Combining Evolutionary Search with Behaviour Cloning for Procedurally Generated Content

Designing Procedurally Generated Levels

There is an increasing demand to improve the procedural generation of game levels. Our approach empowers game designers to author and control level generators, by expressing gameplay-related design constraints. Graph grammars, resulting from these designer-expressed constraints, can generate sequences of desired player actions as well as their associated target content. These action graphs are ...

Classification of Procedurally Generated Textures

Textures are essential assets for 3D rendering, but they require a significant amount time and artistic ability to create. Procedural texture generation has been a mainstay tool often reached for by content creators to mitigate this expensive task. These tools however, are art forms in and of themselves and require a substantial skillset to create. Making these resources available to a wider co...

An Evaluation of Search Strategies for User-Generated Video Content

As the amount of user-generated content (UGC) on websites such as YouTube have experienced explosive growth, the demand for searching for relevant content has expanded at a similar pace. Unfortunately the minimally-required production effort and decentralization of content make these searches problematic. In addition, most UGC search efforts rely on notoriously noisy usersupplied tags and comme...

Towards a Procedurally Generated Experience: A Structural Analysis of Quests

In this paper, we present a quest structure, in the form of a grammar, obtained from an analysis of the main quests of a single player role playing game (RPG), namely “The Witcher 3 The Wild Hunt“. This grammar extends a previously presented analysis by other authors on MMORPG quests. This extended grammar is suitable for application in single player RPGs. The grammar allows the procedural gene...

Procedurally Generated History: building a game ecosystem through autoplay