News on AI&Game Lab @ ZGCA

Our Team's Honor of Kings Esports Manager Enters Closed Beta

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Our team’s in-house project, Honor of Kings Esports Manager, is now in closed beta. Learn more.

ZGCA–Tencent Joint Training Project on Disruptive AI Technologies for Real-World Game Scenarios Officially Launched

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Our team’s ZGCA–Tencent joint training project, Research and Development of Disruptive AI Technologies for Real-World Game Scenarios, has officially launched.

Game Agents Based on Multimodal Large Language Models Selected for the 2026 Tencent Rhino-Bird Focused Research Program

Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

🎉🎉 Congratulations to our team! Our project, Game Agents Based on Multimodal Large Language Models, has been selected for the 2026 Tencent Rhino-Bird Focused Research Program!

One Paper from the AI&Game Team Accepted to ICML

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

🎉🎉 Congratulations to our team! One of our papers has been accepted to ICML!

Two Papers from the AI&Game Team Accepted to ACL

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

🎉🎉 Congratulations to our team! Two of our papers have been accepted to ACL!

Game On This New Year's Day: The Zhiyoujing Game Gallery Is Live!

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Game on this New Year’s Day: the Zhiyoujing Game Gallery is live!

The gallery showcases web games created with AI tools, with more to come. We thank Liruochen, Chuxi, Bingwu, and Yingzao for their contributions to the site. Play now.

🎉 Two Papers from the AI&Game Team Accepted to AAMAS!

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

🎉🎉 Congratulations to our team! Two of our papers—LLM-SMAC: Solving Multi-Agent Decision-Making Tasks via LLM Decision Tree Code Generation and Sim2Sea: Sim-to-Real Policy Transfer for Maritime Vessel Navigation in Congested Waters—have been accepted to AAMAS!

Interactive Digital Intelligence Innovation Platform Project Officially Launched

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

After extensive preparation, our project, Development and Application of an Interactive Digital Intelligence Innovation Platform (AI&Game), has officially launched at ZGCA. We welcome you to join our team!

As a member of our team, you can:

Explore the limits of AI capabilities through game environments
Advance and improve game AI
Build AI-powered tools for game development
Explore the frontiers of AI-native games
~~Play games together~~

Interested in joining us? Contact Professor Zhao at jianzhao@zgci.ac.cn.

🎉 One Paper from the AI&Game Team Accepted to AAAI!

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

🎉🎉 Congratulations to our team member Sirui Liang! Her paper, Bias-Restrained Prefix Representation Finetuning for Mathematical Reasoning, has been accepted to AAAI!

The First Stop for AI-Powered Games: A Better-Looking Duck with an Escape from Duckov Appearance Mod

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

On October 16, 2025, Escape from Duckov, a single-player extraction shooter developed by Team Soda under Bilibili, launched on PC. Dubbed “Escape from Tarkov with ducks” by players, it quickly became a breakout hit. In its first week, the game sold more than one million copies worldwide, reached 250,000 concurrent players on Steam, and earned a 94% positive rating.

Set on the fantastical planet of Duckov, the game casts players as a brave duck who must shoot, scavenge, and build to survive a dangerous world and ultimately escape. It combines looting, combat, and construction mechanics, with more than 50 weapons, weapon customization, a skill-tree system, and over 50 hours of main-story content.

Zhiyoujing, the AI & Game Research Team's Community WeChat Account, Is Now Live!

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Zhiyoujing, the AI & Game Research Team’s community WeChat account, is now live!

Hello! We are an AI and game research team at Zhongguancun Academy in Beijing. We are delighted to connect with you through our new WeChat account, Zhiyoujing. Here, we will share cutting-edge developments, in-depth reviews, and our research findings in AI and games. Visit our WeChat account.

Our Research Interests

AI-powered game development workflows
Intelligent NPC behavior design
AIGC technologies for game content generation
Player behavior analysis and modeling
Automated game testing
AI applications in virtual and augmented reality

We will regularly publish the following through this account: