Taking the Scenic Route: Automatic Exploration for Videogames

Understand

Machine playtesting tools and game moment search engines require exposure to the diversity of a game's state space if they are to report on or index the most interesting moments of possible play.

• Meanwhile, mobile app distribution services would like to quickly determine if a freshly-uploaded game is fit to be published.
• Having access to a semantic map of reachable states in the game would enable efficient inference in these applications.
• However, human gameplay data is expensive to acquire relative to the coverage of a game that it provides.