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We introduce the General Video Game Rule Gen- eration problem, and the eponymous software framework which will be used in a new track of the General Video Game AI (GVGAI) competition. The problem is, given a game level as input, to generate the rules of a game that fits that level. This can be seen as the inverse of the General Video Game Level Generation problem. Conceptualizing these two problems as separate helps breaking the very hard problem of generating complete games into smaller, more manageable subproblems. The proposed framework builds on the GVGAI software and thus asks the rule generator for rules defined in the Video Game Description Language. We describe the API, and three different rule generators: a random, a constructive and a search- based generator. Early results indicate that the constructive generator generates playable and somewhat interesting game rules but has a limited expressive range, whereas the search- based generator generates remarkably diverse rulesets, but with an uneven quality.
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“Press Space To Fire”: Automatic Video Game Tutorial Generation
We propose the problem of tutorial generation for games, i.e. to generate tutorials which can teach players to play games, as an AI problem. This problem can be approached in several ways, including generating natural language descriptions of game rules, generating instructive game levels, and generating demonstrations of how to play a game using agents that play in a human-like manner. We further argue that the General Video Game AI framework provides a useful testbed for addressing this problem.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1717324
- PAR ID:
- 10132608
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Workshop on Experimental AI in Games
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- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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