A documental approach to adventure game development

… Computing-ICEC 2006, 2006

Abstract. In this paper we describe a language-driven approach to the development of videogames. In our approach the development process starts with the design of a suitable domain-specific language for building games, along with an abstract syntax for the ...

Attractive and realistic content has always played a crucial role in the penetration and popularity of digital games, virtual environments, and other multimedia applications. Procedural content generation enables the automatization of production of any type of game content including not only landscapes and narratives but also game mechanics and generation of whole games. The article offers a comparative analysis of the approaches to automatic generation of content for video games proposed in last five years. It suggests a new typology of the use of procedurally generated game content comprising of categories structured in three groups: content nature, generation process, and game dependence. Together with two other taxonomies – one of content type and the other of methods for content generation – this typology is used for comparing and discussing some specific approaches to procedural content generation in three promising research directions based on applying personalization and adaptation, descriptive languages, and semantic specifications.

2020

The creation of video games involves multidisciplinary processes that are not accessible to the general public. Currently, the development environments are very powerful tools, but they also require an advanced technical level to even start using them. This article presents a 2D game development environment to propose an alternative model to reduce the technical complexity existing in these systems, presenting a data model and a game editor that allows fulfilling this goal. In order to test its capabilities, several games have been successfully implemented in the proposed environment. With this achievement, it can be stated that it is possible to create video games simply and affordably for the general public without giving up its potential and remarking that there is still a long way to go to reach democratization in the creation of video games and the need to continue working in this field.

2002

Abstract: Interactive storytelling can be based either on explicit plot representations or on the autonomous behaviour of artificial characters. In such a character-based approach, the dynamic interaction between characters generates the actual plot from a generic storyline. Characters' behaviours are implemented through real-time search-based planning techniques.

Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2020

In recent years, the increasing popularity of casual games for mobile and web has promoted the development of new editors to make video games easier to create. The development of these interactive applications is on its way to becoming democratized, so that anyone who is interested, without any advanced knowledge of programming, can create them for devices such as mobile phones or consoles. Nevertheless, most game development environments rely on the traditional way of programming and need advanced technical skills, even despite today's improvements. This paper presents a new 2D game engine that reduces the complexity of video game development processes. The game specification has been simplified, decreasing the complexity of the engine architecture and introducing a very easy-to-use editing environment for game creation. The engine presented here allows the behaviour of the game objects to be defined using a very small set of conditions and actions, without the need to use complex data structures. Some experiments have been designed in order to validate its ease of use and its capacity in the creation of a wide variety of games. To test it, users with little experience in programming have developed arcade games using the presented environment as a proof of its easiness with respect to other comparable software. Results obtained endorse the concept and the hypothesis of its easiness of use and demonstrate the engine potential.

International Journal of Education, 2019

In recent years, video games have become increasingly popular and used not only for entertainment but also in the form of serious games in the process of education and vocational training, in advertising campaigns, etc. However, serious games still cannot be used widely by teachers and instructors mainly because of their high-cost development and difficulties in maintaining educational content and integration of different pedagogical strategies in the game depending on training goals. Therefore, there is a need for software platforms for design and generation of video games for educational purposes from trainers and pedagogues. In this article, we present an open software platform that allows non-IT professionals like teachers, pedagogues, and educationalists to construct and generate rich educational video maze games. The platform is under development in the scope of the APOGEE (smArt adaPtive videO GamEs for Education) research project and includes an online, metadata-driven editor for design of rich educational maze games. The designed games can be exported in the form of an XML document including the semantic structure of game, didactic content and audiovisual interiors of maze halls. The editor is controlled by a predefined XSD schema which is used for user-input validation. The editor's purpose is to remove the complexity for non-technical people and to allow them easily to build an XML document of maze configuration that will be imported into the Unity 3D environment. Hereby, non-IT professionals will be able easily to create and generate new rich educational maze games incorporating targeted educational content and pedagogical strategies.

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Serious games (SGs), the confluence of e-learning and videogames, have been developing very fast these past years. Indeed, SGs combine aspects of tutoring, teaching, training, communication and information, with entertainment elements derived from videogames, in order to capture people's attention for purposes that go beyond pure entertainment. However, the creation of a SG for educational purposes and professional training is a very time-consuming and expensive process. The challenge is to combine learning objectives and fun characteristics with an acceptable budget and time. For these reasons, we propose an interactive authoring environment, called EDoS (Environment for the Design of Serious Games), designed to assist SG authoring team.

2018

In a complex and expensive area, such as the development of educational games, solutions that advocate the collaboration, sharing, and reuse are important in order to make possible the area advance and also encourage that these educational resources can be effectively used by their target audience: teachers and students. This article presents the REMAR 1 platform which aims to make easier the creation and sharing of open educational games. Besides, this article presents the initial results obtained in the pilot tests involving the proposed platform usage by students, teachers and game developers.

Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Language Generation and Summarisation - UCNLG+Sum '09, 2009

Users of Natural Language Generation systems are required to have sophisticated linguistic and sometimes even programming knowledge, which has hindered the adoption of this technology by individuals outside the computational linguistics research community. We have designed and implemented a visual environment for creating and modifying NLG templates which requires no programming ability and minimum linguistic knowledge. It allows specifying templates with any number of variables and dependencies between them. Internally, it uses SimpleNLG to provide the linguistic background knowledge. We tested the performance of our system in the context of an interactive simulation game. We describe the templates used for testing and show examples of sentences that our system generates from these templates.

2020

This work belongs to the field of development and research of video games. In particular, the narrative part of video games is considered. The paper examines the existing practices of designing, developing and testing interactive storytelling of video games. The paper suggests a tool that automates these processes is proposed. The practice of developing a scenario prototype is described. Its effectiveness in development has been proven. The implications of the introduction of practice in the development of the narrative of video games are analyzed. The paper gives an analysis of relevant reference tools. Existing text-based visualization tools are analyzed. The paper forms the vision of the tool and shows its development progress. Describes the implementation of the storyboard visualization component. The paper proves the effectiveness of the development and sets plans for the future. In the future, work will continue to develop and expand the functionality of the script prototype g...