Modeling player experience in Super Mario Bros

CIG2009 - 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 132-139

  Pedersen, Chris ^a   Togelius, Julian ^a   Yannakakis, Georgios N ^a  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Content creation; Entertainment modeling; Fun; Neuroevolution; Platform games; Player satisfaction; Preference learning

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATORS; BEHAVIOR CHARACTERISTIC; CONTENT CREATION; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DIRECTION CHANGE; ENTERTAINMENT MODELING; LEVEL DESIGN; MODEL ACCURACY; NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; NEUROEVOLUTION; NON-LINEAR; PLAYER EXPERIENCE; PREFERENCE LEARNING; SINGLE-NEURON MODELS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 71549119498     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2009.5286482     Document Type: Conference Paper

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