A Card Game Description Language

Font, José; Mahlmann, Tobias; Manrique, Daniel; Togelius, Julian

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-37192-9_26

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“…We envisage using VGDL as the basis for this since it provides an elegant way to describe both game levels and game rules. This track will provide a new avenue for research in the area, building on previous work [30], [18], [16], [17]. More specifically, there has already been initial work on exploring the playability of randomly generated VGDL games [31].…”

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“…Other authors have developed other GDLs, for other domains of games and/or at a higher level of abstraction (and therefore more compact). Such languages include the Ludi language for combinatorial board games [16] and the Card Game Description Language [17]. An overview of GDLs and other representations for game rules and mechanics can be found in [18].…”

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confidence: 99%

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The 2014 General Video Game Playing Competition

Peŕez-Liebana

Samothrakis

Togelius

et al. 2016

IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games

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Abstract-This paper presents the framework, rules, games, controllers and results of the first General Video Game Playing Competition, held at the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games in 2014. The competition proposes the challenge of creating controllers for general video game play, where a single agent must be able to play many different games, some of them unknown to the participants at the time of submitting their entries. This test can be seen as an approximation of General Artificial Intelligence, as the amount of game-dependent heuristics needs to be severely limited.The games employed are stochastic real-time scenarios (where the time budget to provide the next action is measured in milliseconds) with different winning conditions, scoring mechanisms, sprite types and available actions for the player. It is a responsibility of the agents to discover the mechanics of each game, the requirements to obtain a high score and the requisites to finally achieve victory. This paper describes all controllers submitted to the competition, with an in-depth description of four of them by their authors, including the winner and the runner-up entries of the contest. The paper also analyzes the performance of the different approaches submitted, and finally proposes future tracks for the competition.

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confidence: 93%

Section: Related Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

The 2014 General Video Game Playing Competition

Peŕez-Liebana

Samothrakis

Togelius

et al. 2016

IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games

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“…Game description languages are a descriptive languages that is used to define certain type/category of games. There are game description languages suited for defining board games [6], [7], card games [8], videogames [9], puzzle games [10], strategy games [11], and so on. Having a more focused language helps the generator find good games.…”

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General video game rule generation

Khalifa

Green

Peŕez-Liebana

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG)

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We introduce the General Video Game Rule Generation 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 searchbased generator. Early results indicate that the constructive generator generates playable and somewhat interesting game rules but has a limited expressive range, whereas the searchbased generator generates remarkably diverse rulesets, but with an uneven quality. 1

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“…Collins [26] introduced to procedural music in video games, exploring several approaches to procedural composition that had been used in the past. Font et al [27] presented initial research towards a system that is able to create the rules for different card games. The authors of [28] developed a prototype of a tool that automatically produces design pattern specifications for missions and quests for the role-playing game Neverwinter Nights.…”

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A Spatially-Structured PCG Method for Content Diversity in a Physics-Based Simulation Game

Lara-Cabrera

Alcoba

Fernández-Leiva

2016

Applications of Evolutionary Computation

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Abstract. This paper presents a spatially-structured evolutionary algorithm (EA) to procedurally generate game maps of different levels of difficulty to be solved, in Gravityvolve!, a physics-based simulation videogame that we have implemented and which is inspired by the nbody problem, a classical problem in the field of physics and mathematics. The proposal consists of a steady-state EA whose population is partitioned into three groups according to the difficulty of the generated content (hard, medium or easy) which can be easily adapted to handle the automatic creation of content of diverse nature in other games. In addition, we present three fitness functions, based on multiple criteria (i.e:, intersections, gravitational acceleration and simulations), that were used experimentally to conduct the search process for creating a database of maps with different difficulty in Gravityvolve!.

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A Card Game Description Language

Cited by 19 publications

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The 2014 General Video Game Playing Competition

The 2014 General Video Game Playing Competition

General video game rule generation

A Spatially-Structured PCG Method for Content Diversity in a Physics-Based Simulation Game

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