Automated Playtesting of Matching Tile Games

Autor:	Mugrai, Luvneesh, Silva, Fernando de Mesentier, Holmgård, Christoffer, Togelius, Julian
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	Matching tile games are an extremely popular game genre. Arguably the most popular iteration, Match-3 games, are simple to understand puzzle games, making them great benchmarks for research. In this paper, we propose developing different procedural personas for Match-3 games in order to approximate different human playstyles to create an automated playtesting system. The procedural personas are realized through evolving the utility function for the Monte Carlo Tree Search agent. We compare the performance and results of the evolution agents with the standard Vanilla Monte Carlo Tree Search implementation as well as to a random move-selection agent. We then observe the impacts on both the game's design and the game design process. Lastly, a user study is performed to compare the agents to human play traces. Comment: 7 pages. IEEE Conference On Games (COG) 2019
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06570 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv