From Mechanics to Meaning
IEEE Transactions on Games2017Vol. 11(1), pp. 69–78
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Adam Summerville, Chris Martens, Sarah Harmon, Michael Mateas, Joseph Osborn, Noah Wardrip–Fruin, Arnav Jhala
Abstract
While generative approaches to game design offer great promise, systems can only reliably generate what they can “understand,” which is often represented in a limited, implicit form in hand-crafted evaluation functions or constructive rules. Proceduralist readings, a semiformal approach for interpreting the meaning of a game based on its underlying processes and interactions in conjunction with aesthetic and cultural cues, offer a novel, systematic approach to game understanding. We formalize proceduralist argumentation as a logic program that performs static reasoning over game specifications to derive higher level meanings, as part of Gemini, a bidirectional game analysis and generation system.
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