Matthew Guzdial

Learn more about the research and work of Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Matt Guzdial and his work on artificial intelligence and investigates how artificial intelligence can support human creativity.

Will intelligent tutoring agents replace game tutorials? Can AI models assist level designers and still keep the designer’s creative style? Dive into the AI research shaping video games.

Video games have long been a domain explored by AI researchers, and researchers from Amii have a rich history producing advancements that can help across all aspects of game design, development and delivery.

As part of the January 2021 AICan, Amii is pleased to welcome 15 new Canada CIFAR AI Chairs into our research community.

This paper proposes the use of images as the input for a PCGML process to generate game levels. Intuitively, a user can submit an image, with the system returning the closest valid Super Mario Bros. game level.

Human designers may find it difficult to anticipate the impact of small changes to some games, particularly in puzzle games. However, it is not difficult for computers to simulate all mechanical impacts of such small changes. This suggests that computers might be able to aid humans designers as they build and analyze game levels.