Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage (GameTable)
(2025) , 14 pages
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- Abstract
- The multifaceted study of games spans diverse disciplines which have often operated in isolation. In this era of rapid developments in computer science, games stand as testbeds for pioneering methodologies, shaping and influencing techniques in economics, engineering, and AI. At the same time, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists explore the motivations underlying human play, dissecting its social implications on both individual and societal levels. Furthermore, games have played a central role in pedagogical development and are progressively acknowledged as integral components of humanity’s cultural heritage. The GameTable COST Action is an ongoing scientific network which started in October 2023, funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology research scheme, aiming to gather scholars, researchers and stakeholders from a variety of fields and career stages across academia, industry and heritage institutions. GameTable aims to forge long-lasting international collaborations by establishing an interdisciplinary network to develop new methodologies and applications for using game AI to study, reconstruct, and preserve the intangible cultural heritage of games. The network proposes to approach AI techniques, archaeology, and gaming research into a cohesive framework. In doing so, the group aspires to demonstrate how games are both form of entertainment and repositories of cultural richness and historical narratives. Key challenges include innovative approaches for studying and preserving heritage games, reconstructing missing rules in incomplete games, simulating human-like play, applying AI to study historical games, developing novel methods to identify unrecognized games measuring their evolution across space and time, developing pedagogical tools, and leveraging AI in a culturally diverse way.
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University of Reading University of Reading
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Truzzi, I. (2025). Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage (GameTable). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/244030