Is Your Game Generator Working? Evaluating Gemini, an Intentional Generator

• DOI: 10.1609/aiide.v15i1.5225
• Publication Date: 2022-10-18T07:08:42Z
• Authors: Joseph C. Osborn; Melanie Dickinson; Barrett Anderson; Adam Summerville; Jill Denner; David Torres; Noah Wardrip-Fruin; Michael Mateas
• Keywords: Framing (construction); Interpretability

Determining whether a game generator is working properly challenging, since it entails conducting potentially many evaluations of generated games and synthesizing these into net evaluation the system. The problem compounded when has human-centered goal: for example, that should be interpreted as having certain mechanics or being about particular ideas. In this paper, we examine Gemini develop an instrument tests interpretability its games’ higher-order proceduralist arguments. process build empirical evidence claim some amount non-systems-based framing required in order arguments made by procedural rhetorics to sensible players. tools have assembled can applied generators more broadly; allowed invent which go beyond merely formally “good” subjectively “fun.”