Procedural Content Generation of Puzzle Games using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

Andreas Hald; Jens Stuckermann Hansen; Jeppe Theiss Kristensen; Paolo Burelli

doi:10.1145/3402942.3409601

Procedural Content Generation of Puzzle Games using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

Andreas Hald
, Jens Stuckermann Hansen
, Jeppe Theiss Kristensen
, Paolo Burelli

Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

Abstract

In this article, we present an experimental approach to using parameterized Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to produce levels for the puzzle game Lily’s Garden1. We extract two condition-vectors from the real levels in an effort to control the details of the GAN’s outputs. While the GANs performs well in approximating the first condition (map-shape), they struggle to approximate the second condition (piece distribution). We hypothesize that this might be improved by trying out alternative architectures for both the Generator and Discriminator of the GANs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	FDG '20: International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2020
Article number	99
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450388078
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3402942.3409601
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games - Malta, Bugibba, Malta Duration: 16 Sept 2020 → 18 Sept 2020 Conference number: 2020 http://fdg2020.org/ http://fdg2020.org

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Conference	International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games
Number	2020
Location	Malta
Country/Territory	Malta
City	Bugibba
Period	16/09/2020 → 18/09/2020
Internet address	http://fdg2020.org/ http://fdg2020.org

Keywords

Generative Adversarial Networks
Puzzle Game Levels
Conditional GAN Control
Map-Shape Condition
Piece Distribution Challenge

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Hald, A, Stuckermann Hansen, J, Kristensen, JT & Burelli, P 2020, Procedural Content Generation of Puzzle Games using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks. in FDG '20: International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games., 99, Association for Computing Machinery, International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, Bugibba, Malta, 16/09/2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3402942.3409601

Procedural Content Generation of Puzzle Games using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks. / Hald, Andreas; Stuckermann Hansen, Jens; Kristensen, Jeppe Theiss et al.
FDG '20: International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. 99.

Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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Procedural Content Generation of Puzzle Games using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

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