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Title: | Using a surrogate model of gameplay for automated level design |
Authors: | Karavolos, Daniel Liapis, Antonios Yannakakis, Georgios N. |
Keywords: | Computer games -- Design Artificial intelligence Level design (Computer science) |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
Publisher: | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Citation: | Karavolos, D., Liapis, A., & Yannakakis, G. N. (2018). Using a surrogate model of gameplay for automated level design. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, Maastricht. |
Abstract: | This paper describes how a surrogate model of the interrelations between different types of content in the same game can be used for level generation. Specifically, the model associates level structure and game rules with gameplay outcomes in a shooter game. We use a deep learning approach to train a model on simulated playthroughs of two-player deathmatch games, in diverse levels and with different character classes per player. Findings in this paper show that the model can predict the duration and winner of the match given a top-down map of the level and the parameters of the two players’ character classes. With this surrogate model in place, we investigate which level structures would result in a balanced match of short, medium or long duration for a given set of character classes. Using evolutionary computation, we are able to discover levels which improve the balance between different classes. This opens up potential applications for a designer tool which can adapt a human authored map to fit the designer’s desired gameplay outcomes, taking account of the game’s rules. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/47371 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - InsDG |
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