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Home / Proceedings / Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment

Automatic Generation of Game Level Solutions as Storyboards

February 1, 2023

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Authors

David Pizzi,Marc Cavazza,Alex Whittaker,Jean-Luc Lugrin

University of Teesside,University of Teesside,Eidos - Beautiful Game Studios


DOI:

10.1609/aiide.v4i1.18679


Abstract:

Interactive Storytelling techniques are attracting much interest for their potential to develop new game genres but also as another form of procedural content generation, specifically dedicated to game events rather than objects or characters. However, one issue constantly raised by game developers, when discussing gameplay implications of Interactive Storytelling techniques, is the possible loss of designer control over the dynamically generated storyline. Joint research with industry has suggested a new potential use for Interactive Storytelling technologies, which stands precisely as an assistance to game design. Its basic philosophy is to generate various/all possible solutions to a given game level using the player character as the main agent, and gameplay actions as the basic elements of solution generation. We present a fully-implemented prototype which uses the blockbuster game Hitman as an application. This system uses Heuristic Search Planning to generate level solutions, each legal game action being described as a planning operator. The description of the initial state, the level's objective as well as the level layout, constitute the input data. Other parameters for the simulation include the Hitman's style, which influences the choice of certain actions and privileges a certain style of solution (e.g. stealth versus violent). As a design tool, it seemed appropriate to generate visual output which would be consistent with the current design process. In order to achieve this, we have adapted original Hitman storyboards for their use with a generated solution: we attach elements of storyboards to the planning operators so that a complete solution generates a comic strip similar to an instantiated storyboard for the solution generated. We illustrate system behaviour with specific examples of solution generation.

Topics: AIIDE

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David Pizzi,Marc Cavazza,Alex Whittaker,Jean-Luc Lugrin Automatic Generation of Game Level Solutions as Storyboards Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (2008) 96-101.

David Pizzi,Marc Cavazza,Alex Whittaker,Jean-Luc Lugrin Automatic Generation of Game Level Solutions as Storyboards AIIDE 2008, 96-101.

David Pizzi,Marc Cavazza,Alex Whittaker,Jean-Luc Lugrin (2008). Automatic Generation of Game Level Solutions as Storyboards. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 96-101.

David Pizzi,Marc Cavazza,Alex Whittaker,Jean-Luc Lugrin. Automatic Generation of Game Level Solutions as Storyboards. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment 2008 p.96-101.

David Pizzi,Marc Cavazza,Alex Whittaker,Jean-Luc Lugrin. 2008. Automatic Generation of Game Level Solutions as Storyboards. "Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment". 96-101.

David Pizzi,Marc Cavazza,Alex Whittaker,Jean-Luc Lugrin. (2008) "Automatic Generation of Game Level Solutions as Storyboards", Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, p.96-101

David Pizzi,Marc Cavazza,Alex Whittaker,Jean-Luc Lugrin, "Automatic Generation of Game Level Solutions as Storyboards", AIIDE, p.96-101, 2008.

David Pizzi,Marc Cavazza,Alex Whittaker,Jean-Luc Lugrin. "Automatic Generation of Game Level Solutions as Storyboards". Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2008, p.96-101.

David Pizzi,Marc Cavazza,Alex Whittaker,Jean-Luc Lugrin. "Automatic Generation of Game Level Solutions as Storyboards". Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, (2008): 96-101.

David Pizzi,Marc Cavazza,Alex Whittaker,Jean-Luc Lugrin. Automatic Generation of Game Level Solutions as Storyboards. AIIDE[Internet]. 2008[cited 2023]; 96-101.


ISSN: 2334-0924


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