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ORCIDMichael Cook 0001
Person information
- affiliation: King's college London, UK
- affiliation: Queen Mary University of London, UK
- affiliation: University of Falmouth, MetaMakers Institute, Penryn, UK
- affiliation: Imperial College London, Department of Computing, UK
- affiliation: Goldsmiths University of London, Department of Computing, UK
Other persons with the same name
- Michael Cook 0002 — University of Liverpool, Centre for Archive Studies, UK
- Michael Cook 0003
![[0000-0002-5040-8181]](https://dblp.uni-trier.de/img/orcid-mark.12x12.png "0000-0002-5040-8181")
— Cornell University, Library, Ithaca, NY, USA - Michael Cook 0004 — Onsemi, Corporate Research and Development, East Greenwich, RI, USA (and 1 more)
- Michael Cook 0005 — University of Cincinnati, OH, USA
2020 – today
- 2025
[c55]Florence Smith Nicholls, Michael Cook:
Archaeological Gameworld Affordances: A Grounded Theory of How Players Interpret Environmental Storytelling. CHI 2025: 465:1-465:20- 2024
- [c54]Michael Cook:
The Art of Programming: Challenges in Generating Code for Creative Applications. AIware 2024 - [c53]Oliver Withington, Michael Cook, Laurissa Tokarchuk:
On the Evaluation of Procedural Level Generation Systems. FDG 2024: 22 - [c52]Florence Smith Nicholls, Michael Cook:
How To Save A World: The Go-Along Interview as Game Preservation Methodology in Wurm Online. FDG 2024: 27 - [c51]Bobby Khaleque, Michael Cook, Jeremy Gow:
Experiments in Motivating Exploratory Agents. FDG 2024: 73 - [c50]Younès Rabii, Michael Cook:
"Hunt Takes Hare": Theming Games Through Game-Word Vector Translation. FDG 2024: 74 - [i20]Oliver Withington, Michael Cook, Laurissa Tokarchuk:
On the Evaluation of Procedural Level Generation Systems. CoRR abs/2404.18657 (2024) - [i19]Younès Rabii, Michael Cook:
"Hunt Takes Hare": Theming Games Through Game-Word Vector Translation. CoRR abs/2405.09893 (2024) - [i18]Florence Smith Nicholls, Michael Cook:
How To Save A World: The Go-Along Interview as Game Preservation Methodology in Wurm Online. CoRR abs/2405.10208 (2024) - 2023
- [c49]Younès Rabii, Michael Cook:
Why Oatmeal is Cheap: Kolmogorov Complexity and Procedural Generation. FDG 2023: 25:1-25:7 - [c48]Florence Smith Nicholls, Michael Cook:
"That Darned Sandstorm": A Study of Procedural Generation through Archaeological Storytelling. FDG 2023: 66:1-66:8 - [c47]Amy Smith, Michael Cook:
AI-Generated Imagery: A New Era for the 'Readymade'. SIGGRAPH Asia Art Papers 2023: 5:1-5:4 - [i17]Amy Smith, Hope Schroeder, Ziv Epstein, Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Andrew Lippman:
Trash to Treasure: Using text-to-image models to inform the design of physical artefacts. CoRR abs/2302.00561 (2023) - [i16]Florence Smith Nicholls, Michael Cook:
'That Darned Sandstorm': A Study of Procedural Generation through Archaeological Storytelling. CoRR abs/2304.08293 (2023) - [i15]Younès Rabii, Michael Cook:
Why Oatmeal is Cheap: Kolmogorov Complexity and Procedural Generation. CoRR abs/2305.02131 (2023) - [i14]Amy Smith, Michael Cook:
AI-Generated Imagery: A New Era for the 'Readymade'. CoRR abs/2307.06033 (2023) - 2022
- [j11]Michael Cook, Jeremy Gow, Gillian Smith, Simon Colton:
Danesh: Interactive Tools for Understanding Procedural Content Generators. IEEE Trans. Games 14(3): 329-338 (2022) - [j10]Michael Cook, Azalea Raad:
Hyperstate Space Graphs. IEEE Trans. Games 14(3): 435-445 (2022) - [c46]Michael Cook:
Puck: A Slow and Personal Automated Game Designer. AIIDE 2022: 232-239 - [c45]Michael Cook:
Optimists at Heart: Why Do We Research Game AI? CoG 2022: 560-567 - [c44]Florence Smith Nicholls, Michael Cook:
The Dark Souls of Archaeology: Recording Elden Ring. FDG 2022: 17:1-17:10 - [c43]Christoph Salge, Claus Aranha, Adrian Brightmoore, Sean Butler, Rodrigo De Moura Canaan, Michael Cook, Michael Cerny Green, Hagen Fischer, Christian Guckelsberger, Jupiter Hadley, Jean-Baptiste Hervé, Mark Richard Johnson, Quinn Kybartas, David Mason, Mike Preuss, Tristan Smith, Ruck Thawonmas, Julian Togelius:
