OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of IEEE Transactions on Games is 4. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A Mobile Game for Automatic Emotion-Labeling of Images	47
Win Prediction in Multiplayer Esports: Live Professional Match Prediction	33
Automated Video Game Testing Using Synthetic and Humanlike Agents	32
Toward Personalized Adaptive Gamification: A Machine Learning Model for Predicting Performance	28
Creating Pro-Level AI for a Real-Time Fighting Game Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	27
Winning Is Not Everything: Enhancing Game Development With Intelligent Agents	21
Adaptive Music Composition for Games	18
Infinite Loot Box: A Platform for Simulating Video Game Loot Boxes	16
Real-Time Prediction of Simulator Sickness in Virtual Reality Games	16
Does Winning or Losing Change Players’ Engagement in Competitive Games? Experiments in Virtual Reality	14
Game Strategies for Physical Robot Soccer Players: A Survey	14
Prediction of Player Churn and Disengagement Based on User Activity Data of a Freemium Online Strategy Game	14
Generating Role-Playing Game Quests With GPT Language Models	14
Impact of Visual and Sound Orchestration on Physiological Arousal and Tension in a Horror Game	13
Interpretable Real-Time Win Prediction for Honor of Kings—A Popular Mobile MOBA Esport	13
A Comparison of Mobile VR Display Running on an Ordinary Smartphone With Standard PC Display for P300-BCI Stimulus Presentation	13
Self-Adaptive Monte Carlo Tree Search in General Game Playing	12
Enhanced Rolling Horizon Evolution Algorithm With Opponent Model Learning: Results for the Fighting Game AI Competition	12
AI World Cup: Robot-Soccer-Based Competitions	12
What Causes Wrong Sentiment Classifications of Game Reviews?	12
“Are You Playing a Shooter Again?!” Deep Representation Learning for Audio-Based Video Game Genre Recognition	12
Are Exergames Exercise? A Scoping Review of the Short-Term Effects of Exertion Games	11
A Multifaceted Surrogate Model for Search-Based Procedural Content Generation	11
Video Game Development in a Rush: A Survey of the Global Game Jam Participants	11
Gaming Beyond the Novelty Effect of Immersive Virtual Reality for Physical Rehabilitation	11

Impact of Full-Body Avatars in Immersive Multiplayer Virtual Reality Training for Police Forces	10
Solving Sudoku With Ant Colony Optimization	10
Video Game Automated Testing Approaches: An Assessment Framework	10
Automated Gameplay Testing and Validation With Curiosity-Conditioned Proximal Trajectories	9
The Anesthesia Crisis Scenario Builder for Authoring Anesthesia Crisis-Based Simulations	9
Explainable AI for Cheating Detection and Churn Prediction in Online Games	9
Analysis, Design, and Prototypical Implementation of a Serious Game Reha@Stroke to Support Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients With the Help of a Mobile Phone	9
A Novel Evolutionary Algorithm With Column and Sub-Block Local Search for Sudoku Puzzles	9
Games for Change—A Comparative Systematic Review of Persuasive Strategies in Games for Behavior Change	9
Increasing Engagement With Engineering Escape Rooms	9
Method for Constructing Artificial Intelligence Player With Abstractions to Markov Decision Processes in Multiplayer Game ofMahjong	8
Staying Motivated During Difficult Times: A Snapshot of Serious Games for Paediatric Cancer Patients	8
Which Heroes to Pick? Learning to Draft in MOBA Games With Neural Networks and Tree Search	8
Dual Indicators to Analyze AI Benchmarks: Difficulty, Discrimination, Ability, and Generality	8
A Distributed Multiplayer Game to Promote Active Transport at Workplaces: User-Centered Design, Implementation, and Lessons Learned	8
A Game Design Plot: Exploring the Educational Potential of History-Based Video Games	8
Play With One’s Feelings: A Study on Emotion Awareness for Player Experience	7
Full-Body Motion Recognition in Immersive- Virtual-Reality-Based Exergame	7
Designing Game Feel: A Survey	7
Discriminative Neural Network for Hero Selection in Professional Heroes of the Storm and DOTA 2	7
WaveFunctionCollapse: Content Generation via Constraint Solving and Machine Learning	7
Keep Calm and Aim for the Head: Biofeedback-Controlled Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in a Horror Game	7
On the Robustness of Stealth Assessment	7
An Empirical Study of Trends of Popular Virtual Reality Games and Their Complaints	7
REAL: Reality-Enhanced Applied Games	7
RFM-LIR Feature Framework for Churn Prediction in the Mobile Games Market	7
GAMEREHAB@HOME: A New Engineering System Using Serious Game and Multisensor Fusion for Functional Rehabilitation at Home	7
Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing	6
“Bad Vibrations”: Sensing Toxicity From In-Game Audio Features	6
More Trees or Larger Trees: Parallelizing Monte Carlo Tree Search	6
Efficient Reinforcement Learning for StarCraft by Abstract Forward Models and Transfer Learning	6
SuSketch: Surrogate Models of Gameplay as a Design Assistant	6
Multiattribute Decision-Making in Wargames Leveraging the Entropy–Weight Method in Conjunction With Deep Reinforcement Learning	6
Requirements for Location-Based Games for Social Interaction	6
Crawling in Rogue's Dungeons With Deep Reinforcement Techniques	6
Fammeal: A Gamified Mobile Application for Parents and Children to Help Healthcare Centers Treat Childhood Obesity	6
Open-Ended Evolution for Minecraft Building Generation	6
A Game AI Competition to Foster Collaborative AI Research and Development	5
User-Centered Design of a Scenario-Based Serious Game: Game-Based Teaching of Future Healthcare	5
Predicting Events in MOBA Games: Prediction, Attribution, and Evaluation	5
TOAD-GAN: A Flexible Framework for Few-Shot Level Generation in Token-Based Games	5
Interactive Constrained MAP-Elites: Analysis and Evaluation of the Expressiveness of the Feature Dimensions	5
Operationalizing Intentionality to Play Hanabi With Human Players	5
On Mixed-Initiative Content Creation for Video Games	5
Gender, Gaming Motives, and Genre: Comparing Singaporean, German, and American Players	5
Development of an Indoor Exergame Based on Moving-Target Hitting Task for COVID-19 Epidemic: A Comparison Between AR and VR Mode	5
Mobile Networks for Computer Go	5
Exploring the Balance Between Computational Thinking and Learning Motivation in Elementary Programming Education: An Empirical Study With Game-Based Learning	5
Dungeons & Replicants II: Automated Game Balancing Across Multiple Difficulty Dimensions via Deep Player Behavior Modeling	5
The Influence of Social Ties on Performance in Team-Based Online Games	5

Exception-Tolerant Hierarchical Knowledge Bases for Forward Model Learning	5
An Augmented Reality Implementation of the Pong Game	5
Using Simple Design Features to Recapture the Essence of Real-Time Strategy Games	4
Evaluating Mixed-Initiative Procedural Level Design Tools Using a Triple-Blind Mixed-Method User Study	4
Beyond Genre: Classifying Virtual Reality Experiences	4
Procedural Generation of Multistory Buildings With Interior	4
Balancing Turn-Based Games With Chained Strategy Generation	4
Modeling Player Knowledge in a Parallel Programming Educational Game	4
Generation of Game Stages With Quality and Diversity by Reinforcement Learning in Turn-Based RPG	4
Machine Learning Methods for Predicting League of Legends Game Outcome	4
Trading Behind-the-Scene: Analysis of Online Gold Farming Network in the Auction House System	4
Does Improved Sound Rendering Increase Player Performance? A Graph-Based Spatial Audio Framework	4
Olivaw: Mastering Othello Without Human Knowledge, nor a Fortune	4
Model-Free Neural Counterfactual Regret Minimization With Bootstrap Learning	4
Learning the Game of Go by Scalable Network Without Prior Knowledge of Komi	4