Mech-Elites: Illuminating the Mechanic Space of GVGAI

02/11/2020

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by   Megan Charity, et al.

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This paper introduces a fully automatic method of mechanic illumination for general video game level generation. Using the Constrained MAP-Elites algorithm and the GVG-AI framework, this system generates the simplest tile based levels that contain specific sets of game mechanics and also satisfy playability constraints. We apply this method to illuminate mechanic space for 4 different games in GVG-AI: Zelda, Solarfox, Plants, and RealPortals.