Research brief / Creative systems

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Combined references and workflows for translating game theory into design and production choices.

The research question

Where does automation help creative work, and where should the person retain direct control?

Inside the work

Use bounded experiments with a concrete artifact to inspect. Credit imported foundations and separate a concept, a runnable prototype, and a published tool.

A local studio experiment for creating and working with pixel-art assets. The Pixel Forge project offers a concrete way into this field of research.

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What this brief establishes

This is an overview of the program and its place in the research library. It is not a full paper, a dataset, or evidence of a measured outcome. Where a related project has a tested result or an open limitation, its project page names that boundary.

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