Cognitively-Grounded Procedural Content Generation

Procedural content generators overly focused on numeric variations of content suffer from what we term the Kaleidoscope Effect : because we readily grasp the potential of the generative space, it is not interesting. In this position paper, we argue that the future of procedural content generation will be limited by this effect. We therefore propose a shift toward cognitively-grounded procedural content generators as a promising next step for artificial intelligence in games.