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Exploring Representation in Evolutionary Level Design [electronic resource] / by Daniel Ashlock.

By: Ashlock, Daniel [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Synthesis Lectures on Games and Computational Intelligence: Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018Edition: 1st ed. 2018.Description: XIV, 141 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783031021206.Subject(s): Mathematics | Engineering | Computational intelligence | Popular Culture | Artificial intelligence | Mathematics | Technology and Engineering | Computational Intelligence | Popular Culture | Artificial IntelligenceAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 510 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contrasting Representations for Maze Generation -- Dual Mazes -- Terrain Maps -- Cellular Automata Based Maps -- Decomposition, Tiling, and Assembly -- Bibliography -- Author's Biography.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: Automatic content generation is the production of content for games, web pages, or other purposes by procedural means. Search-based automatic content generation employs search-based algorithms to accomplish automatic content generation. This book presents a number of different techniques for search-based automatic content generation where the search algorithm is an evolutionary algorithm. The chapters treat puzzle design, the creation of small maps or mazes, the use of L-systems and a generalization of L-system to create terrain maps, the use of cellular automata to create maps, and, finally, the decomposition of the design problem for large, complex maps culminating in the creation of a map for a fantasy game module with designersupplied content and tactical features. The evolutionary algorithms used for the different types of content are generic and similar, with the exception of the novel sparse initialization technique are presented in Chapter 2. The points where the content generation systems vary are in the design of their fitness functions and in the way the space of objects being searched is represented. A large variety of different fitness functions are designed and explained, and similarly radically different representations are applied to the design of digital objects all of which are, essentially, maps for use in games.
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contrasting Representations for Maze Generation -- Dual Mazes -- Terrain Maps -- Cellular Automata Based Maps -- Decomposition, Tiling, and Assembly -- Bibliography -- Author's Biography.

Automatic content generation is the production of content for games, web pages, or other purposes by procedural means. Search-based automatic content generation employs search-based algorithms to accomplish automatic content generation. This book presents a number of different techniques for search-based automatic content generation where the search algorithm is an evolutionary algorithm. The chapters treat puzzle design, the creation of small maps or mazes, the use of L-systems and a generalization of L-system to create terrain maps, the use of cellular automata to create maps, and, finally, the decomposition of the design problem for large, complex maps culminating in the creation of a map for a fantasy game module with designersupplied content and tactical features. The evolutionary algorithms used for the different types of content are generic and similar, with the exception of the novel sparse initialization technique are presented in Chapter 2. The points where the content generation systems vary are in the design of their fitness functions and in the way the space of objects being searched is represented. A large variety of different fitness functions are designed and explained, and similarly radically different representations are applied to the design of digital objects all of which are, essentially, maps for use in games.

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