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2 / 7 / 2022

Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence at Develop:Brighton 12-14 July

Want to improve the relationship between your game AI and your players? Or polish your VR character’s social interaction skills? Or discuss the latest academic research in the metaverse? Or just chance a flirt with Amy Smith’s @artbhot? We are super excited to announce that @iggiphd will be attending @developconf in full force with 3 talks and over 20 researchers....

15 / 6 / 2022

iGGi Seminar - Alexander Swords

Alexander Swords is visiting us at Empire House to speak about: Narrative Design of Totem Teller Wednesday, 22 June 2022 @ 16:00-17:30 Abstract...

8 / 6 / 2022

iGGi Conference 2022

Mark the date - the next iGGi conference is coming your way! 06 - 07 September 2022 at York The iGGi Conference is an annual event organised by Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) and Staff of the iGGi Centre for Doctoral Training. This year, iGGi CON will take place 06-07 September in York (in-person event). What happens at iGGi CON?...

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16 / 5 / 2022

iGGi Studentships at QMUL - with Creative Assembly

Thinking about doing a PhD in digital games? The deadline to apply to one of our 2 advertised studentships has just been extended to Monday 13 June 2022! The positions are fully funded and full-time for four years starting September 2022 (PhD fees plus a tax-free stipend to cover living costs)....

20 / 4 / 2022

2020 Cohort Mini-Conference

The recent 2020 cohort Mini-Conference was a great success! It was held in York and focused on highlighting the work being submitted and published by the iGGi PGRs at this stage in their projects. The cohort members had a chance to meet one another (as due to the pandemic, some still had not ever met before!) and to take a deep dive in to each-other's work, sharing knowledge in a simultaneously bonding and educational trip....

30 / 1 / 2022

iGGi Game Jam 2022

We thought that with summer fast approaching and the end of term in close sight, the time would be right to reflect back on some of iGGi’s more iGGi-ish events which took place earlier this year. One such event was the iGGi Game Jam. iGGi PGRs gather once a year to create a game from scratch in a limited space of time (usually over 48 hours)....

8 / 12 / 2021

iGGi Open Evening at QMUL

iGGi QMUL is spontaneously running an Open Evening event on 15 December 2021 at 6pm Empire House (Whitechapel Campus) https://goo.gl/maps/dquCpQHtSuTN7YD9A We will showcase some of the ongoing research of...

9 / 11 / 2021

iGGi Seminar Series: Recordings of no 1-4

OUT NOW! – We’ve just released the recordings of our 1st four iGGi Seminars: once a month a panel of guest speakers + iGGi PhD researchers discuss a topic relevant to games industry/research. Here's the playlist: ...

18 / 10 / 2021

iGGi @ Develop:Brighton - featuring Joe Hesketh

An iGGi delegation of six PhD Researchers (comprising Timea Farkas, Charline Foch, Joseph Hesketh, Jozef Kulik, Cristiana Pacheco, Elena P...

16 / 10 / 2021

Application Window Opens for IGGI Studentships 2022

IGGI’s recruitment round for September 2022 entry is now open! We are seeking 12 diverse and motivated individuals who feel they will benefit from the IGGI community and who wish to conduct interdisciplinary research in digital games. Applications can be submitted any time before the (strict) closing date of Thursday, 27 January 2022 at 12:00 noon (GMT) Go to Apply for more info. ...

9 / 10 / 2021

Nuffield Research Placement

IGGI was taking part for the first time in the Nuffield Research Placement scheme this year: IGGI PhD researchers were supervising keen A-level students from across the country so that the students could gain an insight into scientific research work....

8 / 10 / 2021

2021 iGGi Brochure

The 2021 iGGi Brochure lists profiles of all iGGi Researchers who actively participated in this year's iGGi Conference. Click to read on.

1 / 10 / 2021

NATS - iGGi Collaboration showcased at NATS Research Conference

A recent collaboration between the University of York and NATS, the UK's leading provider of air traffic control services, is being shown at NATS’ Virtual Research Collaboration Conference....

17 / 9 / 2021

iGGi 2021 CON

The iGGi 2021 Conference concluded last week and we look upon two days fully packed with...

7 / 9 / 2021

IGGI 2021 Conference start

The IGGI 2021 Conference will kick-start tomorrow with a promising looking schedule of exiting speakers for our Panels, 18 Talks, 2 Workshops, and the traditional IGGI Buzz Talks, all spread over two days. Don't miss out and join us online on Gather.Town ...

8 / 7 / 2021

iGGi conference 2021

Mark the date for our next IGGI Conference: 08 - 09 September 2021 PhD students discuss and showcase their research into new technologies and directions for games. Come along and find out about new ideas, meet future employees, and steer the direction of research in the world’s largest games PhD programme. Click for Tickets and more info here - coming soon ...

Expressivity of Parameterized and Data-driven Representations in Quality Diversity Search

27 / 6 / 2021

How does machine learning affect diversity in evolutionary search?

Procedural content generation of video games levels has greatly benefited from machine learning. In such complex domains, generative models can provide representation spaces for evolutionary search. But how expressive are such learned models? How many different levels would they be able to produce? A new paper, co-authored by IGGI PhD researcher Sebastian Berns and Professor Simon Colton, looks at the limitations of generative models in the context of multi-solution optimisation....

25 / 4 / 2021

3 IGGI Studentships on QMUL Campus for Sep start - Apply by 31st May 2021

Ever thought of studying for a PhD in Games? Do you have a deep fascination for what we can learn about how people play games and what people get from playing games? A passion for AI and how it can be used to make games better? A desire to make richer, more affective soundscapes for games? A wish to make games that are more tailored for the individual? ...

1 / 4 / 2021

IGGI on Industry Impact

As the Easter Break is approaching fast, IGGI Year 1 students can report the successful conclusion of the last in a total of four modules: The Impact and Engagement Training. The course (usually held at Queen Mary University of London) was online this year, running over two weeks. The module encourages students to explore the potential impact of their research on the games industry in view of different aspects such as creativity, society, culture, economy, politics, etc....

10 / 11 / 2020

IGGI Studentship Admissions Workshop - Q&A Session

The IGGI student Admissions Workshop took place on the 26 November 2020. If you are looking to apply to IGGI but were unable to join us for this event, we will shortly post the Q&As from the day here on the IGGI website. We hope that these will be useful for guiding you through developing a research proposal and provide further information about the IGGI Programme. ...

12 / 10 / 2020

IGGI students and staff at the 2019 IGGI Conference

The annual IGGI conference assembles is your games research download from 50+ PhD students at York, Goldsmiths, QMUL, and Essex Universities. The conference is usually held in September.

12 / 10 / 2020

Welcome to the new IGGI website

Our new IGGI website was launched in early October 2020 and over the next few weeks and months we will be adding further information and content to these pages. If you are an IGGI partner, student, supervisor or member of staff and would like to add content including updates to your profile, news items, etc., please email iggi-website@york.ac.uk ...

9 / 10 / 2020

A Word from the Director

Welcome to IGGI! Below are a few words about the vision for IGGI, about who funds IGGI and why, and about why IGGI can be a force for good in a sometimes turbulent world. IGGI is short for the “EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence” (EPSRC is short for “Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council”). You can see why the name IGGI stuck!...