A Controllable Co-Creative Agent for Game System Design

Understand

Many advancements have been made in procedural content generation for games, and with mixed-initiative co-creativity, have the potential for great benefits to human designers.

• However, co-creative systems for game generation are typically limited to specific genres, rules, or games, limiting the creativity of the designer.
• We seek to model games abstractly enough to apply to any genre, focusing on designing game systems and mechanics, and create a controllable, co-creative agent that can collaborate on these designs.
• We present a model of games using state-machine-like components and resource flows, a set of controllable metrics, a design evaluator simulating playthroughs with these metrics, and an evolutionary design balancer and generator.