Beyond Skill Rating: Advanced Matchmaking in Ghost Recon Online
| Autor: | F. Zhang, Éric Thibodeau-Laufer, Olivier Delalleau, Emile Contal, Raul Chandias Ferrari, Yoshua Bengio |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Value (ethics)
Balance (metaphysics) Artificial neural network Multimedia Computer science media_common.quotation_subject ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING computer.software_genre Adversarial system Artificial Intelligence Control and Systems Engineering Ask price Factor (programming language) Quality (business) Electrical and Electronic Engineering Heuristics computer Software computer.programming_language media_common |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games. 4:167-177 |
| ISSN: | 1943-0698 1943-068X |
| DOI: | 10.1109/tciaig.2012.2188833 |
| Popis: | Player satisfaction is particularly difficult to ensure in online games, due to interactions with other players. In adversarial multiplayer games, matchmaking typically consists in trying to match together players of similar skill level. However, this is usually based on a single-skill value, and assumes the only factor of “fun” is the game balance. We present a more advanced matchmaking strategy developed for Ghost Recon Online, an upcoming team-focused first-person shooter (FPS) from Ubisoft (Montreal, QC, Canada). We first show how incorporating more information about players than their raw skill can lead to more balanced matches. We also argue that balance is not the only factor that matters, and present a strategy to explicitly maximize the players' fun, taking advantage of a rich player profile that includes information about player behavior and personal preferences. Ultimately, our goal is to ask players to provide direct feedback on match quality through an in-game survey. However, because such data were not available for this study, we rely here on heuristics tailored to this specific game. Experiments on data collected during Ghost Recon Online's beta tests show that neural networks can effectively be used to predict both balance and player enjoyment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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