Tanagra: A mixed-initiative level design tool

FDG 2010 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 209-216

  Smith, Gillian ^a   Whitehead, Jim ^a   Mateas, Michael ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

AI assisted design; Games; Level design; Procedural content generation

Indexed keywords

DESIGN GAMES; DESIGN TOOL; EDITING OPERATIONS; EXACT GEOMETRY; LEVEL DESIGN; MIXED-INITIATIVE; PLAYABILITY;

DESIGN;

EID: 77955145022     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1822348.1822376     Document Type: Conference Paper

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