Crowdsourcing the aesthetics of platform games

IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 276-290

  Shaker, Noor ^a   Yannakakis, Georgios N ^b   Togelius, Julian ^a  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

Author keywords

Computational aesthetics; experience driven procedural content generation; player experience modeling

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS; COMPUTATIONAL AESTHETICS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; FREQUENT SEQUENCES; LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION; NUMERICAL FEATURES; PLAYER EXPERIENCE MODELING; PROCEDURAL CONTENT GENERATIONS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84884510477     PISSN: 1943068X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2012.2231413     Document Type: Article

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