Oops, Not Now: PEARL, a RAG-Based Support Agent for Gameplay and What Players Want from AI Help

arXiv:2609.13718 · cs.HC, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-12 · Read on arXiv

cs.HC, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-12

Updated: 2026-09-12

Comments: Author accepted manuscript. Accepted to the 2026 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG). 8 pages, 3 figures, 1 table

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

RAG — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Frustration — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Parallel Education Agent for Reflection and Learning — 1× in this paper
Retrieval-Augmented Generation — 1× in this paper
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 1× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes
Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes