The State of the AIIDE Conference in 2017

The Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment conference has been running for twelve years. During this time there have been significant shifts in the conference and the focus of the work published. Looking back at 2005 we see two interesting trends from the conference. First, it was common for research papers to observe deficiencies in current video game AI and to propose solutions for solving these problems. In this way, many of the problems motivating work at the conference came directly from the games industry.