Exploring a Large Space of Small Games

Gabriella Barros; Julian Togelius

Exploring a Large Space of Small Games

Gabriella Barros
, Julian Togelius

Center for Digital Play

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Abstract

We explore the soundness and playability of randomly generated games expressed in the Video Game Description Language (VGDL). A grammar is defined for VGDL, which is able to express a large variety of simple arcade-like games, and random expansions of this grammar are fed to a VGDL interpreter and played with off the shelf agents. We see this work as the first step towards generating complete, playable games.

Original language	English
Publication date	2014
Number of pages	2
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games - Dortmund, Germany Duration: 26 Aug 2014 → 29 Aug 2014 http://www.cig2014.de/doku.php

Conference

Conference	IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Dortmund
Period	26/08/2014 → 29/08/2014
Internet address	http://www.cig2014.de/doku.php

Keywords

VGDL
Procedural content generation

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