The role of semantics in games and simulations

Tutenel, Tim; Bidarra, Rafael; Smelik, R.M.; Kraker, Klaas Jan de

doi:10.1145/1461999.1462009

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“…In our present scope, game semantics is concerned with the structure and meaning of game elements, such as level geometry and player characters [9].…”

Section: Game Semanticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Semantic Navigation Model for Video Games

Driel

Bidarra

2009

Motion in Games

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Abstract. Navigational performance of artificial intelligence (AI) characters in computer games is gaining an increasingly important role in the perception of their behavior. While recent games successfully solve some complex navigation problems, there is little known or documented on the underlying approaches, often resembling a primitive conglomerate of ad-hoc algorithms for specific situations.In this paper we develop a generic navigation model which we call semantics-based, because it enables AI to incorporate a wide variety of navigation information into the planning of a character's behavior, including raw geometry, strategic objects, and locomotion abilities. The role of semantics in this domain is highlighted and the presentation of the main components of this semantic navigation model is illustrated with a variety of examples.The semantic navigation model has been validated and implemented within a navigation system for Unreal Engine 3 that requires little level designer intervention, has a rich interface for AI programmers, and can be extended with other types of semantic information. It is concluded that using this navigation model delivers more natural paths, requires fewer world annotation, and supports dynamic re-planning.

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“…In our present scope, game semantics is concerned with the structure and meaning of game elements, such as level geometry and player characters [9].…”

Section: Game Semanticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Semantic Navigation Model for Video Games

Driel

Bidarra

2009

Motion in Games

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“…Semanticsbased modeling has been successfully applied to several fields, as surveyed in [34], including cad/cam [35], smart object behavior [36], and automatic layouts of interior scenes [37,38]. However, the role of semantics in procedural modeling has, until now, been limited, which hinders the systematic integration of all the different procedural methods.…”

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confidence: 99%

A declarative approach to procedural modeling of virtual worlds

Smelik

Tutenel

Kraker

et al. 2011

Computers & Graphics

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With the ever increasing costs of manual content creation for virtual worlds, the potential of creating it automatically becomes too attractive to ignore. However, for most designers, traditional procedural content generation methods are complex and unintuitive to use, hard to control, and generated results are not easily integrated into a complete and consistent virtual world.We introduce a novel declarative modeling approach that enables designers to concentrate on stating what they want to create instead of on describing how they should model it. It aims at reducing the complexity of virtual world modeling by combining the strengths of semantics-based modeling with manual and procedural approaches. This article describes two of its main contributions to procedural modeling of virtual worlds: interactive procedural sketching and virtual world consistency maintenance. We discuss how these techniques, integrated in our modeling framework SketchaWorld, build up to enable designers to create a complete 3D virtual world in minutes. Procedural sketching provides a fast and more intuitive way to model virtual worlds, by letting designers interactively sketch their virtual world using high-level terrain features, which are then procedurally expanded using a variety of integrated procedural methods. Consistency maintenance guarantees that the semantics of all terrain features is preserved throughout the modeling process. In particular, it automatically solves conflicts possibly emerging from interactions between terrain features.We believe that these contributions together represent a significant step towards providing more user control and flexibility in procedural modeling of virtual worlds. It can therefore be expected that by further reducing its complexity, virtual world modeling will become accessible to an increasingly broad group of users.

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“…The advantages of using rich semantic information to automatically generate games are numerous [37] as more complex, open-world, non-linear, games incorporating very rich forms of interaction are possible (i.e. authentic sandbox games).…”

Section: Procedural Content Generation and Semanticsmentioning

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A holistic approach for semantic-based game generation

Sacco

Liapis

Yannakakis

2016

2016 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG)

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Abstract-The Web contains vast sources of content that could be reused to reduce the development time and effort to create games. However, most Web content is unstructured and lacks meaning for machines to be able to process and infer new knowledge. The Web of Data is a term used to describe a trend for publishing and interlinking previously disconnected datasets on the Web in order to make them more valuable and useful as a whole. In this paper, we describe an innovative approach that exploits Semantic Web technologies to automatically generate games by reusing Web content. Existing work on automatic game content generation through algorithmic means focuses primarily on a set of parameters within constrained game design spaces such as terrains or game levels, but does not harness the potential of already existing content on the Web for game generation. We instead propose a holistic and more generally-applicable game generation solution that would identify suitable Web information sources and enrich game content with semantic meta-structures.

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The role of semantics in games and simulations

Cited by 66 publications

References 40 publications

A Semantic Navigation Model for Video Games

A Semantic Navigation Model for Video Games

A declarative approach to procedural modeling of virtual worlds

A holistic approach for semantic-based game generation

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