AudioInSpace : exploring the creative fusion of generative audio, visuals and gameplay

Computer games are unique creativity domains in that they elegantly fuse several facets of creative work including visuals, narra- tive, music, architecture and design. While the exploration of possibil- ities across facets of creativity o ers a more realistic approach to the game design process, most existing autonomous (or semi-autonomous) game content generators focus on the mere generation of single domains (creativity facets) in games. Motivated by the sparse literature on mul- tifaceted game content generation, this paper introduces a multifaceted procedural content generation (PCG) approach that is based on the in- teractive evolution of multiple arti cial neural networks that orchestrate the generation of visuals, audio and gameplay. The approach is evaluated on a spaceship shooter game. The generated artifacts|a fusion of audio- visual and gameplay elements | showcase the capacity of multifaceted PCG and its evident potential for computational game creativity.This re-search is supported, in part, by the FP7 ICT project C2Learn (project no: 318480) and by the FP7 Marie Curie CIG project AutoGameDesign (project no: 630665).peer-reviewe