GameDirector: Decoupling Gameplay Logic from Rendering for Player-Configurable Game World Models

arXiv:2609.25652 · cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-22 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-22

Updated: 2026-09-22

Project page: https://jimntu.github.io/gamedirector

Terminology

• World Model — 46× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Accuracy — 13× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Framework — 13× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Fidelity — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 10× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Distillation — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Modeling — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generative Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Angular Error — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• F1 Score — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• H3-World: Turning Language Understanding into World Control
• Code World Model: Coding Agent as World Brain
• UniMax: Fairer and more Effective Language Sampling for Large-Scale Multilingual Pretraining
• Infinite Worlds with Versatile Interactions
• Matrix-game 2.0: An open-source, real-time, and streaming interactive world model
• WildWorld: A Large-Scale Dataset for Dynamic World Modeling with Actions and Explicit State toward Generative ARPG
• From Pixels to States: Rethinking Interactive World Models as Game Engines
• StatePlay: State-Aware Game World Models for Mechanics-Consistent Generation
• AI for Games in the Foundation Model Era
• Lyra 2.0: Explorable Generative 3D Worlds
• DreamX-World 1.0: A General-Purpose Interactive World Model
• Gemma 4 Technical Report
• InSpatio-WorldFM: An Open-Source Real-Time Generative Frame Model
• Advancing Open-source World Models
• SCOPE: Simulating Cross-game Operations in Playable Environments for FPS World Models
• Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models
• ReactiveGWM: Flexible Control and NPC Reactivity in Game World Models

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