An experiment in automatic game design

Julian Togelius; Jürgen Schmidhuber

doi:10.1109/CIG.2008.5035629

An experiment in automatic game design

Julian Togelius, Jürgen Schmidhuber

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Abstract

This paper presents a first attempt at evolving the rules for a game. In contrast to almost every other paper that applies computational intelligence techniques to games, we are not generating behaviours, strategies or environments for any particular game; we are starting without a game and generating the game itself. We explain the rationale for doing this and survey the theories of entertainment and curiosity that underly our fitness function, and present the details of a simple proofof- concept experiment.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008
Pages	111-118
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2008.5035629
State	Published - 2008
Event	2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008 - Perth, WA, Australia Duration: Dec 15 2008 → Dec 18 2008

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Name	2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008

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Other	2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Perth, WA
Period	12/15/08 → 12/18/08

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction

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Togelius, J & Schmidhuber, J 2008, An experiment in automatic game design. in 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008., 5035629, 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008, pp. 111-118, 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008, Perth, WA, Australia, 12/15/08. https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2008.5035629

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