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Initial Results from Co-operative Co-evolution for Automated Platformer Design

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Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplications 2012)

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We present initial results from ACCME, A Co-operative Co-evolutionary Metroidvania Engine, which uses co-operative co-evolution to automatically evolve simple platform games. We describe the system in detail and justify the use of co-operative co-evolution. We then address two fundamental questions about the use of this method in automated game design, both in terms of its ability to maximise fitness functions, and whether our choice of fitness function produces scores which correlate with player preference in the resulting games.

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  1. Computational Creativity Group, Imperial College, London, UK

    Michael Cook, Simon Colton & Jeremy Gow

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, 16 Richmond Street, G1 1XQ, Glasgow, UK

    Cecilia Di Chio

  2. Financial Mathematics and Computation Cluster Natural Computing Research and Applications Group Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory, University College, Dublin, Ireland

    Alexandros Agapitos

  3. Department of Computer Engineering, University of Parma, Viale Usberti 181/a, 43100, Parma, Italy

    Stefano Cagnoni

  4. ETSI Informática, Universidad de Málaga, Campus de Teatinos, 29071, Málaga, Spain

    Carlos Cotta

  5. Centro Universitario de Merida, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain

    Francisco Fernández de Vega

  6. Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), Lugano, Switzerland

    Gianni A. Di Caro

  7. DFKI Bremen, Cyber-Physical Systems, Bremen, Germany

    Rolf Drechsler

  8. Knowledge Engineering Research Group, Aston University, B4 7ET, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, UK

    Anikó Ekárt

  9. Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Edif. 8G Acceso B, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 46022, Valencia, Spain

    Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar

  10. Next Generation Intelligent Networks Research Center (nexGIN RC), National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences (FAST-NU), Islamabad, Pakistan

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  12. Depto. Arquitectura y Tecnologa de Computadores, ETS Ingeiera Informtica, C/Daniel Saucedo Aranda, s/n, 18071, Granada, Spain

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  13. Chair of Algorithm Engineering, Computational Intelligence Group, Dept. of Computer Science, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany

    Mike Preuss

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  16. Centre for Informatics and Systems, University of Coimbra, Portugal

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  17. Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

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  18. Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking, ICAR-CNR, Naples, Italy

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  19. Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy

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  21. Centre for Emergent Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh,, UK

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Cook, M., Colton, S., Gow, J. (2012). Initial Results from Co-operative Co-evolution for Automated Platformer Design. In: Di Chio, C., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computation. EvoApplications 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7248. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29178-4_20

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