Evolution of artificial terrains for video games based on accessibility

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6024 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 90-99

  Frade, Miguel ^a   De Vega, Francisco Fernandez ^b   Cotta, Carlos ^c  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Artificial terrains; Genetic terrain programming; Video games

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; LANDFORMS;

ACCESSIBLE AREAS; ARTIFICIAL TERRAINS; DIVERSE METHODS; EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEM; TERRAIN FEATURES; VIDEO GAME;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 77952397987     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12239-2_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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