NUS Survey Maps Six Roles for Foundation Models Across the Game Lifecycle
NationalUniversityofSingapore · hf · 2026-09-16
A comprehensive survey from the National University of Singapore organizes how foundation models and learned game-world models are reshaping AI across the game lifecycle.
- Six roles framework: playing and acting; modeling players and games; designing games; building and maintaining games; generating and adapting at runtime; and testing and evaluating games.
- Cross-role connections: trajectories can train world models, learned environments provide agent experience, design specs drive executable implementations, and play/testing feedback guides revision.
- Core challenge: control schemes, rules, engine interfaces, state representations, and player contexts often remain setting-specific, so downstream claims require revalidation in the target setting.
- Evaluation gaps: evaluation is standardized mainly for bounded game playing and select learned environments; persistent state, repeated software revision, validated player modeling, and sustained runtime adaptation remain under-established.
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