Stealth Literacy Assessments via Educational Games

Measuring risk in stealth games

Level design for stealth games requires the ability to explore and understand the possible paths players may take through a given scenario and how they are impacted by different design choices. Good tool support can help by demonstrating the existence of such paths, but for rapid, interactive design, the relative difficulty of possible solutions also needs to be quantified, in a way that correl...

Analyzing Stealth Games with Distractions

The ability to distract opponents is a key mechanic in many stealth games. Existing search-based approaches to stealth analysis, however, focus entirely on solving the non-detection problem, for which they rely on static, ahead-of-time models of guard movements that do not depend on player interaction. In this work we extend and optimize an approach based on heuristic search of stealth games to...

Online formative assessments: exploring their educational value

Introduction: Online formative assessments (OFA’s) have beenincreasingly recognised in medical education as resources thatpromote self-directed learning. Formative assessments are usedto support the self-directed learning of students. Online formativeassessments have been identified to be less time consuming withautomated feedback. This pilot study aimed to determine whetherparticipation and pe...

Procedural Guard Placement for Stealth Games

Stealth game mechanics rely on a suitably difficult distribution of enemy observers, the placement of which is typically a manual process. Here we investigate an automatic process for placement of observer opponents. We use a Monte-Carlo approach to generate randomized enemy positions and motions and combine this with a stealth path-planning and analysis framework. This allows us to ensure feas...

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