The Advances in Computer Games conference (ACG 2025) will be held online from October 21-23, 2025. ACG is an internationally renowned conference that publishes computer-based studies of games. Its history goes back to the inaugural event held in Edinburgh in 1975, making this the longest ongoing game AI conference.

Conference attendance to view all talks will be free.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• The current state of game-playing programs for classic and modern board games, card games, puzzles, virtual/casual/video games, etc.
• General game playing
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning for games
• The history of computers in game-based research
• New theoretical developments in game-related research
• New and enhanced algorithms for search and knowledge acquisition
• Automated game design and evaluation
• Social aspects of computer games
• Scientific contributions produced by the study of games
• Cognitive research of how (and why) humans play games and puzzles
• Capture and analysis of game data
• Mathematical insights into games

Keynote Speakers

• TBA

Submission

Papers must be written in English and can be up to 10 pages in length (including references).

Please conform to the LNCS style (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).
LaTeX preferred (Overleaf template available at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj#.WuA4JS5uZpi).

Submit a PDF version of your paper via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acg2025).
The proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume in their LNCS series.

Dates

• Submission due: August 1, 2025
• Notification due: September 15, 2025
• Final version due: October 7, 2025
• Conference: October 21-23, 2025

The deadline is at 23:59, anywhere on Earth (UTC-12).

Program Co-Chairs

• Michael Hartisch, University of Passau, Germany
• Chu-Hsuan Hsueh, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Program Committee

• Yngvi Bjornsson
• Bruno Bouzy
• Cameron Browne
• Paolo Burelli
• Tristan Cazenave
• Jr-Chang Chen
• Hsin-Hung Chou
• Jeffrey Considine
• Daniel Görlich
• Reijer Grimbergen
• Matej Guid
• Tsuyoshi Hashimoto
• Ryan Hayward
• Tsan-Sheng Hsu
• Kuo-Chan Huang
• Hiroyuki Iida
• Nicolas Jouandeau
• Tomoyuki Kaneko
• Zeynep Burcu Kaya Alpan
• Akihiro Kishimoto
• Martin Mueller
• Todd Neller
• Şenol Pişkin
• Jonathan Schaeffer
• Irfansha Shaik
• Dennis J. N. J. Soemers
• Shogo Takeuchi
• Ruck Thawonmas
• Michael Thielscher
• Jonathan K. Vis
• Jean-Noël Vittaut
• Mark H. M. Winands
• I-Chen Wu
• Ti-Rong Wu
• Varduhi Yeghiazaryan
• Kazuki Yoshizoe

Advisory Committee

• Jaap van den Herik, University of Leiden, The Netherlands

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to acg2025(@)easychair.org.
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