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Semi-Supervised Tile Embeddings: A General, Multigame Level Representation 半监督贴图嵌入：一种通用的多游戏关卡表示

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IEEE Transactions on Games Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1109/TG.2025.3617866

Venkata Sai Revanth Atmakuri;Kian Razavi Satvati;Anurag Sarkar;Matthew Guzdial

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DPBL: Denoised Player Behavior Representation Learning DPBL：去噪玩家行为表征学习

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IEEE Transactions on Games Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-21 DOI: 10.1109/TG.2025.3601181

Wenbin Li;Di Yao;Zijie Xu;Chang Gong;Quanliang Jing;Shiwei Zhao;Runze Wu;Haining Tan;Zhipeng Hu;Tangjie Lv;Changjie Fan;Jingping Bi

{"title":"DPBL: Denoised Player Behavior Representation Learning","authors":"Wenbin Li;Di Yao;Zijie Xu;Chang Gong;Quanliang Jing;Shiwei Zhao;Runze Wu;Haining Tan;Zhipeng Hu;Tangjie Lv;Changjie Fan;Jingping Bi","doi":"10.1109/TG.2025.3601181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TG.2025.3601181","url":null,"abstract":"The video game industry has emerged as a significant economic force, driving extensive research on optimizing the gaming environment and improving gaming experiences. Among these endeavors, player behavior representation learning has become a critical way to model valuable player properties and is beneficial for a wide range of downstream tasks. However, some common factors, such as login rewards and daily tasks, can trigger similar behaviors among different players, which are informative and noisy for learning high-quality player behavior representations. Existing methods ignore the low signal-to-noise ratio in player behavior data and waste too much modeling capacity on less informative behaviors, resulting in their learned representations being noisy. In this article, we propose a novel model for denoised player behavior representation learning (DPBL), which consists of two key modules. The first module extracts various player behavior patterns and isolates them from less informative noise. The second module utilizes the extracted patterns to refine the embedding of each behavior and eliminates noise. To optimize DPBL, two contrastive learning strategies are proposed to identify the noise that should be eliminated and to learn distinguishable representations, respectively. With the above design, DPBL is capable of mitigating the impact of noise in the data and learning high-quality representations that effectively capture player characteristics. We conducted extensive experiments on two real-world datasets, and DPBL outperforms all baselines on various downstream tasks with an improvement of <inline-formula><tex-math>$text{1.4}% !!-!! text{18.1}%$</tex-math></inline-formula>. The results also show that DPBL achieves an improvement of <inline-formula><tex-math>$text{5.6}% !!-!! text{23.0}%$</tex-math></inline-formula> in the denoising experiments, which proves that DPBL is more robust to noisy behaviors.","PeriodicalId":55977,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Games","volume":"18 1","pages":"44-55"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147557853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Adapting to Teammates in a Cooperative Language Game 在合作语言游戏中适应队友

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IEEE Transactions on Games Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-17 DOI: 10.1109/TG.2025.3622582

Christopher Archibald;Spencer Brosnahan;Diego Blaylock

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Uncovering the Viral Nature of Toxicity in Competitive Online Video Games 揭示竞争性在线电子游戏毒性的病毒本质

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IEEE Transactions on Games Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1109/TG.2025.3640698

Jacob Morrier;Amine Mahmassani;R. Michael Alvarez

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A Review of Realistic Weather Simulation Systems in Video Games: From Scripted Skies to Dynamic Storms 回顾电子游戏中的现实天气模拟系统：从脚本天空到动态风暴

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IEEE Transactions on Games Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-19 DOI: 10.1109/TG.2025.3646203

Chetan Mudlapur;Om Prakash Singh

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More Plays than Atoms in the Universe: The Digitization of a 19th-Century Generator for One-Act Comedies 比宇宙中的原子还多的戏剧：19世纪独幕喜剧的数字化

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IEEE Transactions on Games Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1109/TG.2025.3608847

