Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games最新文献_第2页

Enabling Real-Time Prediction of In-game Deaths through Telemetry in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 在《反恐精英:全球攻势》中，通过遥测技术实时预测游戏内死亡人数

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.1145/3555858.3555859

Stefan Marshall, Paris Mavromoustakos-Blom, P. Spronck

{"title":"Enabling Real-Time Prediction of In-game Deaths through Telemetry in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive","authors":"Stefan Marshall, Paris Mavromoustakos-Blom, P. Spronck","doi":"10.1145/3555858.3555859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3555858.3555859","url":null,"abstract":"Esports have evolved into a major form of entertainment, drawing hundreds of millions of viewers to its online competitive broadcasts. Using Esports telemetry data to predict the outcome of a match is a well-researched topic, but micropredictions of specific in-game events are explored only sparingly. How accurately can we predict specific in-game events within a limited time window, and how can these predictions be used in a live broadcast? This research aims at predicting in-game deaths using telemetry data in Counter-Strike: Global offensive (CS:GO). We establish a data processing pipeline to acquire and re-structure raw in-game data and propose a set 36 features which will ultimately be used to predict in-game deaths within a three second window. Three neural network models are compared, namely convolutional (CNN), recurrent (RNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM). Our results show that the LSTM network has the best predictive accuracy (F1 0.38) when prompted, for all 10 players of a competitive game of CS:GO. The predictions are most influenced by features related to a player’s average in-game death count, health points, enemies in range and equipment value. Our model enables real-time micropredictions of deaths in CS:GO, and may be leveraged by Esports commentators and game observers to direct their focus on critical in-game events during a live competitive broadcast.","PeriodicalId":290159,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115918538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Sparklier Worlds: Understanding Games for Girls as Style Intervention 《火花世界:将女孩游戏理解为风格干预

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.1145/3555858.3555872

Carly A. Kocurek

{"title":"Sparklier Worlds: Understanding Games for Girls as Style Intervention","authors":"Carly A. Kocurek","doi":"10.1145/3555858.3555872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3555858.3555872","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines audiovisual style and play principles of successful mid-1990s games for girls titles including Barbie Fashion Designer (Mattel Media, 1996), Chop Suey (Magnet Interactive, 1995), Rockett's New School (Purple Moon, 1997), Secret Paths to the Forest (Purple Moon, 1997), and related titles. These games, developed for an audience of tween girl consumers, demonstrate a distinct style informed by the affordances of the then-emergent CD-ROM medium, by established play patterns, and by emerging research on girls’ desire for and discomfort with emerging technologies. This paper, combining methods from historical and media studies research, utilizes artifact analysis, archival research, and original and historical interviews with game developers, argues that the media-rich, multi-media design practices deployed in games for girls titles have broad utility in story-based games and for non-expert users. By using playful media cues integrated into the game's visual and narrative environment, this approach offers users subtle scaffolding, avoiding the pitfalls of overt pedagogical strategies and embedding moments of surprise and delight in sometimes unexpected places.","PeriodicalId":290159,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129739512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Charting the Uncharted with GUR: How AI Playtesting Can Supplement Expert Evaluation 用GUR绘制未知地图:AI测试如何补充专家评估

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.1145/3555858.3555880

Atiya Nova, S. Sansalone, R. Robinson, Pejman Mirza-Babaei

{"title":"Charting the Uncharted with GUR: How AI Playtesting Can Supplement Expert Evaluation","authors":"Atiya Nova, S. Sansalone, R. Robinson, Pejman Mirza-Babaei","doi":"10.1145/3555858.3555880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3555858.3555880","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the advantages of using expert evaluation as a method within games user research (GUR) (i.e. provides stakeholders low cost, rapid feedback), it does not always accurately reflect the general player’s experience. Testing the game out with real users (also called playtesting) helps bridge this gap by giving game developers an in-depth look into the player experience. However, playtesting is resource intensive and time consuming, making it difficult to implement within the tight time frames of industry game development. AI can help to mitigate some of these issues by providing an automated way to simulate player behaviour and experience. In this paper, we introduce a tool called PathOS+—a playtesting interface which uses AI playtesting data to help enhance expert evaluation. Results from a study conducted with expert participants shows how PathOS+ could contribute to game design and assist developers and researchers in conducting expert evaluations. This is an important contribution as it provides game user researchers and designers with a fast, low-cost and effective game evaluation approach which has the potential to make game evaluation more accessible to indie and smaller game studios.","PeriodicalId":290159,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129239393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

The Randomizer Community does Procedural Content Generation Research Randomizer社区负责程序内容生成研究

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.1145/3555858.3563270

Ross Mawhorter, Peter A. Mawhorter, Adam M. Smith

引用次数: 0

Structural Mismatches in Academic Game Development 学术游戏开发中的结构不匹配

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.1145/3555858.3563279

Gal Fleissig, Morgan C. Evans, Avonelle Wing, Jessica Hammer

引用次数: 1

Gamified Educational Software for Data Literacy - A Research Through Design Approach to GANDALF 数据素养的游戏化教育软件-通过设计方法对GANDALF的研究

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.1145/3555858.3555912

N. Legaki, Mattia Thibault, Juho Hamari

引用次数: 0

Automatic Interactive Documentation for Emergent Story Discovery 针对突发故事发现的自动交互式文档

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.1145/3555858.3555909

Jonathan Lessard, Antoine Beauchesne

引用次数: 0

Exploring Game Balance in the Scandinavian Fox Game with Monte-Carlo Tree Search 探索游戏平衡在斯堪的纳维亚狐狸游戏与蒙特卡洛树搜索

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.1145/3555858.3555919

Olof Mattsson, Anton Janshagen

引用次数: 0

Towards Non-Technical Designer Control over PCG Systems: Investigating an Example-Based Mechanism for Controlling Graph Grammars 面向PCG系统的非技术设计控制:研究一种基于实例的图语法控制机制

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.1145/3555858.3555895

C. Harteveld, Abdelrahman Madkour, S. Marsella

引用次数: 0

Story Designer: Towards a Mixed-Initiative Tool to Create Narrative Structures 故事设计师:创造叙事结构的混合工具

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.1145/3555858.3555929

Alberto Alvarez, J. Font, J. Togelius

{"title":"Story Designer: Towards a Mixed-Initiative Tool to Create Narrative Structures","authors":"Alberto Alvarez, J. Font, J. Togelius","doi":"10.1145/3555858.3555929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3555858.3555929","url":null,"abstract":"Narratives are a predominant part of games, and their design poses challenges when identifying, encoding, interpreting, evaluating, and generating them. One way to address this would be to approach narrative design in a more abstract layer, such as narrative structures. This paper presents Story Designer, a mixed-initiative co-creative narrative structure tool built on top of the Evolutionary Dungeon Designer (EDD) that uses tropes, narrative conventions found across many media types, to design these structures. Story Designer uses tropes as building blocks for narrative designers to compose complete narrative structures by interconnecting them in graph structures called narrative graphs. Our mixed-initiative approach lets designers manually create their narrative graphs and feeds an underlying evolutionary algorithm with those, creating quality-diverse suggestions using MAP-Elites. Suggestions are visually represented for designers to compare and evaluate and can then be incorporated into the design for further manual editions. At the same time, we use the levels designed within EDD as constraints for the narrative structure, intertwining both level design and narrative. We evaluate the impact of these constraints and the system’s adaptability and expressiveness, resulting in a potential tool to create narrative structures combining level design aspects with narrative.","PeriodicalId":290159,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128343920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2