Dr Edward Powley

Associate Professor

Edward Powley is an associate professor in the Games Academy. His research interests as a member of the MetaMakers Institute are centred on artificial intelligence for games, particularly on developing general-purpose AI methods which can play a wide variety of games. His current work investigates the use of AI agents as playtesters and assistants in automated game design systems. He is also using his game development expertise to bring the Institute’s research to market and into the hands of the general public.

He is also an independent game developer, with particular interest in the emergent gameplay possibilities of cutting-edge AI, procedural content generation and physics-based gameplay. He teaches on BSc Computing for Games, focussing on principles of computing, artificial intelligence, and research methods.

Contact details

Email edward.powley@falmouth.ac.uk

    Qualifications

    Qualifications

    Year Qualification Awarding body
    2010 PhD Computer Science University of York
    2006 MMath Mathematics and Computer Science University of York

    Research Interests

    Research Topics

    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Games

    Research Outputs

    Publications and research outputs

    Article

    Gaudl, Swen, Nelson, Mark, Colton, Simon, Saunders, Rob, Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Perez Ferrer, Blanca, Ivey, Peter and Cook, Michael (2018) Rapid game jams with fluidic games: A user study & design methodology. Entertainment Computing, 27. pp. 1-9. ISSN 1875-9521
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    Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Nelson, Mark, Gaudl, Swen, Perez Ferrer, Blanca, Saunders, Rob, Ivey, Peter and Cook, Michael (2017) Wevva: Demonstrating Game Design. Thirteenth Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference, AIIDE 2017, 13th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. pp. 273-275. ISSN N/A
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    Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Gaudl, Swen, Colton, Simon, Saunders, Rob and Nelson, Mark J. (2017) Semi-automated level design via auto-playtesting for handheld casual game creation. Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2016. pp. 1-8. ISSN 2325-4289
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    Perez Ferrer, Blanca, Colton, Simon, Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144, Geelhoed, Erik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7152-1186 and Cook, Michael (2016) Gamika: Art Based Game Design. Art/Games, Beginnings (1). pp. 18-24.
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    Cowling, Peter I, Devlin, Sam, Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Whitehouse, Daniel and Rollason, Jeff (2015) Player preference and style in a leading mobile card game. IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, 7 (3). pp. 233-242. ISSN 1943-068X
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    Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Cowling, Peter I and Whitehouse, Daniel (2014) Information capture and reuse strategies in Monte Carlo Tree Search, with applications to games of hidden information. Artificial Intelligence, 217 (Dec). pp. 92-116. ISSN 0004-3702
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    Perez, Diego, Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Whitehouse, Daniel, Rohlfshagen, Philipp, Samothrakis, Spyridon, Cowling, Peter I and Lucas, Simon M (2014) Solving the Physical Travelling Salesman Problem: tree search and macro-actions. IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, 6 (1). pp. 31-45. ISSN 1943-068X
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    Book Section

    Scott, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6803-1490, Parker, Alcwyn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2374-1229, McDonald, Brian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0611-6499, Lewis, Gareth and Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304 (2019) Nurturing Collaboration in an Undergraduate Computing Course with Robot-themed Team Training and Team Building. In: CEP '19: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Computing Education Practice. ACM Press, New York, p. 5. ISBN 9781450366311
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    Colton, Simon, Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304 and Cook, Michael (2018) Investigating and automating the creative act of software engineering. In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Creativity. Association for Computational Creativity (ACC), Online, pp. 224-231. ISBN 978-989-54160-0-4
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    Conference or Workshop Item

