Can We Create Fun Games Automatically?

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togelius writes "What makes games fun? Some (e.g. Raph Koster) claim that fun is learning — fun games are those which are easy to learn, but hard to master, with a long and smooth learning curve. I think we can create fun game rules automatically through measuring their learnability. In a recent experiment, we do this using evolutionary computation, and create some simple Pacman-like new games completely without human intervention! Perhaps this has a future in game design? The academic paper (PDF) is available as well."http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/01/15/068236 (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/15/068236&from=rss)
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