Deriving quests from open world mechanics

Alexander, Ryan; Martens, Chris

doi:10.1145/3102071.3102098

Cited by 16 publications

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“…Mikami et al generated tutorials for API coding libraries [23], claiming that the resulting generated tutorials helped users learn libraries more effectively than current tutorials. Alexander et al formalized the game logic of Minecraft (Mojang 2009) into mechanics to create action graphs, representing the player experience, and created quests and achievements based off those actions [1]. Another approach is that of Game-O-Matic [34], which generates arcade style games and instructions using a story-based conceptmap inputted by a user.…”

Section: Generative Methods For Tutorials and Game Mechanicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

AtDELFI

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Khalifa

Barros

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

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This paper introduces a fully automatic method for generating video game tutorials. The AtDELFI system (AuTomatically DEsigning Legible, Full Instructions for games) was created to investigate procedural generation of instructions that teach players how to play video games. We present a representation of game rules and mechanics using a graph system as well as a tutorial generation method that uses said graph representation. We demonstrate the concept by testing it on games within the General Video Game Artificial Intelligence (GVG-AI) framework; the paper discusses tutorials generated for eight different games. Our findings suggest that a graph representation scheme works well for simple arcade style games such as Space Invaders and Pacman, but it appears that tutorials for more complex games might require higher-level understanding of the game than just single mechanics.

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Section: Generative Methods For Tutorials and Game Mechanicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

AtDELFI

Green

Khalifa

Barros

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

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“…In highdegree-of-freedom games especially, it is crucial to keep players interested. Alexander and Martens [24] discussed several mechanics of the open-world games. In an open-world game (i.e., Minecraft), players explore the game space, which is typically satisfied by providing a quest system to provide players with a sense of purpose and progress via the task generation method.…”

Section: Research On the Quest Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

MMORPG Evolution Analysis from Explorer and Achiever Perspectives: A Case Study Using the Final Fantasy Series

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Due to the advent of the Internet, massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have been enjoyed worldwide by many players simultaneously, and game publishers’ revenues have reached billions of dollars from subscriptions alone. Frequent updates (e.g., versioning) and new contents (e.g., quest system) are the typical strategies adopted by developers to keep MMORPG experiences fresh and attractive. What makes such strategies attractive and retains the interest of players in MMORPGs? This study focuses on one aspect of a popular MMORPG: the player’s experience of the quest systems of Final Fantasy XIV (FF14). The different quest systems were analyzed considering Bartle’s players’ classification, specifically for the explorers and achievers. From an information science perspective, such an analysis can be achieved via game refinement (GR) theory, which formulates the information of the game’s progression into a measurable model of game sophistication. On top of that, we used the concept of motion in mind, which was derived from concepts in physics. It maps game progression information to enable the possible quantification and approximation of players’ mental movements and affective experiences in the game. Based on the analysis of the collected data using the proposed measures of GR and motion in mind, the impact of regular updates on players in long-term games is discussed. Insights from the study provide guidance and suggestions for potential improvements in long-term game design.

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“…A more general content being generated by using PCG is categorized as "content" on the figure as it does not focus on a single content but rather creating an entire system of its own as an output [70]. In term of quest focused content, several form of PCG has been known to be able to create a set of narration and stories [71], [72], while other contents are more niche such as generating music [73] or instructions for players [74].…”

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confidence: 99%

A literature review of Empirical Evidence on Procedural Content Generation in Game-Related Implementation

Hafis

Tolle

Supianto

2019

JITeCS

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Procedural Content Generation (PCG) is an emerging field of study in computer science that focuses on automating the process of generating content by using algorithm, making the content generation process with less human effort. However, a more specific empirical evidence on how it is being used in a game-related implementation are still lacking. This paper presents the findings of review performed in the past 5 years looking on how PCG are being applied in game-related content, whether it is from the basic paper characteristic to analyze the trends, the field of PCG itself, and the game domain of game model and game genre. The studies had shown that PCG are being used extensively in game-related content but has seen more uses on specific type of contents rather than being used ubiquitously in all sorts of contents. The result shown that there are not specific best type of PCG method or algorithm being used instead an array of approach can be used based on what content being created. Result also shown that PCG are being used in multiple type of games, but similarly, based on the paper found, only certain types of game benefits PCG extensively such as action and platforming games while other model and genre of games have not seen much PCG application yet. Further studies are also required to analyze how experimentation and evaluation of PCG are being done as well as PCG domain in educational games as well as game-based learning, the quality catachrestic being analyzed on the papers are also worth mentioning to understand the underlying result of PCG usage in game-related contents.

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Deriving quests from open world mechanics

Cited by 16 publications

References 5 publications

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MMORPG Evolution Analysis from Explorer and Achiever Perspectives: A Case Study Using the Final Fantasy Series

A literature review of Empirical Evidence on Procedural Content Generation in Game-Related Implementation

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