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Agents for educational games and simulations
This book consists mainly of revised papers that were presented at the Agents for Educational Games and Simulation (AEGS) workshop held on May 2, 2011, as part of the Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS) conference in Taipei, Taiwan. The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers are organized topical sections on middleware applications, dialogues and learning, adaption and convergence, and agent applications
An Integrated Framework for AI Assisted Level Design in 2D Platformers
The design of video game levels is a complex and critical task. Levels need
to elicit fun and challenge while avoiding frustration at all costs. In this
paper, we present a framework to assist designers in the creation of levels for
2D platformers. Our framework provides designers with a toolbox (i) to create
2D platformer levels, (ii) to estimate the difficulty and probability of
success of single jump actions (the main mechanics of platformer games), and
(iii) a set of metrics to evaluate the difficulty and probability of completion
of entire levels. At the end, we present the results of a set of experiments we
carried out with human players to validate the metrics included in our
framework.Comment: Submitted to the IEEE Game Entertainment and Media Conference 201
Generative Design in Minecraft (GDMC), Settlement Generation Competition
This paper introduces the settlement generation competition for Minecraft,
the first part of the Generative Design in Minecraft challenge. The settlement
generation competition is about creating Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents
that can produce functional, aesthetically appealing and believable settlements
adapted to a given Minecraft map - ideally at a level that can compete with
human created designs. The aim of the competition is to advance procedural
content generation for games, especially in overcoming the challenges of
adaptive and holistic PCG. The paper introduces the technical details of the
challenge, but mostly focuses on what challenges this competition provides and
why they are scientifically relevant.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, Part of the Foundations of Digital Games 2018
proceedings, as part of the workshop on Procedural Content Generatio
Experience-driven procedural content generation (extended abstract)
Procedural content generation is an increasingly
important area of technology within modern human-computer
interaction with direct applications in digital games, the semantic
web, and interface, media and software design. The personalization
of experience via the modeling of the user, coupled with the
appropriate adjustment of the content according to user needs
and preferences are important steps towards effective and meaningful
content generation. This paper introduces a framework for
procedural content generation driven by computational models of
user experience we name Experience-Driven Procedural Content
Generation. While the framework is generic and applicable to
various subareas of human computer interaction, we employ
games as an indicative example of content-intensive software that
enables rich forms of interaction.The research was supported, in part, by the FP7 ICT projects
C2Learn (318480) and iLearnRW (318803).peer-reviewe
Modelling affect for horror soundscapes
The feeling of horror within movies or games relies on the audience’s perception of a tense atmosphere — often achieved
through sound accompanied by the on-screen drama — guiding its emotional experience throughout the scene or game-play
sequence. These progressions are often crafted through an a priori knowledge of how a scene or game-play sequence will playout, and
the intended emotional patterns a game director wants to transmit. The appropriate design of sound becomes even more challenging
once the scenery and the general context is autonomously generated by an algorithm. Towards realizing sound-based affective
interaction in games this paper explores the creation of computational models capable of ranking short audio pieces based on
crowdsourced annotations of tension, arousal and valence. Affect models are trained via preference learning on over a thousand
annotations with the use of support vector machines, whose inputs are low-level features extracted from the audio assets of a
comprehensive sound library. The models constructed in this work are able to predict the tension, arousal and valence elicited by
sound, respectively, with an accuracy of approximately 65%, 66% and 72%.peer-reviewe
Ludo: A Case Study for Graph Transformation Tools
In this paper we describe the Ludo case, one of the case studies of the AGTIVE 2007 Tool Contest (see [22]). After summarising the case description, we give an overview of the submitted solutions. In particular, we propose a number
of dimensions along which choices had to be made when solving the case, essentially setting up a solution space; we then plot the spectrum of solutions actually encountered into this solution space. In addition, there is a brief description of the special features of each of the submissions, to do justice to those aspects that are not distinguished in the general solution space
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