Procedural Content Generation in Games

• Main Authors: Shaker, Noor (Author), Togelius, Julian (Author), Nelson, Mark J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Computational Synthesis and Creative Systems,
• Subjects: Computer science.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence.; Application software.; Computational intelligence.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Game Development.; Computational Intelligence.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.
• Physical Description: XVI, 237 p. 103 illus., 57 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319427164
• ISSN: 2509-6575

This book presents the most up-to-date coverage of procedural content generation (PCG) for games, specifically the procedural generation of levels, landscapes, items, rules, quests, or other types of content. Each chapter explains an algorithm type or domain, including fractal methods, grammar-based methods, search-based and evolutionary methods, constraint-based methods, and narrative, terrain, and dungeon generation. The authors are active academic researchers and game developers, and the book is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students of courses on games and creativity; game developers who want to learn new methods for content generation; and researchers in related areas of artificial intelligence and computational intelligence.