Polymorph: Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment through level generation

Workshop on Procedural Content Generation in Games, PC Games 2010, Co-located with the 5th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jennings Teats, Martin ^a   Smith, Gillian ^a   Wardrip Fruin, Noah ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment; Games; Level design; Procedural content generation

Indexed keywords

BASIC PARAMETERS; DDA TECHNIQUE; GAMES; LEVEL DESIGN; MACHINE-LEARNING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SKILL LEVELS;

DESIGN; POLYMORPHISM;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE;

EID: 77954970112     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1814256.1814267     Document Type: Conference Paper

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