    Lorway, Norah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8179-6255, Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304 and Wilson, Arthur (2021) Autopia: An AI collaborator for live networked computer music performance. In: 2nd Conference on AI Music Creativity (MuMe + CSMC), July 18-22 2021, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) of the University of Music and Performing Arts of Graz, Austria.
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    Lorway, Norah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8179-6255, Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Wilson, Arthur, Speakman, John A. and Jarvis, Matthew (2019) Autopia: An AI Collaborator for Live Coding Music Performances. In: International Conference on Live Coding, 5-7 February 2020, University of Limerick, Ireland.
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    Lorway, Norah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8179-6255, Jarvis, Matthew, Wilson, Arthur, Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304 and Speakman, John (2019) Autopia: An AI Collaborator for Gamified Live Coding Music Performances. In: Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour Convention, Falmouth University.
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    Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Cowling, Peter I. and Whitehouse, Daniel (2018) Memory Bounded Monte Carlo Tree Search. In: 13th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE'17), 5-9 October 2017, Snowbird, Utah, USA.
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    Scott, Michael James ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6803-1490, Parker, Alcwyn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2374-1229, Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Saunders, Rob, Lee, Jenny, Herring, Phoebe, Brown, Douglas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6662-6629 and Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2018) Towards an Interaction Blueprint for Mixed Reality Experiences in GLAM Spaces: The Augmented Telegrapher at Porthcurno Museum. In: Proceedings of the 32nd BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference, 2-6 July, 2018, Belfast, NI.
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    Colton, Simon, Nelson, Mark, Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Gaudl, Swen, Saunders, Rob, Perez Ferrer, Blanca, Ivey, Peter and Cook, Michael (2018) A Parameter-Space Design Methodology for Casual Creators. In: International Conference on Computational Creativity, 25-29 Jun 2018, Salamanca, Spain. Item availability may be restricted.
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    Kay, Madeleine and Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304 (2018) The effect of visualising NPC pathfinding on player exploration. In: Proceedings of Curiosity in Games workshop at the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG), 7-10 August 2018, Malmö, Sweden. (In Press)
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    Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304 (2018) Towards immersive 3D visualisations of game AI algorithms. In: Proceedings of Symposium on AI, Games & Virtual Reality, AISB Convention, Liverpool, UK.
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    Nelson, Mark, Colton, Simon, Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Gaudl, Swen, Ivey, Peter, Saunders, Rob, Perez Ferrer, Blanca and Cook, Michael (2017) Mixed-Initiative Approaches to On-Device Mobile Game Design. In: Proceedings of the CHI'17 Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Creative Interfaces, May 7 2017, Denver, USA.
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    Nelson, Mark, Gaudl, Swen, Colton, Simon, Saunders, Rob, Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Ivey, Peter, Perez Ferrer, Blanca and Cook, Michael (2017) Design Methods for Democratising Mobile Game Design. In: CHI Play Workshop: Critical Reflections on Participation in Game Development, 15 October 2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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    Nelson, Mark, Gaudl, Swen, Colton, Simon, Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Perez Ferrer, Blanca, Saunders, Rob, Ivey, Peter and Cook, Michael (2017) Fluidic Games in Cultural Contexts. In: International Conference on Computational Creativity, Georgia Tech, USA.
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    Gaudl, Swen, Nelson, Mark, Colton, Simon, Saunders, Rob, Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Ivey, Peter, Perez Ferrer, Blanca and Cook, Michael (2017) Exploring Novel Game Spaces with Fluidic Games. In: AISB 2017: AI & Games Symposium, 19-21/4/2017, Bath, UK. (In Press)
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    Scott, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6803-1490, Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304 and Parker, Alcwyn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2374-1229 (2017) Using GitHub to Support Programming Assignments. In: Proceedings of the 5th HEA Conference on Learning and Teaching in STEM Disciplines, 1-2 February 2017, Manchester, UK. (In Press)

    Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Gaudl, Swen, Colton, Simon, Nelson, Mark, Saunders, Rob and Cook, Michael (2016) Automated tweaking of levels for casual creation of mobile games. In: Computational Creativity and Games Workshop, 27 June 2016, Paris, France.
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    Colton, Simon, Nelson, Mark, Saunders, Rob, Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Gaudl, Swen and Cook, Michael (2016) Towards a computational reading of emergence in experimental game design. In: Computational Creativity and Games Workshop, 27 June 2016, Paris, France.
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    Device or Product

    Powley, Edward ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Tecza, Adrienne, Noble, Howard and Law, Richard (2016) Shallow Seas. [Device or Product]

    Teaching

    Areas of teaching

    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Computing

    Courses taught

    • BSc Computing for Games

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