Automatic Game Design via Mechanic Generation
Abstract
Game designs often center on the game mechanics---rules governing the logical evolution of the game. We seek to develop an intelligent system that generates computer games. As first steps towards this goal we present a composable and cross-domain representation for game mechanics that draws from AI planning action representations. We use a constraint solver to generate mechanics subject to design requirements on the form of those mechanics---what they do in the game. A planner takes a set of generated mechanics and tests whether those mechanics meet playability requirements---controlling how mechanics function in a game to affect player behavior. We demonstrate our system by modeling and generating mechanics in a role-playing game, platformer game, and combined role-playing-platformer game.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1908.01420,
title = {Automatic Game Design via Mechanic Generation},
author = {Alexander Zook and Mark O. Riedl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.01420},
year = {2019}
}