Viktor Jonathan Illmer;Dîlan Canan Çakir;Frank Fischer;Mark Schwindt;Jonas Rohe

{"title":"More Plays than Atoms in the Universe: The Digitization of a 19th-Century Generator for One-Act Comedies","authors":"Viktor Jonathan Illmer;Dîlan Canan Çakir;Frank Fischer;Mark Schwindt;Jonas Rohe","doi":"10.1109/TG.2025.3608847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TG.2025.3608847","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we describe a German-language literary automaton from the first half of the 19th century, which can generate over <inline-formula><tex-math>$4 times {{10}^{155}}$</tex-math></inline-formula> German-language one-act plays, far exceeding the number of atoms in the universe. The 1,200 text pieces serving as a source for the generator were printed in the 1829 book, <italic>Neunhundert neun und neunzig und noch etliche Almanachs-Lustspiele durch den Würfel (English: <italic>Rolling the Dice for 999 and Many More Almanac Comedies), where they are arranged at random. The book is supplemented by a table that assigns each piece from the book to consecutive dice rolls, thus generating a complete, unique play in 200 dice rolls altogether. One-act plays of the 18th and early 19th centuries, popular in their time, are often overlooked today. Georg Nikolaus Bärmann, author of the comedy-generating book, recognized the high demand for such plays when creating his printed drama machine, which, according to his often ironic claims, was able to produce one-act plays for 133 years of reading. Our project demonstrates how historical cultural practices can be transferred into modern digital applications, offering a perspective on the intersection of gamification, cultural heritage, and interactivity in both historical and contemporary contexts. We describe the multistage digitization of Bärmann’s work and the development of a web application that allows us to experience the analog game in a digital environment.","PeriodicalId":55977,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Games","volume":"18 1","pages":"207-210"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147558043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Unlocking the Metaverse: A Gateway to Multiplayer Game via 3-D Object Security Technologies 解锁虚拟世界：通过3d对象安全技术进入多人游戏

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IEEE Transactions on Games Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-28 DOI: 10.1109/TG.2025.3626576

Shimin Li;Xiangli Xiao;Ruoyu Zhao;Shuang Yi;Qingxiao Guan;Yushu Zhang

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On the Communication Problems of Virtual Reality: Responsiveness, Timeliness, and Effectiveness 虚拟现实的沟通问题：响应性、时效性和有效性

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IEEE Transactions on Games Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1109/TG.2025.3607753

Costas Michaelides;Boris Bellalta

{"title":"On the Communication Problems of Virtual Reality: Responsiveness, Timeliness, and Effectiveness","authors":"Costas Michaelides;Boris Bellalta","doi":"10.1109/TG.2025.3607753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TG.2025.3607753","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we explore communication problems in virtual reality (VR) systems from the perspective of wireless networking. Our starting point is that the dynamics of real-time interaction between the physical and virtual worlds cannot be fully captured by the frame rate. Particularly, the frame rate can be very high, but the actual user experience can be disappointing. We argue that the key idea is to think of VR as the mediator of the senses, especially vision, rather than a conventional video streaming application. This is indeed a remarkable opportunity to recall Weaver’s classification and define three fundamental problems in VR systems: first, responsiveness, second, timeliness, and third, effectiveness. Responsiveness refers to the delay between an action in the physical world and its display in the virtual world. Timeliness is related to the frequency of updates imposed by the frame rate. Effectiveness considers the visual content of a video frame and its likelihood of extrapolation. Our framework offers a concise and objective description of VR systems, that allows us to evaluate performance, identify potential issues, and design impactful solutions.","PeriodicalId":55977,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Games","volume":"18 1","pages":"66-76"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11153886","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147557936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Emotional Design Through Visual Aesthetics in Serious Games: A Scoping Review 严肃游戏中基于视觉美学的情感设计

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IEEE Transactions on Games Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-14 DOI: 10.1109/TG.2025.3621014

Leonie Kallabis;Bruno Baruque-Zanón;Heinrich Klocke;Ana María Lara-Palma;Boris Naujoks

{"title":"Emotional Design Through Visual Aesthetics in Serious Games: A Scoping Review","authors":"Leonie Kallabis;Bruno Baruque-Zanón;Heinrich Klocke;Ana María Lara-Palma;Boris Naujoks","doi":"10.1109/TG.2025.3621014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TG.2025.3621014","url":null,"abstract":"The intersection of emotions with games and learning has been a focal point of considerable research in recent years. Employing emotional design through visual aesthetics, particularly within multimedia learning and serious games, is gaining attention due to its potential impact on player motivation, learning outcomes, and overall experience. Given the multidisciplinary nature of these topics, a comprehensive overview of progress is needed. This work presents a scoping review on this intersection, highlights design implications for serious games, and identifies crucial research gaps. A scoping review following the PRISMA statement was conducted, identifying 35 relevant publications, classified into three categories: player responses, models, and game design. The review shows that incorporating visual aesthetics in serious games can enhance the player experience without compromising learning outcomes and are an effective elicitor of emotions that positively impact learning. Design implications for specific visual elements are identified, particularly color and character design, and research gaps discussed. These gaps include the need for systematic studies and the development of best practices. Overall, this scoping review underscores the potential of emotional design through visual aesthetics in serious games, emphasizing the need for further research to advance in this complex interdisciplinary field.","PeriodicalId":55977,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Games","volume":"18 1","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147558024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Study of Solving Life-and-Death Problems in Go Using Relevance-Zone-Based Solvers 基于关联区域的围棋生死问题求解方法研究

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IEEE Transactions on Games Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-24 DOI: 10.1109/TG.2025.3648019

Chung-Chin Shih;Ti-Rong Wu;Ting Han Wei;Yu-Shan Hsu;Hung Guei;I-Chen Wu

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