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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Win Prediction in Multiplayer Esports: Live Professional Match Prediction	42
Automated Video Game Testing Using Synthetic and Humanlike Agents	34
Creating Pro-Level AI for a Real-Time Fighting Game Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	32
Real-Time Prediction of Simulator Sickness in Virtual Reality Games	24
Generating Role-Playing Game Quests With GPT Language Models	20
Prediction of Player Churn and Disengagement Based on User Activity Data of a Freemium Online Strategy Game	18
Gaming Beyond the Novelty Effect of Immersive Virtual Reality for Physical Rehabilitation	18
Game Strategies for Physical Robot Soccer Players: A Survey	16
What Causes Wrong Sentiment Classifications of Game Reviews?	16
Interpretable Real-Time Win Prediction for Honor of Kings—A Popular Mobile MOBA Esport	15
Does Winning or Losing Change Players’ Engagement in Competitive Games? Experiments in Virtual Reality	15
A Novel Evolutionary Algorithm With Column and Sub-Block Local Search for Sudoku Puzzles	15
Impact of Visual and Sound Orchestration on Physiological Arousal and Tension in a Horror Game	15
A Comparison of Mobile VR Display Running on an Ordinary Smartphone With Standard PC Display for P300-BCI Stimulus Presentation	15
An Empirical Study of Trends of Popular Virtual Reality Games and Their Complaints	15
Full-Body Motion Recognition in Immersive- Virtual-Reality-Based Exergame	14
AI World Cup: Robot-Soccer-Based Competitions	14
Enhanced Rolling Horizon Evolution Algorithm With Opponent Model Learning: Results for the Fighting Game AI Competition	14
Automated Gameplay Testing and Validation With Curiosity-Conditioned Proximal Trajectories	13
Video-Based Engagement Estimation of Game Streamers: An Interpretable Multimodal Neural Network Approach	13
Video Game Automated Testing Approaches: An Assessment Framework	13
Games for Change—A Comparative Systematic Review of Persuasive Strategies in Games for Behavior Change	12
Are Exergames Exercise? A Scoping Review of the Short-Term Effects of Exertion Games	12
Explainable AI for Cheating Detection and Churn Prediction in Online Games	12
Designing Game Feel: A Survey	11

The Anesthesia Crisis Scenario Builder for Authoring Anesthesia Crisis-Based Simulations	11
Keep Calm and Aim for the Head: Biofeedback-Controlled Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in a Horror Game	11
RFM-LIR Feature Framework for Churn Prediction in the Mobile Games Market	11
Impact of Full-Body Avatars in Immersive Multiplayer Virtual Reality Training for Police Forces	11
A Multifaceted Surrogate Model for Search-Based Procedural Content Generation	11
“Bad Vibrations”: Sensing Toxicity From In-Game Audio Features	11
Analysis, Design, and Prototypical Implementation of a Serious Game Reha@Stroke to Support Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients With the Help of a Mobile Phone	11
A Distributed Multiplayer Game to Promote Active Transport at Workplaces: User-Centered Design, Implementation, and Lessons Learned	11
WaveFunctionCollapse: Content Generation via Constraint Solving and Machine Learning	10
Which Heroes to Pick? Learning to Draft in MOBA Games With Neural Networks and Tree Search	10
Method for Constructing Artificial Intelligence Player With Abstractions to Markov Decision Processes in Multiplayer Game ofMahjong	10
Open-Ended Evolution for Minecraft Building Generation	9
GAMEREHAB@HOME: A New Engineering System Using Serious Game and Multisensor Fusion for Functional Rehabilitation at Home	9
Development of an Indoor Exergame Based on Moving-Target Hitting Task for COVID-19 Epidemic: A Comparison Between AR and VR Mode	9
Increasing Engagement With Engineering Escape Rooms	9
A Game AI Competition to Foster Collaborative AI Research and Development	8
Gender, Gaming Motives, and Genre: Comparing Singaporean, German, and American Players	8
Multiattribute Decision-Making in Wargames Leveraging the Entropy–Weight Method in Conjunction With Deep Reinforcement Learning	8
On Mixed-Initiative Content Creation for Video Games	8
Predicting Events in MOBA Games: Prediction, Attribution, and Evaluation	8
Requirements for Location-Based Games for Social Interaction	8
Efficient Reinforcement Learning for StarCraft by Abstract Forward Models and Transfer Learning	8
Discriminative Neural Network for Hero Selection in Professional Heroes of the Storm and DOTA 2	8
Generation of Game Stages With Quality and Diversity by Reinforcement Learning in Turn-Based RPG	7
Machine Learning Methods for Predicting League of Legends Game Outcome	7
Fammeal: A Gamified Mobile Application for Parents and Children to Help Healthcare Centers Treat Childhood Obesity	7
Modeling Player Knowledge in a Parallel Programming Educational Game	7
Staying Motivated During Difficult Times: A Snapshot of Serious Games for Paediatric Cancer Patients	7
On the Robustness of Stealth Assessment	7
More Trees or Larger Trees: Parallelizing Monte Carlo Tree Search	7
Play With One’s Feelings: A Study on Emotion Awareness for Player Experience	7
