3 papers
cs.SI2026
Games Mapper: Topological Data Analysis of Steam Genres
Nicolas Grelier, Stéphane Kaufmann, Johannes Pfau
The video game industry comprises a vast, continuously evolving landscape of themes and genres. For studios and publishers that navigate this competitive market, understanding the…
cs.AI2026
From LLM-Driven Trading Card Generation to Procedural Relatedness: A Pokémon Case Study
Johannes Pfau, Panagiotis Vrettis
Since the dawn of Trading Card Games, the genre has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry engaging millions of analog and digital players worldwide. Popular TCGs rely on regul…
cs.HC2025
From Fads to Classics -- Analyzing Video Game Trend Evolutions through Steam Tags
Nicolas Grelier, Johannes Pfau, Nicolas Mathieu +1
The video game industry deals with a fast-paced, competitive and almost unpredictable market. Trends of genres, settings and modalities change on a perpetual basis, studios are oft…