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Analyzing action games: a hybrid systems approach

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Joseph C. Osborn,

Ricardo G. SanfeliceAuthors Info & Claims

FDG '19: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

Article No.: 8, Pages 1 - 11

https://doi.org/10.1145/3337722.3337757

Published: 26 August 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Design support tools benefit from rich information about games' emergent behavior. Inventing successful AI players for particular games can help producing some of this information, but this is both labor intensive and limited in that it can generally only reveal that a solution exists and not say that no solution exists or that certain classes of solution exist. We show a generic method for posing and answering feasible-path, optimal-path, and reachable-space queries in action games, and we devise a measure of game level difficulty. We accomplish all this by encoding action videogame characters as hybrid dynamical systems, using Flappy Bird and Super Mario as case studies.

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FDG '19: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

August 2019

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ISBN:9781450372176

DOI:10.1145/3337722

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University of York
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Graz University of Technology
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CEGCS Tampere University

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Chueca JVerón JFont JPérez FCetina C(2024)The consolidation of game software engineering: A systematic literature review of software engineering for industry-scale computer gamesInformation and Software Technology10.1016/j.infsof.2023.107330165(107330)Online publication date: Jan-2024
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