Mario Level Generation From Mechanics Using Scene Stitching

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This paper presents a level generation method for Super Mario by stitching together pre-generated "scenes" that contain specific mechanics, using mechanic-sequences from agent playthroughs as input specifications.

• Given a sequence of mechanics, our system uses an FI-2Pop algorithm and a corpus of scenes to perform automated level authoring.
• The system outputs levels that have a similar mechanical sequence to the target mechanic sequence but with a different playthrough experience.
• We compare our system to a greedy method that selects scenes that maximize the target mechanics.