UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
             COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

                            presents

                    "Creating Game Creators -
       Present and future of procedural content in games"

                       Dr. Tobias Mahlmann
              (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)


                  19 November 2014 (Wednesday)
                    * *  11 am - 12 noon * * 

                  Hatfield, College Lane Campus
                  * * Seminar Room LC108 * * 

                  Everyone is Welcome to Attend

                  Refreshments will be available

Abstract:

Making video games is hard. Making "good" video games is even harder. It
requires the authoring of levels, worlds, stories, game mechanics, and
other content that are enjoyable and varied enough to entertain.  Perhaps
the most obvious reason for trying to generate content algorithmically is
that it removes the need for having a human designer or artist generate
that content. Humans are expensive and slow, and it seems we need more
and more of them all the time.  Of course, threatening to put designers
out of their jobs is no way to sell procedural game content generation
to designers and artists.  We could therefore turn the argument around:
content generation, especially embedded in intelligent design tools,
can augment the creativity of individual human creators. The question
therefore is: can computers come up with new games - or will they just
generate the next Halo?


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