Impressions of the GDMC AI Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft. FDG 2022: 45:1-45:16 - [i13]Florence Smith Nicholls, Michael Cook:
The Dark Souls of Archaeology: Recording Elden Ring. CoRR abs/2204.10949 (2022) - [i12]Michael Cook:
Optimists at Heart: Why Do We Research Game AI? (Extended Version). CoRR abs/2206.03261 (2022) - 2021
- [c42]Mads Johansen, Michael Cook:
Challenges in Generating Juice Effects for Automatically Designed Games. AIIDE 2021: 42-49 - [c41]Younès Rabii, Michael Cook:
Revealing Game Dynamics via Word Embeddings of Gameplay Data. AIIDE 2021: 187-194 - [c40]Michael Cook:
The Social Responsibility of Game AI. CoG 2021: 1-8 - [c39]Michael Cook:
Monte Carlo Tree Search With Reversibility Compression. CoG 2021: 1-8 - [i11]Michael Cook:
The Road Less Travelled: Trying And Failing To Generate Walking Simulators. CoRR abs/2104.10789 (2021) - [i10]Michael Cook:
The Social Responsibility of Game AI. CoRR abs/2105.15122 (2021) - [i9]Christoph Salge, Claus Aranha, Adrian Brightmoore, Sean Butler, Rodrigo Canaan, Michael Cook, Michael Cerny Green, Hagen Fischer, Christian Guckelsberger, Jupiter Hadley, Jean-Baptiste Hervé, Mark Richard Johnson, Quinn Kybartas, David Mason, Mike Preuss, Tristan Smith, Ruck Thawonmas, Julian Togelius:
Impressions of the GDMC AI Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft. CoRR abs/2108.02955 (2021) - 2020
- [c38]Michael Cook:
Procedural Generation and Information Games. CoG 2020: 253-260 - [c37]Michael Cook:
Software Engineering For Automated Game Design. CoG 2020: 487-494 - [c36]Simon Colton, Jon McCormack, Sebastian Berns, Elena Petrovskaya, Michael Cook:
Adapting and Enhancing Evolutionary Art for Casual Creation. EvoMUSART 2020: 17-34 - [c35]Matthew Guzdial, Devi Acharya, Max Kreminski, Michael Cook, Mirjam Eladhari, Antonios Liapis, Anne Sullivan:
Tabletop Roleplaying Games as Procedural Content Generators. FDG 2020: 103:1-103:9 - [c34]Simon Colton, Jon McCormack, Michael Cook, Sebastian Berns:
Creativity Theatre for Demonstrable Computational Creativity. ICCC 2020: 288-291 - [i8]Michael Cook:
Generative Forensics: Procedural Generation and Information Games. CoRR abs/2004.01768 (2020) - [i7]Michael Cook:
Software Engineering For Automated Game Design. CoRR abs/2004.01770 (2020) - [i6]Matthew Guzdial, Devi Acharya, Max Kreminski, Michael Cook, Mirjam Eladhari, Antonios Liapis, Anne Sullivan:
Tabletop Roleplaying Games as Procedural Content Generators. CoRR abs/2007.06108 (2020)
2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [j9]Antonios Liapis, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Michael Cook, Simon Colton:
Guest Editorial Special Issue on AI-Based and AI-Assisted Game Design. IEEE Trans. Games 11(1): 1-4 (2019) - [c33]Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Jeremy Gow, Gillian Smith:
General Analytical Techniques For Parameter-Based Procedural Content Generators. CoG 2019: 1-8 - [c32]Michael Cook, Azalea Raad:
Hyperstate Space Graphs for Automated Game Analysis. CoG 2019: 1-8 - [c31]Simon Colton, Alison Pease, Michael Cook, Chunyang Chen:
The HR3 System for Automatic Code Generation in Creative Settings. ICCC 2019: 108-115 - [c30]Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Alison Pease, Maria Teresa Llano:
Framing In Computational Creativity - A Survey And Taxonomy. ICCC 2019: 156-163 - [e3]Kazjon Grace, Michael Cook, Dan Ventura, Mary Lou Maher:
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, June 17-21, 2019. Association for Computational Creativity (ACC) 2019, ISBN 978-989-54160-1-1 [contents] - 2018
- [j8]Swen E. Gaudl, Mark J. Nelson, Simon Colton, Rob Saunders, Edward Jack Powley, Blanca Pérez Ferrer, Peter Ivey, Michael Cook:
