Aaron Bauer

TL;DR: A general graph-based representation for game levels is described and a preliminary system that leverages this representation is presented that automatically explores existing levels of a 2D platform game using the rapidly-exploring random tree (RRT) algorithm and constructs a compact graph representation from this exploration.

TL;DR: It is found that collaboration and competition are associated with increased participation and that collaboration increases individual performance, and that measures of group skill, individual skill, and participation correlate with better group performance.

TL;DR: This work develops both a general framework and specific implementation for providing a designer a way to reason about and edit a game level’s playspace using a small set of local playspace edits and constraints.

TL;DR: To address the challenges posed by the scale, complexity, and ill-structuredness of Foldit solver behavior data, this work devise an iterative visualization-based methodology and use this methodology to design a concise, meaning-rich visualization of the problem-solving process in Foldit.