GOLEM: Generator Of Life Embedded into MMOs

Abstract

Massively Multi-player Online Role-Playing Games and Massively Multiplayer Online games are complex and costly system from both a game design and a technical point of view. Among their many issues, in this paper we tackle the problem of incrementing players thrill by supplying them plenty of freshly produced, unpredictable monsters. To achieve this goal we have designed, developed and tested GOLEM, a geneticbased approach to the evolution of new species of monsters for video games.

DRAGON: diversity regulated adaptive generator online

“…For example, Mora et al [44] and Esparcia-Alcázar and Jaroslav [14] both addressing the topic of evolving agents able to survive in hostile environments populated by enemies. In the same vein, Guarneri et al [18] exploited GAs to support the automatic creation of monsters' archetypes for massive online games, while Norton et al [47] expanded and modified the approach proposed in [18] to support some game dynamics in strategic video games for mobile devices. Onieva et al [48] tested a driving system for racing games.…”

“…Probably the nearest work to our point of view is that published in 2013 by Guarneri et al [18] and applied by [47]. It described a promising first approach to the automatic generation of monsters for massive games.…”

“…Table 5 in Section 4.10 summarizes how these principles have been embedded into the algorithm of DRAGON. The use of good game design principles during the design phase of DRAGON allowed us also to overcome the intrinsic limits of GOLEM [18]. GOLEM is a stand-alone application for the generation of mobs that provided us a starting point for our work.…”

“…The remaining of this work is organized in seven sections. In Section 2 we briefly summarize how Procedural Content Generation (PGC) has been exploited in the field of video game design and development, and we examine a bit more in detail the GOLEM (Generator Of Life Embedded into MMOs) project [18] and the Experience-Driven Procedural Content Generation (EDPCG) approach [69] that we adopted as our design methodology. The following Section 3 is devoted to describing the principles that guided the design of our Diversity Regulated Adaptive Generator Online (DRAGON).…”

GHItaly'17

“…A more technical perspective is adopted by Begolo et al [9], whose work explores, through a prototypal game for mobile devices which allows to interact through ad-hoc communications, how technical performances issues could affect the gaming experience. Finally, Norton et al [10,11] work focuses on bending optimization techniques borrowed from artificial intelligence into becoming tools for increasing variety in gameplay. The second area shifts the attention from video games in general to a specific application area: that of applied games and of gamification.…”