A procedural procedural level generator generator

Manuel Kerssemakers; Jeppe Tuxen; Julian Togelius; Georgios N. Yannakakis

doi:10.1109/CIG.2012.6374174

A procedural procedural level generator generator

Manuel Kerssemakers, Jeppe Tuxen, Julian Togelius, Georgios N. Yannakakis

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Abstract

Procedural content generation (PCG) is concerned with automatically generating game content, such as levels, rules, textures and items. But could the content generator itself be seen as content, and thus generated automatically? This would be very useful if one wanted to avoid writing a content generator for a new game, or if one wanted to create a content generator that generates an arbitrary amount of content with a particular style or theme. In this paper, we present a procedural procedural level generator generator for Super Mario Bros. It is an interactive evolutionary algorithm that evolves agent-based level generators. The human user makes the aesthetic judgment on what generators to prefer, based on several views of the generated levels including a possibility to play them, and a simulation-based estimate of the playability of the levels. We investigate the characteristics of the generated levels, and to what extent there is similarity or dissimilarity between levels and between generators.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2012 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2012
Pages	335-341
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2012.6374174
State	Published - 2012
Event	2012 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2012 - Granada, Spain Duration: Sep 11 2012 → Sep 14 2012

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Other	2012 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2012
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Granada
Period	9/11/12 → 9/14/12

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Artificial Intelligence
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Human-Computer Interaction
Software

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A procedural procedural level generator generator. / Kerssemakers, Manuel; Tuxen, Jeppe; Togelius, Julian et al.
2012 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2012. 2012. p. 335-341 6374174 (2012 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2012).

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Kerssemakers, M, Tuxen, J, Togelius, J & Yannakakis, GN 2012, A procedural procedural level generator generator. in 2012 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2012., 6374174, 2012 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2012, pp. 335-341, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2012, Granada, Spain, 9/11/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2012.6374174

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