Games, and especially video games, are now a financially and culturally important commercial factor within the software and entertainment industries. They provide an excellent test bed for and application of a wide range of computational intelligence methods including evolutionary computation, neural networks, fuzzy systems, swarm intelligence, and temporal difference learning. There has been a rapid growth in research in this area over the last few years.

This event focuses on new computational intelligence or biologically inspired techniques that may be of practical value for improvement of existing games or creation of new games, as well as on innovative uses of games to improve or test computational intelligence algorithms. We invite prospective participants to submit full papers following Springer's LNCS guidelines.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Avatars and new forms of communication between game intelligence and players
• Player satisfaction measurement and optimization
• (Semi-)automated game content creation
• Evolutionary game theory
• Human-like artificial adversaries and emotion modeling
• Authentic movement, believable multi-agent control
• Computational Intelligence in video games
• Learning in games
• Experimental methods for gameplay evaluation
• Evolutionary testing and debugging of games
• Games related to social, economic, and financial simulations
• Educational/serious games
• General game intelligence (e.g. general purpose drop-n-play Non-Player Characters, NPCs).