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Content Generation for Serious Games

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Content is a key component for successful computer games and it is also one of the most labour and time intensive tasks a game developer can face. As the scale of contemporary games increases, players come to expect higher standards of fidelity and immersion, thus increasing the need to create large amounts of content. This chapter focuses on the creation of content for serious games, particularly research that can aid designers and game developers in generating large amounts of content quickly and effectively. While game developers have had many tools and methods for creating content for standard computer games, this chapter will concentrate on the types of content specific to serious games.

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  1. Centre for Digital Entertainment, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK

    Rahul Dey

  2. Sony Interactive Entertainment, Euro R&D, London, UK

    Rahul Dey

  3. Department VI Information Technology and Media, Beuth University for Applied Sciences Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Johannes Konert

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  2. Technische Universität Darmstadt , Darmstadt, Germany

    Stefan Göbel

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    Michael Kickmeier-Rust

  4. University of Duisburg-Essen , Duisburg, Germany

    Maic Masuch

  5. TU Kaiserslautern , Kaiserslautern, Germany

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  • Procedural Content Generation in Games: A Textbook and an Overview of Current Research (http://pcgbook.com)

  • Texturing and Modelling: A Procedural Approach, Ebert et al.

  • Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Norvig

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Dey, R., Konert, J. (2016). Content Generation for Serious Games. In: Dörner, R., Göbel, S., Kickmeier-Rust, M., Masuch, M., Zweig, K. (eds) Entertainment Computing and Serious Games. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9970. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46152-6_8

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