TY - GEN
T1 - General video game evaluation using relative algorithm performance profiles
AU - Nielsen, Thorbjørn S.
AU - Barros, Gabriella A B
AU - Togelius, Julian
AU - Nelson, Mark J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - In order to generate complete games through evolution we need generic and reliably evaluation functions for games. It has been suggested that game quality could be characterised through playing a game with different controllers and comparing their performance. This paper explores that idea through investigating the relative performance of different general game-playing algorithms. Seven game-playing algorithms was used to play several hand-designed, mutated and randomly generated VGDL game descriptions. Results discussed appear to support the conjecture that well-designed games have, in average, a higher performance difference between better and worse game-playing algorithms.
AB - In order to generate complete games through evolution we need generic and reliably evaluation functions for games. It has been suggested that game quality could be characterised through playing a game with different controllers and comparing their performance. This paper explores that idea through investigating the relative performance of different general game-playing algorithms. Seven game-playing algorithms was used to play several hand-designed, mutated and randomly generated VGDL game descriptions. Results discussed appear to support the conjecture that well-designed games have, in average, a higher performance difference between better and worse game-playing algorithms.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-16549-3_30
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-16549-3_30
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84925860070
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 369
EP - 380
BT - Applications of Evolutionary Computation - 18th European Conference, EvoApplications 2015, Proceedings
A2 - Squillero, Giovanni
A2 - Mora, Antonio M.
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 18th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2015
Y2 - 8 April 2015 through 10 April 2015
ER -