Automated Isovist Computation for Minecraft

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03752v1
• Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 21:41:06 GMT
• Title: Automated Isovist Computation for Minecraft
• Authors: Jean-Baptiste Herv\'e, Christoph Salge
• Abstract summary: We develop a new set of automated metrics, motivated by ideas from architecture, namely isovists and space syntax. These metrics can be computed for a specific game state, from the player's perspective, and take into account their embodiment in the game world. We show how to apply those metrics to the 3d blockworld of Minecraft.
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• Abstract: Procedural content generation for games is a growing trend in both research and industry, even though there is no consensus of how good content looks, nor how to automatically evaluate it. A number of metrics have been developed in the past, usually focused on the artifact as a whole, and mostly lacking grounding in human experience. In this study we develop a new set of automated metrics, motivated by ideas from architecture, namely isovists and space syntax, which have a track record of capturing human experience of space. These metrics can be computed for a specific game state, from the player's perspective, and take into account their embodiment in the game world. We show how to apply those metrics to the 3d blockworld of Minecraft. We use a dataset of generated settlements from the GDMC Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft and establish several rank-based correlations between the isovist properties and the rating human judges gave those settelements. We also produce a range of heat maps that demonstrate the location based applicability of the approach, which allows for development of those metrics as measures for a game experience at a specific time and space.

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