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Keeryn Johnson

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Large Language Models in Game Development: Implications for Gameplay, Playability, and Player Experience

This paper investigates how the integration of large language models influences gameplay, playability, and player experience in game development. We report a collaborative autoethnographic study of two game projects in which LLMs were embedded as architectural components. Reflective narratives and development artifacts were analyzed using gameplay, playability, and player experience as guiding constructs. The findings suggest that LLM integration increases variability and personalization while introducing challenges related to correctness, difficulty calibration, and structural coherence across these concepts. The study provides preliminary empirical insight into how generative AI integration reshapes established game constructs and introduces new architectural and quality considerations within game engineering practice.

cs.SE

Bita: A Conversational Assistant for Fairness Testing

Bias in AI systems can lead to unfair and discriminatory outcomes, especially when left untested before deployment. Although fairness testing aims to identify and mitigate such bias, existing tools are often difficult to use, requiring advanced expertise and offering limited support for real-world workflows. To address this, we introduce Bita, a conversational assistant designed to help software testers detect potential sources of bias, evaluate test plans through a fairness lens, and generate fairness-oriented exploratory testing charters. Bita integrates a large language model with retrieval-augmented generation, grounding its responses in curated fairness literature. Our validation demonstrates how Bita supports fairness testing tasks on real-world AI systems, providing structured, reproducible evidence of its utility. In summary, our work contributes a practical tool that operationalizes fairness testing in a way that is accessible, systematic, and directly applicable to industrial practice.

cs.SE