Rodrigo Canaan

Games as Co-Creative Cooperative Systems

2018 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment

Many modern creative industrial processes rely on the collaboration between multiple humans, assisted by one or more computational systems, in a complex environment. However, most traditional systems lack the adaptability required to contribute in a …

Game Mechanic Alignment Theory

2021

We present a new concept called Game Mechanic Alignment theory as a way to organize game mechanics through the lens of systemic rewards and agential motivations. By disentangling player and systemic influences, mechanics may be …

Impressions of the GDMC AI Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

The GDMC AI settlement generation challenge is a PCG competition about producing an algorithm that can create an "interesting" Minecraft settlement for a given map. This paper contains a collection of written experiences with this …