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Robot path planning is difficult to solve due to the contradiction between optimality of results and complexity of algorithms, even in 2D environments. To find an optimal path, the algorithm needs to search all the state space, which costs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Zhaoting Li , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

We present Word2Minecraft, a system that leverages large language models to generate playable game levels in Minecraft based on structured stories. The system transforms narrative elements-such as protagonist goals, antagonist challenges,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Shuo Huang , Muhammad Umair Nasir , Steven James , Julian Togelius

This paper presents a novel approach to procedural generation of urban maps for First Person Shooter (FPS) games. A multi-agent evolutionary system is employed to place streets, buildings and other items inside the Unity3D game engine,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Jan Kruse , Ricardo Sosa , Andy M. Connor

Terrains are the main part of an electronic game. To reduce human effort on game development, procedural techniques are used to generate synthetic terrains. However rendering a terrain is not a trivial task. Their rendering techniques must…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Ricardo B. D. d'Oliveira , Antonio L. Apolinário

Open world games present players with more freedom than games with linear progression structures. However, without clearly-defined objectives, they often leave players without a sense of purpose. Most of the time, quests and objectives are…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Ryan Alexander , Chris Martens

The popular 2009 voxel based videogame, Minecraft, contains several distinct disciplines. One of which is "parkour," gameplay that focuses on traversing a world's environment with maximum efficiency. The Minecraft online community has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Eric Zipor

In this study we introduce a new technique for the generation of terrain maps, exploiting a combination of procedural generation and Neural Style Transfer. We consider our approach to be a viable alternative to competing generative models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Fabio Merizzi

Procedural content generation (PCG) is a growing field, with numerous applications in the video game industry and great potential to help create better games at a fraction of the cost of manual creation. However, much of the work in PCG is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Michael Beukman , Manuel Fokam , Marcel Kruger , Guy Axelrod , Muhammad Nasir , Branden Ingram , Benjamin Rosman , Steven James

This paper introduces the Procedural Content Generation Benchmark for evaluating generative algorithms on different game content creation tasks. The benchmark comes with 12 game-related problems with multiple variants on each problem.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Ahmed Khalifa , Roberto Gallotta , Matthew Barthet , Antonios Liapis , Julian Togelius , Georgios N. Yannakakis

Many popular video games use pseudorandom number generators to create randomly distributed locations for game objects as highly unpredictable as possible. Some scenarios like game competition also need reproducible randomness, namely the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Chenxiao Zhou

We introduce Dream-Cubed, a large-scale dataset of Minecraft worlds at voxel resolution, and a family of models using cubes as powerful compositional units for efficient generation of interactive 3D environments. Dream-Cubed comprises tens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tim Merino , Sam Earle , Ryunosuke Iwai , Julian Togelius , Edoardo Cetin

3D city generation is a desirable yet challenging task, since humans are more sensitive to structural distortions in urban environments. Additionally, generating 3D cities is more complex than 3D natural scenes since buildings, as objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Haozhe Xie , Zhaoxi Chen , Fangzhou Hong , Ziwei Liu

City scene generation has gained significant attention in autonomous driving, smart city development, and traffic simulation. It helps enhance infrastructure planning and monitoring solutions. Existing methods have employed a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Jie Deng , Wenhao Chai , Junsheng Huang , Zhonghan Zhao , Qixuan Huang , Mingyan Gao , Jianshu Guo , Shengyu Hao , Wenhao Hu , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Xi Li , Gaoang Wang

Minecraft's complexity and diversity as an open world make it a perfect environment to test if agents can learn, adapt, and tackle a variety of unscripted tasks. However, the development and validation of novel agents in this setting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Shaofei Cai , Zhancun Mu , Kaichen He , Bowei Zhang , Xinyue Zheng , Anji Liu , Yitao Liang

Three-dimensional building generation is vital for applications in gaming, virtual reality, and digital twins, yet current methods face challenges in producing diverse, structured, and hierarchically coherent buildings. We propose…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Junming Huang , Chi Wang , Letian Li , Changxin Huang , Qiang Dai , Weiwei Xu

Cities are important elements of content in digital productions, but their complexity and size make them very challenging to model. Few tools exist that can help artists with this work, even as rapid improvements in graphics hardware create…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Thomas Lechner , Ben Watson , Uri Wilenski , Seth Tisue , Martin Felsen , Andy Moddrell , Pin Ren , Craig Brozefsky

We address the challenge of generating 3D worlds from textual descriptions. We propose SynCity, a training- and optimization-free approach, which leverages the geometric precision of pre-trained 3D generative models and the artistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Paul Engstler , Aleksandar Shtedritski , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

Building a successful community means governing active populations and limited resources. This challenge often requires communities to design formal governance systems from scratch. But the characteristics of successful institutional…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Seth Frey , Qiankun Zhong , Beril Bulat , William D. Weisman , Caitlyn Liu , Stephen Fujimoto , Hannah M. Wang , Charles M. Schweik

We develop algorithms capable of tackling robust black-box optimisation problems, where the number of model runs is limited. When a desired solution cannot be implemented exactly the aim is to find a robust one, where the worst case in an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-17 Martin Hughes , Marc Goerigk , Trivikram Dokka

Urban modeling is essential for city planning, scene synthesis, and gaming. Existing image-based methods generate diverse layouts but often lack geometric continuity and scalability, while graph-based methods capture structural relations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mengyuan Niu , Xinxin Zhuo , Ruizhe Wang , Yuyue Huang , Junyan Yang , Qiao Wang