Rapid game jams with fluidic games: A user study & design methodology. Entertain. Comput. 27: 1-9 (2018) - [c29]Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Azalea Raad:
Inferring Design Constraints From Game Ruleset Analysis. CIG 2018: 1-8 - [c28]Anne Sullivan, Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari, Michael Cook:
Tarot-based narrative generation. FDG 2018: 54:1-54:7 - [c27]Michael Cook, Simon Colton:
Redesigning Computationally Creative Systems For Continuous Creation. ICCC 2018: 32-39 - [c26]Edward J. Powley, Simon Colton, Michael Cook:
Investigating and Automating the Creative Act of Software Engineering: A Position Paper. ICCC 2018: 224-231 - [c25]Michael Cook, Simon Colton:
Neighbouring Communities: Interaction, Lessons and Opportunities. ICCC 2018: 256-263 - [c24]Peter Ivey, Blanca Pérez Ferrer, Rob Saunders, Swen E. Gaudl, Edward J. Powley, Mark J. Nelson, Simon Colton, Michael Cook:
A Parameter-Space Design Methodology for Casual Creators. ICCC 2018: 264-271 - [i5]Swen E. Gaudl, Mark J. Nelson, Simon Colton, Rob Saunders, Edward Jack Powley, Peter Ivey, Blanca Pérez Ferrer, Michael Cook:
Exploring Novel Game Spaces with Fluidic Games. CoRR abs/1803.01403 (2018) - 2017
- [j7]Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Jeremy Gow:
The ANGELINA Videogame Design System - Part I. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games 9(2): 192-203 (2017) - [j6]Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Jeremy Gow:
The ANGELINA Videogame Design System - Part II. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games 9(3): 254-266 (2017) - [c23]Michael Cook:
A Vision for Continuous Automated Game Design. AIIDE Workshops 2017 - [c22]Edward Jack Powley, Mark J. Nelson, Swen E. Gaudl, Simon Colton, Blanca Pérez Ferrer, Rob Saunders, Peter Ivey, Michael Cook:
Wevva: Democratising Game Design. AIIDE 2017: 273-276 - [c21]Mark J. Nelson, Simon Colton, Edward Jack Powley, Swen E. Gaudl, Peter Ivey, Rob Saunders, Blanca Pérez Ferrer, Michael Cook:
Mixed-Initiative Approaches to On-Device Mobile Game Design. MICI@CHI 2017 - [c20]Mark J. Nelson, Swen E. Gaudl, Simon Colton, Edward Jack Powley, Blanca Pérez Ferrer, Rob Saunders, Peter Ivey, Michael Cook:
Fluidic Games in Cultural Contexts. ICCC 2017: 175-182 - [i4]Michael Cook, Adam Summerville, Simon Colton:
Off The Beaten Lane: AI Challenges In MOBAs Beyond Player Control. CoRR abs/1706.03122 (2017) - [i3]Michael Cook:
A Vision For Continuous Automated Game Design. CoRR abs/1707.09661 (2017) - [i2]Pieter Spronck, Elisabeth André, Michael Cook, Mike Preuß:
Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games: AI-Driven Game Design (Dagstuhl Seminar 17471). Dagstuhl Reports 7(11): 86-129 (2017) - 2016
- [j5]Camille Barot, Michael Buro, Michael Cook, Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari, Boyang Li, Antonios Liapis, Magnus Johansson, Josh McCoy, Santiago Ontañón, Jonathan P. Rowe, Emmett Tomai, Harko Verhagen, Alexander Zook:
The AIIDE 2015 Workshop Program. AI Mag. 37(2): 91-94 (2016) - [j4]Amanda Phillips, Gillian Smith, Michael Cook, Tanya Short:
Feminism and procedural content generation: toward a collaborative politics of computational creativity. Digit. Creativity 27(1): 82-97 (2016) - [c19]Alexander E. Zook, Michael Cook, Eric Butler, Kristin Siu, Matthew Guzdial, Mark O. Riedl, James Owen Ryan, Ben Samuel, Adam Summerville, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin:
Playable Experiences at AIIDE 2016. AIIDE 2016: 251- - [c18]Michael Cook, Jeremy Gow, Simon Colton:
Towards the automatic optimisation of procedural content generators. CIG 2016: 1-8 - [i1]Michael Cook, Mirjam Eladhari, Andy Nealen, Mike Treanor, Eddy Boxerman, Alex Jaffe, Paul Sottosanti, Steve Swink:
PCG-Based Game Design Patterns. CoRR abs/1610.03138 (2016) - 2015
- [b1]Michael Cook:
