Projects
- Prom Week, a social puzzle game featuring an AI system for social physics
- I am helping to develop the methodology of AI-Based Game Design.
Publications
My publications can be found here.
About Me
Josh McCoy is a Ph.D. student in the Center for Games and Playable Media‘s Expressive Intelligence Studio at U.C. Santa Cruz. Through focusing on richly and tractably enabling social interactions between characters driven by artificial intelligence (AI), his research goals are to make interactive experiences featuring social interaction more prevalent and easier to create. Game design surrounding social play is a key component of this research. Prom Week, a social puzzle game featuring an AI system for social physics, is a game featuring the implementation of this research. Josh co-leads game design and is the technical design lead for Prom Week.
Here is my CV.