The Number One Educational Resource for the Game Industry
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Overview:
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In this presentation, Seth Cooper, Associate Professor at Northeastern University, will demonstrate how general constraint solvers can enable highly controllable tile map level generation and editing. Constraint solving allows designers to specify what they want in their levels, rather than needing to determine how to achieve it with hand-coded algorithms. Seth will discuss a system that leverages state-of-the-art constraint solving techniques to generate and edit levels incorporating a variety of constraints. These include: constraints learned from example levels, constraints on what should be in a level and where it should be, and goal reachability constraints. He will demonstrate the system in several games and show applications ranging from infilling and repair to generating diverse sets of levels. He will also discuss more recent and ongoing work using the system to blend features of different games, model more complex mechanics via constraints to create playability examples, and generate graph structures.
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