Co-operative coevolution for computational creativity: a case study in videogame design. Imperial College London, UK, 2015 - [j3]Tiffany Barnes, Oliver Bown, Michael Buro, Michael Cook, Arne Eigenfeldt, Héctor Muñoz-Avila, Santiago Ontañón, Philippe Pasquier, Noriko Tomuro, Robert Michael Young, Alexander Zook:
Reports of the Workshops Held at the Tenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. AI Mag. 36(1): 99-102 (2015) - [c17]Michael Cook, Squirrel Eiserloh, Justus Robertson, Robert Michael Young, Tommy Thompson, David Churchill, Martin Cerný, Sergio Poo Hernandez, Vadim Bulitko:
Playable Experiences at AIIDE 2015. AIIDE 2015: 227- - [c16]Michael Cook, Mirjam Eladhari, Adam M. Smith, Gillian Smith, Tommy Thompson, Julian Togelius, Alexander Zook:
AI-based Games: Contrabot and What Did You Do? FDG 2015 - [c15]Michael Cook, Gillian Smith:
Formalizing Non-Formalism: Breaking the Rules of Automated Game Design. FDG 2015 - [c14]Mike Treanor, Alexander Zook, Mirjam P. Eladhari, Julian Togelius, Gillian Smith, Michael Cook, Tommy Thompson, Brian Magerko, John Levine, Adam M. Smith:
AI-based Game Design Patterns. FDG 2015 - [c13]Michael Cook, Simon Colton:
Generating Code For Expressing Simple Preferences: Moving On From Hardcoding And Randomness. ICCC 2015: 8-16 - [c12]Simon Colton, Jakob Halskov, Dan Ventura, Ian Gouldstone, Michael Cook, Blanca Pérez Ferrer:
The Painting Fool Sees! New Projects with the Automated Painter. ICCC 2015: 189-196 - [c11]Michael Cook:
Make Something That Makes Something: A Report On The First Procedural Generation Jam. ICCC 2015: 197-203 - [e2]Hannu Toivonen, Simon Colton, Michael Cook, Dan Ventura:
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2015, Park City, Utah, USA, June 29 - July 2, 2015. computationalcreativity.net 2015, ISBN 978-0-8425-2970-9 [contents] - 2014
- [j2]Antonios Liapis, Michael Cook, Adam M. Smith, Gillian Smith, Alexander Zook, Mei Si, Marc Cavazza, Philippe Pasquier:
Workshops Held at the Ninth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE): A Report. AI Mag. 35(2): 65-68 (2014) - [c10]Nathan R. Sturtevant, Jeff Orkin, Robert Zubek, Michael Cook, Stephen G. Ware, Christian Stith, Robert Michael Young, Phillip Wright, Squirrel (Brian) Eiserloh, Alejandro Ramirez-Sanabria, Vadim Bulitko, Kieran Lord:
Playable Experiences at AIIDE 2014. AIIDE 2014 - [c9]Michael Cook, Simon Colton:
Ludus Ex Machina: Building A 3D Game Designer That Competes Alongside Humans. ICCC 2014: 54-62 - [c8]Simon Colton, Alison Pease, Joseph Corneli, Michael Cook:
Assessing Progress in Building Autonomously Creative Systems. ICCC 2014: 137-145 - [e1]Simon Colton, Dan Ventura, Nada Lavrac, Michael Cook:
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2014, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 10-13, 2014. computationalcreativity.net 2014, ISBN 978-961-264-055-2 [contents] - 2013
- [j1]Michael Cook:
Creativity in code: generating rules for video games. XRDS 19(4): 40-43 (2013) - [c7]Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Azalea Raad, Jeremy Gow:
Mechanic Miner: Reflection-Driven Game Mechanic Discovery and Level Design. EvoApplications 2013: 284-293 - [c6]Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Jeremy Gow:
Nobody's A Critic: On The Evaluation Of Creative Code Generators - A Case Study In Video Game Design. ICCC 2013: 123-130 - 2012
- [c5]Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Alison Pease:
Aesthetic Considerations for Automated Platformer Design. AIIDE 2012 - [c4]Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Jeremy Gow:
Initial Results from Co-operative Co-evolution for Automated Platformer Design. EvoApplications 2012: 194-203 - 2011
- [c3]Michael Cook, Simon Colton:
Multi-faceted evolution of simple arcade games. CIG 2011: 289-296 - [c2]Simon Colton, Michael Cook, Azalea Raad:
Ludic Considerations of Tablet-Based Evo-Art. EvoApplications (2) 2011: 223-233 - [c1]Michael Cook, Simon Colton:
Automated Collage Generation - With More Intent. ICCC 2011: 1-3
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