Human Computation for Procedural Content Generation in Platform Games

Willian M. P. Reis; Levi H. S. Lelis; Yakov Gal

doi:10.1109/CIG.2015.7317906

Human Computation for Procedural Content Generation in Platform Games

Willian M. P. Reis, Levi H. S. Lelis, Yakov Gal

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Abstract

One of the major challenges in procedural content generation in computer games is to automatically evaluate whether the generated content has good quality. In this paper we describe a system which uses human computation to evaluate small portions of levels generated by an existing system for the game of Infinite Mario Bros. Several such evaluated portions are then combined into a full level of the game. The composition of the small portions into a full level is done by accounting for the human-annotated information and the mathematical model of tension arcs used in interactive drama and storytelling. We tested our system with human subjects and the results show that our approach is able to generate levels with better visual aesthetics and that are more enjoyable to play than other existing approaches.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG)
Place of Publication	Tainan, Taiwan
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	99-106
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4799-8622-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2015.7317906
Publication status	Published - 5 Nov 2015
Event	2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games - Tainan, Taiwan, Province of China Duration: 31 Aug 2015 → 2 Sep 2015 http://cig2015.nctu.edu.tw/index

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Conference	2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games
Abbreviated title	CIG 2015
Country/Territory	Taiwan, Province of China
City	Tainan
Period	31/08/15 → 2/09/15
Internet address	http://cig2015.nctu.edu.tw/index

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M. P. Reis, W, H. S. Lelis, L & Gal, Y 2015, Human Computation for Procedural Content Generation in Platform Games. in 2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG) . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Tainan, Taiwan, pp. 99-106, 2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, Tainan, Taiwan, Province of China, 31/08/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2015.7317906

Human Computation for Procedural Content Generation in Platform Games. / M. P. Reis, Willian; H. S. Lelis, Levi; Gal, Yakov.

2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG) . Tainan, Taiwan : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015. p. 99-106.

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