Hello!


I'm Mike Cook, an AI researcher and game designer. I currently hold a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship at Queen Mary University of London, where I do research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, creativity and game design. I'm the creator of ANGELINA, the AI game designer, the founder of PROCJAM, the Procedural Generation Jam, and an author of the MIT Press book Twitterbots. I also regularly design games and other weird digital experiences, which you can find here.

If you need to reach me, you can email me - mike at possibilityspace.org - or contact me on Twitter - @mtrc.

Recent News

🔸 We've officially announced Knives & Paintbrushes, an informal research collective comprised of me and a few close research collaborators.

🔸 I'm delighted to announce that Florence Smith Nicholls has joined the Queen Mary Game AI group as a PhD student under my supervision.

🔸 Two of our papers, coauthored with Mads Johansen and Younès Rabii, have been accepted to AIIDE 2021.

Blogs & Tutorials

The Hard Way
January 28th 2022 | Games

Software Engineering for AI
April 22nd 2020 | Artificial Intelligence Research Games

Supermash
March 18th 2020 | Procedural GenerationGames

Dagstuhl Notes: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3
Dec 17th 2019 | Artificial Intelligence Research

Tutorial: Sampling
July 25th 2019 | Procedural Generation Tutorial

Steam Labs
July 25th 2019 | Artificial Intelligence Games Industry

Shonan Notes: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3
March 19th 2019 | Artificial Intelligence Research

Moon Hunters & Procedural Storytelling
March 7th 2019 | Procedural Generation Repost

Tutorial: Generative & Possibility Space
January 31st 2019 | Procedural Generation Tutorial

Better Living Through Generativity
January 30th 2019 | Procedural Generation Repost

Read Older Posts On Games By ANGELINA
From 2011 Onwards | Artificial Intelligence Research