AI-Enabled Worldbuilding as Iterative Mental Model
Jun 24, 2026 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Armory room 182 and online via Zoom

- Sponsor
- The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning
- Speaker
- Michael Curtin
- Contact
- Jim Wentworth
- jwentwor@illinois.edu
- Phone
- 217-244-2492
- Originating Calendar
- AI Hub at CITL
- Michael Curtin
Adjunct Faculty - Informatics / Game Studies and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana / Champaign
For three years I’ve taught a class with a unique dependency; each semester I need a detailed plan for a video game - a narrative, locations, characters - and a gameplay loop that ties it all together. AI helps to meet this need, but rather than using it to generate content, I leverage it as a framework for quickly externalizing, organizing and iterating ideas - all before any real creative labor takes place.