Cook, Michael
Would You Look At That! Vision-Driven Procedural Level Design
Cook, Michael (Falmouth University)
In this paper we present a technique for procedurally generating sections of 3D level geometry using computational evolution and guided by the visibility of certain game objects or areas during play. We show that certain level design goals can be achieved in the resulting levels, such as encouraging or dissuading player sightings of certain objects or locations. We also give details of a simple study of players on the generated levels, and discuss how this might be expanded to incorporate more complex problems related to level design.
Reports of the Workshops Held at the Tenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment
Barnes, Tiffany (North Carolina State University) | Bown, Oliver (University of Sydney) | Buro, Michael (University of Alberta) | Cook, Michael (Goldsmiths College, University of London) | Eigenfeldt, Arne (Simon Fraser University) | Muรฑoz-Avila, Hรฉctor (Lehigh University) | Ontaรฑรณn, Santiago (Drexel University) | Pasquier, Philippe (Simon Fraser University) | Tomuro, Noriko (DePaul University) | Young, R. Michael (North Carolina State University) | Zook, Alexander (Georgia Institute of Technology)
The AIIDE-14 Workshop program was held Friday and Saturday, October 3โ4, 2014 at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. The workshop program included five workshops covering a wide range of topics. The titles of the workshops held Friday were Games and Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence in Adversarial Real-Time Games. The titles of the workshops held Saturday were Diversity in Games Research, Experimental Artificial Intelligence in Games, and Musical Metacreation.
Reports of the Workshops Held at the Tenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment
Barnes, Tiffany (North Carolina State University) | Bown, Oliver (University of Sydney) | Buro, Michael (University of Alberta) | Cook, Michael (Goldsmiths College, University of London) | Eigenfeldt, Arne (Simon Fraser University) | Muรฑoz-Avila, Hรฉctor (Lehigh University) | Ontaรฑรณn, Santiago (Drexel University) | Pasquier, Philippe (Simon Fraser University) | Tomuro, Noriko (DePaul University) | Young, R. Michael (North Carolina State University) | Zook, Alexander (Georgia Institute of Technology)
The AIIDE-14 Workshop program was held Friday and Saturday, October 3โ4, 2014 at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. The workshop program included five workshops covering a wide range of topics. The titles of the workshops held Friday were Games and Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence in Adversarial Real-Time Games. The titles of the workshops held Saturday were Diversity in Games Research, Experimental Artificial Intelligence in Games, and Musical Metacreation. This article presents short summaries of those events.
A Rogue Dream: Automatically Generating Meaningful Content For Games
Cook, Michael (Goldsmiths, University of London) | Colton, Simon (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Procedural content generation is often seen simply as a means to generate stuff, elaborating on or rearranging abstract data types that describe levels or modular pieces of gameplay. Generating content which is situated in an understanding of the real-world is a much harder task; it requires access to large amounts of knowledge, and a good technique for parsing and using that knowledge. In this paper we describe A Rogue Dream, a game prototype which can generate new visual content and change its design based on an input word from the player at the start of the game. We describe the game and the tools it makes use of to do this, and use the game to discuss ways in which such techniques might enable unique kinds of gameplay or new directions for intelligent design tools.
Workshops Held at the Ninth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE): A Report
Liapis, Antonios (Technical University of Copenhagen) | Cook, Michael (Goldsmiths College London) | Smith, Adam M. (University of Washington) | Smith, Gillian (Northeastern University) | Zook, Alexander (Georgia Institute of Technology) | Si, Mei (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) | Cavazza, Marc (Teesside University) | Pasquier, Philippe (Simon Fraser University)
The Ninth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) was held October 14โ18, 2013, at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Workshops were held on the two days prior to the start of the main conference, giving attendees a chance to hold in-depth discussions on topics that complement the themes of the main conference program. This year the workshops included the First Workshop on AI and Game Aesthetics (1 day), The Second Workshop on AI in the Game Design Process (1 day), The Second International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (2 day), The Sixth Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (2 day).
Workshops Held at the Ninth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE): A Report
Liapis, Antonios (Technical University of Copenhagen) | Cook, Michael (Goldsmiths College London) | Smith, Adam M. (University of Washington) | Smith, Gillian (Northeastern University) | Zook, Alexander (Georgia Institute of Technology) | Si, Mei (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) | Cavazza, Marc (Teesside University) | Pasquier, Philippe (Simon Fraser University)
The workshop was accompanied by an evening Games are unique in that their components event, DAGGER, which drew together local game developers (from the rules and goals of the game to the appearance and academic research projects. Acting both of avatars and their dialogue) must encompass as an exhibition and as an informal gathering, the both functional and aesthetic prerequisites. Artificial DAGGER event allowed attendees to interact directly intelligence usually focuses on the functional quality with a wide variety of game types and technologies, of such game components, for example, ensuring as well as with their developers. As events such that an avatar can traverse a level in minimal time or as DAGGER help bridge the gap between theoretical that AI can win over any human in a strategy game. The papers avatar, or level would appeal to a particular player. of the workshop were published as AAAI Technical The Workshop on AI and Game Aesthetics provided Report WS-13-19.
Aesthetic Considerations for Automated Platformer Design
Cook, Michael (Imperial College, London) | Colton, Simon (Imperial College, London ) | Pease, Alison (Imperial College, London)
We describe ANGELINA3, a system that can automatically develop games along a defined theme, by selecting appropriate multimedia content from a variety of sources and incorporating it into a game's design. We discuss these capabilities in the context of the FACE model for assessing progress in the building of creative systems, and discuss how ANGELINA3 can be improved through further work.