\documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{ulem} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usetheme{metropolis} \title[CE810 GD2]{CE810 - Game Design 2} \subtitle{\textbf{Lab} - Searchable Design Spaces} \date{Monday (PM), 14 May 2018} \author{Joseph Walton-Rivers \& Piers Williams} \institute{Univeristy of Essex} \newcommand{\keyterm}[1] {\textbf{\alert{#1}}} \newcommand{\gametitle}[1] {\textit{#1}} %\usepackage{beamer} \begin{document} \begin{frame} \titlepage \end{frame} \section{Intro} \begin{frame}{Design Spaces} \begin{itemize} \item In this morning's session we talked about \keyterm{Game Parameters} \item These are properties which help to define the game \item These are often \textbf{dependant} on one another. \end{itemize} \end{frame} \section{Flappy Bird} \begin{frame}{Exercise: Game Parameters} \begin{block}{Question} What game parameters are there for \gametitle{Flappy Bird}? \end{block} \begin{center} \includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{images/game_new} \end{center} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Exercise: Game Parameters} \begin{figure} \includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{images/flappy_params} \caption{paramters by Isaksen et al @ NYU} \end{figure} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Flappy Birds} \begin{block}{Activity} Go to the \href{http://game.engineering.nyu.edu/projects/exploring-game-space/}{\gametitle{Flappy Bird} demo} and change the sliders.\\ How does changing the parameters affect the gameplay? \end{block} \url{http://game.engineering.nyu.edu/projects/exploring-game-space/} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{How does this relate to us?} Isaksen et al basically did the following: \begin{enumerate} \item Select parameters \item Repeat $N$ times \begin{enumerate} \item Generate games \item Evaluate games \item Record results \end{enumerate} \item Analyze results \item Output result \end{enumerate} This is how we're going to think about tuning our own game parameters. \end{frame} \begin{frame}{The Role of AI} \begin{description} \item[Problem] Doing evaluations is time consuming \item[Solution] Make AIs that play them \end{description} \end{frame} \section{Asteroids} \begin{frame}{Asteroids} \begin{itemize} \item Now we're going to play with the parameters \end{itemize} \end{frame} \end{document}