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.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Search-Based Approach
• Constructive Generation Methods for Dungeons and Levels
• Fractals, Noise and Agents with Applications to Landscapes and Textures
• Grammars and L-Systems with Applications to Vegetation and Levels
• Rules and Mechanics
• Planning with Applications to Quests and Story
• ASP with Applications to Mazes and Levels
• Representations for Search-Based Methods
• The Experience-Driven Perspective
• Mixed-Initiative Approaches
• Evaluating Content Generators.