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Can We Create Fun Games Automatically?

Posted by Soulskill on from the sounds-much-easier,-i-like-it dept.

togelius writes "What makes games fun? Some (e.g. Raph Koster) claim that fun is learning — fun games are those which are easy to learn, but hard to master, with a long and smooth learning curve. I think we can create fun game rules automatically through measuring their learnability. In a recent experiment, we do this using evolutionary computation, and create some simple Pacman-like new games completely without human intervention! Perhaps this has a future in game design? The academic paper (PDF) is available as well."

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  1. Hey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is a fun game. Really, it is.

    1. Re:Hey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The whole Rickroll thing got old around the time it was being played on talk shows and during baseball games. It was funny at first, but now that even Nanci Pelosi is in on it, you may as well link to a nice Ricky Martin or Backstreet Boys video.

  2. Re:ATTN: SWITCHEURS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What's a mac, some sort of raincoat? I don't get it.

  3. Re:ATTN: SWITCHEURS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oooh Player hater in the house, uneducated one at best.

    Seriously, why "leave Macâ(TM)s to Macâ(TM)s", instead why not convert windoze users over. I run Linux, Windows and look forward to working on a Mac in the future. Itâ(TM)s all about learning and growing as a person, and FYI your precious Mac is no longer a MAC but Linux with a Mac GUI.

    >>UNIX, the robust foundation of Mac OS X is an operating system thatâ(TM)s popular among large company- and university computers, called mainframes.

    >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS

    Hmm do I smell a pedestal someone is standing on, precariously, that needs kicking over? Why yes I do.

  4. Re:Creating stories by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hell, most of us don't even read the comments we're replying to.

    I have no idea what you said, I'm just throwing this out there.

  5. Re:ATTN: SWITCHEURS by maxwell+demon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Novell is one or two nerds in a basement together?

    --
    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
  6. Re:So Yankish... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why is it modded -1? I'll tell you why:

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    Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

  7. Re:So Yankish... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It wasn't modded -1. That's the guy's karma in action.

    If it had been modded down, I would say that it was justified since it's a flamebait directed at Americans.

  8. Re:automawhat? by techprophet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It did now? That's a serious mental illness. It's called 'Iseemagicitis'. As far as I know it's not curable.