Generative design in minecraft (GDMC)

Abstract

We introduce the Chronicle Challenge as an optional addition to the Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft. One of the foci of the overall competition is adaptive procedural content generation (PCG), an arguably under-explored problem in computational creativity. In the base challenge, participants must generate new settlements that respond to and ideally interact with existing content in the world, such as the landscape or climate. The goal is to understand the underlying creative process, and to design better PCG systems. The Chronicle Challenge in particular focuses on the generation of a narrative based on the history of a generated settlement, expressed in natural language. We discuss the unique features of the Chronicle Challenge in comparison to other competitions, clarify the characteristics of a chronicle eligible for submission and describe the evaluation criteria. We furthermore draw on simulationbased approaches in computational storytelling as examples to how this challenge could be approached.

The AI Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft

“…The GDMC AI Settlement Generation Challenge is a competition where competitors write an AI program that can create an interesting settlement for an unseen Minecraft [26] map. It was introduced [27] to encourage research into procedural content generation (PCG) [30,9,8,28,22] in games.…”

“…These four scoring categories form the basis for human evaluation, which we will discuss in more detail in the next section. More details about the challenge in general can be found on our website 1 and in our previous paper [27]. We also provided a framework based on MCEdit [1] and an example AI program to get our participants started.…”

“…Subsequently, the kept the instructions relatively brief and generic, relying on the judges expertise to translate them as appropriate. The list can be found in our previous paper [27] or the supporting material. The judges were asked to score each category between 0 and 10, with the following instructions: 0 the resulting design shows no consideration of that particular criterion at all.…”

“…In this article we report on the progress of the competition after the first year, including the submitted entries and their evaluation. We will also briefly review the technical and organizational aspects of the competition, though for a detailed discussion of those we refer the reader to our earlier paper [27]. Building on top of this previous paper, these are the three new topics covered in this paper: First, we discuss the evaluation methodology and present the numeric results of the first year.…”

Procedural Generation of Video Game Cities for Specific Video Game Genres Using WaveFunctionCollapse (WFC)

“…Also, we want to investigate the interaction of human designer and generative algorithms (WFC) more closely as discussed in these studies on computational co-creativity [2,8,17]. Furthermore, we want to take a more thorough look at the demonstration of generators expressivity [15], evaluation of generation for gameplay, and expanding the generative algorithm beyond WFC's N. Generative Design in Minecraft (GDMC) [13] also investigates city generation within video games and provides interesting ideas on challenges for human-level settlement generation that could be used as a testbed for future experiments with WFC to move closer to human-level design.…”