Automated Video Game Testing Using Synthetic and Humanlike Agents

Synthesis of Facial Caricatures Using Eigenspaces and Its Applications to Humanlike Animated Agents

This paper first summarizes our unique method to synthesize facial caricatures using eigenspaces. This method can handle shape features of each facial part and arrangement features of facial parts independently. Then, in order to provide a dynamic lifelike agent based on a synthesized facial caricature, a method to represent mouth shape changes corresponding to speech and a method to give facia...

Towards a Generic Framework for Automated Video Game Level Creation

This paper presents a generative system for the automatic creation of video game levels. Our approach is novel in that it allows high-level design goals to be expressed in a top-down manner, while existing bottom-up techniques do not. We use the FI-2Pop genetic algorithm as a natural way to express both constraints and optimization goals for potential level designs. We develop a genetic encodin...

Instrumentation of Video Game Software to Support Automated Content Analyses

Content analysis of video games is an important process that supports many business, policy, social, and scholarly activities related to the games industry. Unfortunately, collecting the large quantity of data and statistics required for content analyses tends to be an incredibly arduous task. Supports are clearly necessary to facilitate content analysis procedures for video games. This paper i...

Automated Transport Planning using Agents

Constructing Game Agents from Video of Human Behavior

Developing computer game agents is often a lengthy and expensive undertaking. Detailed domain knowledge and decision-making procedures must be encoded into the agent to achieve realistic behavior. In this paper, we simplify this process by using the ICARUS cognitive architecture to construct game agents. The system acquires structured, high fidelity methods for agents that utilize a vocabulary ...