DOI:
10.1609/aiide.v13i1.12952
Abstract:
Although there has been much work on procedural content generation for other game genres, very few researchers have tackled automated content generation for educational games. In this paper, we present a template-based, automatic puzzle generator for an educational puzzle programming game called BOTS. Two experts created their own new puzzles and evaluated generator-generated puzzles for meeting the educational goals, the structural and visual novelty. We show that our generator can generate puzzles with expert-designed educational goals while saving experts more than 80% of creation time, and these puzzles exhibit structural and visual novelty compared to expert-created puzzles. The contribution of this work is defined and implemented the first template-based automatic puzzle generator that saves expert time while incorporating expert-designed educational goals and enhancing puzzle.