AI Researcher David Melhart, Phd

extreme yoga ultimaterole: game design, game dev & programming, graphic design

Extreme Yoga Ultimate is a tech demo for the popularisation of affective computing in game design and development.

The game is based on Tobii Eyetracking technology and was designed to give a quick presentable and hands-free preview into using physiological sensors for controlling games.

onirikonrole: graphic design

Onirikon is a puzzle game where you take control a Frenchman. Eating cheese will increase your weight, while drinking a healthy glass of wine will reduce your weight. To pass certain areas you'll need to be either thin or big. If you find the exit, you win.

A genetic algorithm evolves the levels to produce progressively harder levels. The fitness function optimizes for levels that require more A* search optimizations to find the shortest path. It guarantees that the random initial trajectory remains a valid solution through the course of optimization.

the ship of babelrole: game design & graphic design

Build and repair the spaceship you are trapped on with other aliens. Your life depends on communicating with other aliens in the same ship, but you don't speak the same language so you need to make your own language with the symbols available and coordinate the work.

flying frenzyrole: Team Lead, Project Management, Game Design, Graphic Design & JavaScript Development

Flying Frenzy is a short and simple infinite runner-like app made on the extremely tight deadline of 8 to 10 hours. The project was completed with an extreme lean development strategy, with the only commitment being smooth controls. The game went trhough quick iterations and the art was finalised only an hour or so before deadline.

Flying Frenzy won the friendly comptetition at the Multidisciplinary Game Research, Utrecht University Summer School at the Dutch Game Garden for its polish and dev strategy.

Learn to Machine LearnWebdesign, Logo Design

The “Learn to Machine Learn” (LearnML) project is a three-year Strategic Partnership in the field of Education aiming to produce an innovative solution for the teaching and learning of crucial 21st century skills relating to digital literacy, computational thinking, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), so that Europe’s children and teenagers can develop into responsible citizens and insightful thinkers able to navigate the complex digital space and effectively contribute to its design.

The main coordinators of the project are Georgios N. Yannakakis and Antonios Liapis.

The 15th Conference on the Foundations of Digital GamesWebdesign, Logo Design, Communication Chair

The International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) is an interdisciplinary conference on technology used to develop digital games, and the study of digital games and their design, where academics can present their work to a diverse audience, share new ideas, and find collaborations with different backgrounds.

The main organisers and general chairs of FDG2020 are Antonios Liapis and Georgios N. Yannakakis.

IEEE Conference on GamesLogo Design

Logo design for the IEEE Conference on Games.

The 2019 IEEE CoG was held in London, United Kingdom.

Preference Learning ToolboxWebdesign, Logo Design, App Design

The Preference Learning Toolbox (PLT) is an open source software application and package which supports the key data modelling phases incorporating various popular data pre-processing, feature selection and preference learning methods.

The Python version of PLT was designed and developped primarily by Elizabeth Camillieri. PLT was developed at the Institute of Digital Games at the University of Malta with the support of Maltco Lotteries.

FDG 1st Workshop on Tabletop Games 2018 Webdesign

The goal of this workshop was to advance knowledge in tabletop games by bringing together researchers and fostering discussion about the current state of the field.

The workshop was ogranised by Antonios Liapis at FDG 2018, Malmo, Sweden.

International summer school on AI and Games Webdesign & paper media

The International Summer School on AI and Games was dedicated to the uses of AI techniques in and for games. After introductory lectures that explained the background and key techniques in AI and games, the school introduced participants the uses of AI for playing games, for generating content for games, and for modeling players.

The summer school is organised by Georgios Yannakakis and Julian Togelius.

AAMAS 2018 Tutorial: From Game Theory to AI in GamesWebdesign

Tutorial on how to use the principles of agent modeling and machine learning as overarching elements for connecting Game Theory to AI in digital games.

The tutorial was given by Georgios Chalkiadakis and Georgios Yannakakis.

The Newborn WorldWebdesign

The Newborn World is a storytelling game, played in a social setting and facilitated by a single mobile device. In this game, three or more players influence the evolving history of the First City, the first attempt of men and women to form a society.

The game was designed by Antonios Liapis.

IconoscopeWebdesign

Iconoscope is a game deployed on tablets and on the web which aims to foster the creativity of its players. The inspiration behind Iconoscope comes primarily from non-digital construction and guessing games. Iconoscope motivates players to creatively interpret concepts (described linguistically) as icons (depicted visually) which convey the same message.

Iconoscope was designed by IDG researchers under the C2Learn project, supported by the European Commission.