Beyond Genre: Classifying Virtual Reality Experiences	7
Dungeons & Replicants II: Automated Game Balancing Across Multiple Difficulty Dimensions via Deep Player Behavior Modeling	7
Balancing Turn-Based Games With Chained Strategy Generation	6
Mobile Networks for Computer Go	6
Interactive Constrained MAP-Elites: Analysis and Evaluation of the Expressiveness of the Feature Dimensions	6
Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing	6
SuSketch: Surrogate Models of Gameplay as a Design Assistant	6
EEG-Induced Autonomous Game-Teaching to a Robot Arm by Human Trainers Using Reinforcement Learning	6
Operationalizing Intentionality to Play Hanabi With Human Players	6
Learning and Motivational Impact of Using a Virtual Reality Serious Video Game to Learn Scrum	6
Toward Designer Modeling Through Design Style Clustering	6
An Augmented Reality Implementation of the Pong Game	6
Game or Watch: The Effect of Interactivity on Arousal and Engagement in Video Game Media	6
Cultural Insights in Souls-like Games: Analyzing Player Behaviors, Perspectives, and Emotions Across a Multicultural Context	6
Procedural Level Generation for Sokoban via Deep Learning: An Experimental Study	5
CTDS: Centralized Teacher With Decentralized Student for Multiagent Reinforcement Learning	5
Exploring the Balance Between Computational Thinking and Learning Motivation in Elementary Programming Education: An Empirical Study With Game-Based Learning	5
Danesh: Interactive Tools for Understanding Procedural Content Generators	5
Student-Initiated Action Advising via Advice Novelty	5

Winning Rate Prediction Model Based on Monte Carlo Tree Search for Computer Dou Dizhu	5
User-Centered Design of a Scenario-Based Serious Game: Game-Based Teaching of Future Healthcare	5
Exception-Tolerant Hierarchical Knowledge Bases for Forward Model Learning	5
Olivaw: Mastering Othello Without Human Knowledge, nor a Fortune	5
Optimistic Temporal Difference Learning for 2048	5
The Influence of Social Ties on Performance in Team-Based Online Games	5
TOAD-GAN: A Flexible Framework for Few-Shot Level Generation in Token-Based Games	5
Attention-Based Intrinsic Reward Mixing Network for Credit Assignment in Multiagent Reinforcement Learning	4
A Comparison of Self-Play Algorithms Under a Generalized Framework	4
Using Simple Design Features to Recapture the Essence of Real-Time Strategy Games	4
Using Evolutionary Algorithms to Target Complexity Levels in Game Economies	4
Model-Free Neural Counterfactual Regret Minimization With Bootstrap Learning	4
Does Improved Sound Rendering Increase Player Performance? A Graph-Based Spatial Audio Framework	4
A Formal Approach to Distinguish Games, Toys, Serious Games and Toys, Serious Repurposing and Modding, and Simulators	4
Trading Behind-the-Scene: Analysis of Online Gold Farming Network in the Auction House System	4
Opening the Black Box of Team Performance With Open-Source Games: A Review and Recommendations	4
Evaluating Mixed-Initiative Procedural Level Design Tools Using a Triple-Blind Mixed-Method User Study	4
Generating Stable Building Block Structures From Sketches	3
Utilizing Players’ Playtime Records for Churn Prediction: Mining Playtime Regularity	3
Go-Explore Complex 3-D Game Environments for Automated Reachability Testing	3
RaidEnv: Exploring New Challenges in Automated Content Balancing for Boss Raid Games	3
Mouse Sensitivity in First-Person Targeting Tasks	3
Lamarckian Platform: Pushing the Boundaries of Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning Toward Asynchronous Commercial Games	3
Evolutionary Optimization of Cooperative Strategies for the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma	3
Measuring Control to Dynamically Induce Flow in Tetris	3
Reinforcement Learning With Dual-Observation for General Video Game Playing	3
Toward Stress Detection During Gameplay: A Survey	3
Hybrid Encoding for Generating Large Scale Game Level Patterns With Local Variations	3
Procedural Generation of Narrative Worlds	3
Static Rectangle Expansion A^*Algorithm for Pathfinding	3
Subjective and Objective Analysis of Streamed Gaming Videos	3
Match Our Cities: Cross-Location-Based Games to Enable Simultaneous Multiplayer	3
A Deep Learning-Based Multidimensional Aesthetic Quality Assessment Method for Mobile Game Images	3
DIJS: Methodology for the Design and Development of Digital Educational Serious Games	3
Peer Incentive Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Multiagent Games	3
Conceptual Game Expansion	3
An Experimental Survey on Methods for Integrating Scripts Into Adversarial Search for RTS Games	3
Deep Learning Techniques for Explainable Resource Scales in Collectible Card Games	3
Overtaking Uncertainty With Evolutionary TORCS Controllers: Combining BLX With Decreasing $\alpha$ Operator and Grand Prix Selection	3
Gamification of Online Surveys: A Systematic Mapping	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
Seeing the Invisible: A VR Approach to Radiation Attenuation Visualization for Nuclear Engineering Laboratory Practices	3
The 1^st ChatGPT4PCG Competition	3
Educating Youth About Human Impact on Freshwater Ecosystems Using an Online Serious Game	3