assessment Framework	9
Solving Sudoku With Ant Colony Optimization	9
Staying Motivated During Difficult Times: A Snapshot of Serious Games for Paediatric Cancer Patients	8
Increasing Engagement With Engineering Escape Rooms	8
A Game Design Plot: Exploring the Educational Potential of History-Based Video Games	8
A Distributed Multiplayer Game to Promote Active Transport at Workplaces: User-Centered Design, Implementation, and Lessons Learned	8
Dual Indicators to Analyze AI Benchmarks: Difficulty, Discrimination, Ability, and Generality	8
Games for Change—A Comparative Systematic Review of Persuasive Strategies in Games for Behavior Change	8
The Anesthesia Crisis Scenario Builder for Authoring Anesthesia Crisis-Based Simulations	8
Explainable AI for Cheating Detection and Churn Prediction in Online Games	8
Method for Constructing Artificial Intelligence Player With Abstractions to Markov Decision Processes in Multiplayer Game ofMahjong	7
REAL: Reality-Enhanced Applied Games	7
GAMEREHAB@HOME: A New Engineering System Using Serious Game and Multisensor Fusion for Functional Rehabilitation at Home	7
Full-Body Motion Recognition in Immersive- Virtual-Reality-Based Exergame	7
Designing Game Feel: A Survey	7
Automated Gameplay Testing and Validation with Curiosity-Conditioned Proximal Trajectories	7
A Novel Evolutionary Algorithm with Column and Sub-Block Local Search for Sudoku Puzzles	7
On the Robustness of Stealth Assessment	7
Requirements for Location-Based Games for Social Interaction	6
Crawling in Rogue's Dungeons With Deep Reinforcement Techniques	6
“Bad Vibrations”: Sensing Toxicity From In-Game Audio Features	6
More Trees or Larger Trees: Parallelizing Monte Carlo Tree Search	6
Play With One’s Feelings: A Study on Emotion Awareness for Player Experience	6
Keep Calm and Aim for the Head: Biofeedback-Controlled Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in a Horror Game	6
SuSketch: Surrogate Models of Gameplay as a Design Assistant	6
Discriminative Neural Network for Hero Selection in Professional Heroes of the Storm and DOTA 2	6
Multi-attribute decision-making in wargames leveraging the Entropy-Weight method in conjunction with deep reinforcement learning	6
Which Heroes to Pick? Learning to Draft in MOBA Games With Neural Networks and Tree Search	6
Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing	6
RFM-LIR Feature Framework for Churn Prediction in the Mobile Games Market	6
Fammeal: A Gamified Mobile Application for Parents and Children to Help Healthcare Centers Treat Childhood Obesity	6
An Augmented Reality Implementation of the Pong Game	5
A Game AI Competition to Foster Collaborative AI Research and Development	5
Gender, Gaming Motives, and Genre: Comparing Singaporean, German, and American Players	5
Open-Ended Evolution for Minecraft Building Generation	5
Interactive Constrained MAP-Elites: Analysis and Evaluation of the Expressiveness of the Feature Dimensions	5
WaveFunctionCollapse: Content Generation via Constraint Solving and Machine Learning	5
Development of an Indoor Exergame Based on Moving-Target Hitting Task for COVID-19 Epidemic: A Comparison Between AR and VR Mode	5
Operationalizing Intentionality to Play Hanabi With Human Players	5
The Influence of Social Ties on Performance in Team-Based Online Games	5
An Empirical Study of Trends of Popular Virtual Reality Games and Their Complaints	5
Modeling Player Knowledge in a Parallel Programming Educational Game	4
Generation of Game Stages With Quality and Diversity by Reinforcement Learning in Turn-Based RPG	4
User-Centered Design of a Scenario-Based Serious Game: Game-Based Teaching of Future Healthcare	4
Procedural Generation of Multistory Buildings With Interior	4

TOAD-GAN: A Flexible Framework for Few-Shot Level Generation in Token-Based Games	4
Evaluating Mixed-Initiative Procedural Level Design Tools Using a Triple-Blind Mixed-Method User Study	4
Does Improved Sound Rendering Increase Player Performance? A Graph-Based Spatial Audio Framework	4
Olivaw: Mastering Othello Without Human Knowledge, nor a Fortune	4
Dungeons & Replicants II: Automated Game Balancing Across Multiple Difficulty Dimensions via Deep Player Behavior Modeling	4
Balancing Turn-Based Games With Chained Strategy Generation	4
Exception-Tolerant Hierarchical Knowledge Bases for Forward Model Learning	4
Using Simple Design Features to Recapture the Essence of Real-Time Strategy Games	4
Mobile Networks for Computer Go	4
Exploring the Balance Between Computational Thinking and Learning Motivation in Elementary Programming Education: An Empirical Study With Game-Based Learning	4
On Mixed-Initiative Content Creation for Video Games	4
Trading Behind-the-Scene: Analysis of Online Gold Farming Network in the Auction House System	4
Model-Free Neural Counterfactual Regret Minimization With Bootstrap Learning	3
Construction of Strongly Mutually Distinct Sudoku Tables and Solid Sudoku Cubes by Cyclotomic Cosets	3
Overtaking Uncertainty With Evolutionary TORCS Controllers: Combining BLX With Decreasing $\alpha$ Operator and Grand Prix Selection	3
Lamarckian Platform: Pushing the Boundaries of Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning Towards Asynchronous Commercial Games	3
Learning the Game of Go by Scalable Network Without Prior Knowledge of Komi	3
EEG-Induced Autonomous Game-Teaching to a Robot Arm by Human Trainers Using Reinforcement Learning	3
AutoRhythm: A Music Game With Automatic Hit-Timing Generation and Percussion Identification	3
Evolutionary Optimization of Cooperative Strategies for the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma	3
Learning and Motivational Impact of Using a Virtual Reality Serious Video Game to Learn Scrum	3
Generating Stable Building Block Structures From Sketches	3
A Comparison of Self-Play Algorithms Under a Generalized Framework	3
Toward Designer Modeling Through Design Style Clustering	3
Match Our Cities: Cross-Location-Based Games to Enable Simultaneous Multiplayer	3
Manipulating Narrative Salience in Interactive Stories Using Indexter's Pairwise Event Salience Hypothesis	3
Improving Solvability for Procedurally Generated Challenges in Physical Solitaire Games Through Entangled Components	3
Beyond Genre: Classifying Virtual Reality Experiences	3
Efficient Reinforcement Learning for StarCraft by Abstract Forward Models and Transfer Learning	3
Procedural Generation of Narrative Worlds	3
Deep Learning Techniques for Explainable Resource Scales in Collectible Card Games	3
Static Rectangle Expansion A^*Algorithm for Pathfinding	3
Opening the Black Box of Team Performance With Open-Source Games: A Review and Recommendations	3
Subjective and Objective Analysis of Streamed Gaming Videos	3
Bespoke Exergames for Balance Improvement and Fall Risk Reduction in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials	3
Winning Rate Prediction Model Based on Monte Carlo Tree Search for Computer Dou Dizhu	3
Game or Watch: The Effect of Interactivity on Arousal and Engagement in Video Game Media	3
Reinforcement Learning to Create Value and Policy Functions Using Minimax Tree Search in Hex	3