Happy to see all the new iGGi PhD students presenting their #gamedev projects! Lots of procedural content generation and physics. Well done everyone 😎💪

Thanks to our recent funding success, applications for IGGI funded studentships starting September 2019 are again open. Join the world’s largest doctoral training centre for research in games. Deadline for applications is 23:59 GMT on March 8 2019: iggi.org.uk/apply/

Code and slides for the workshop are available on github github.com/martinballa/Ca…

We've not talked much about this, but it's probably time! Presenting TAG (a tabletop games framework) at Experimental AI in Games Workshop 2023, ongoing project from QMUL Game AI group with Martin Balla Alexander Dockhorn, Raul Montoliu and Diego Perez-Liebana Check it out on github! github.com/GAIGResearch/T…

Done all your Christmas shopping? Thinking about maybe getting yourself a present too? How about a fully funded PhD to research games? It costs nothing except an amazing application and 4 years focusing on your research. Be part of our exciting community iggi.org.uk/apply

Games & the complex decision-making scenarios they offer have long helped advance AI research. In this webinar/live Q&A Feb 18 at 9 AM PT, researchers explore how Minecraft can be used to design multi-agent training tasks for reinforcement learning agents: aka.ms/AAb0twr

We at QMUL Game AI group have been working for the last months on our framework for General Strategy Games: Stratega [🧵]

Day 1 of #GameAIHAck done, Day 2 starting soon. Plan - Try to implement a new modification for MCTS in 48h Reality - Debug and fix old code, setup everything, laugh, and play board games with Dr. Raluca D. Gaina Martin Balla Diego Perez-Liebana #WorthIt

We are very excited to announce this: in collaboration with Creative Assembly, we are advertising for a PhD scholarship for iGGi PhD for September 2022 start. This is a fully-funded, 4-year position for home (UK) or EU-Settled status at QMUL Game AI group. 👇🧵 1/5

We highlight first TAG competition on the #boardgame #Pandemic IEEE Conference on Games 2022 - there is still 1 month to submit #GameAI agents to cure disease in this cooperative board game! Deadline: July 29th. tabletopgames.ai/competition/co…

We’re excited to announce GriddlyJS - A Web IDE for Reinforcement Learning! Design 🎨, build ⚒️, debug 🐛RL environments, record human trajectories 👲, and run policies 🤖 directly in your browser 🕸! Check it out here: griddly.ai Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2207.06105

I'm presenting our work on the #Pandemic #tabletopgame later today at IEEE Conference on Games with Martin Balla - talk recording will also premiere soon after on youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=oPhyZd… :) Always looking for #GameAI collaborations within Tabletop Games (TAG), do get in touch if interested!

We’re excited to announce that GriddlyJS will be presented at NeurIPS 2022. Design 🎨, build ⚒️, debug 🐛RL environments, record human trajectories 👲, and run policies 🤖 directly in your browser 🕸! Check it out here: griddly.ai Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2207.06105

The cool thing about setting an assignment for MSc students on writing AI players for board games is that you get to run game sessions to teach the game. A bit of Sushi Go! before lunch time sounds appropriate. QMUL Game AI group Tabletop Games (TAG)

Very excited to announce that our paper Posterior Sampling for Deep Reinforcement Learning (PSDRL) has been accepted at #ICML2023! ⌨️Code: github.com/remosasso/PSDRL 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2305.00477 🧵Thread 👇

With Develop:Brighton 2025 just under a month away. We thought we would share who's attending from iGGi this year! Looking forward to seeing folks there. More details to come

Next, Martin Balla talking about challenges and opportunities for reinforcement learning in tabletop games and a research framework called PyTAG