Evolutionary Game Design

Cameron Browne; Frederic Maire

doi:10.1109/TCIAIG.2010.2041928

Evolutionary Game Design

Cameron Browne^*, Frederic Maire

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

It is easy to create new combinatorial games but more difficult to predict those that will interest human players. We examine the concept of game quality, its automated measurement through self-play simulations, and its use in the evolutionary search for new high-quality games. A general game system called Ludi is described and experiments conducted to test its ability to synthesize and evaluate new games. Results demonstrate the validity of the approach through the automated creation of novel, interesting, and publishable games.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-16
Number of pages	16
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TCIAIG.2010.2041928
Publication status	Published - Mar 2010
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Aesthetics
artificial intelligence (AI)
combinatorial game
evolutionary search
game design

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