{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/pcg-based-game-design-patterns","title":"PCG-Based Game Design Patterns","arxiv_id":"1610.03138","date":"2016-10-11","proceeding":null,"authors":["Michael Cook","Mirjam Eladhari","Andy Nealen","Mike Treanor","Eddy Boxerman","Alex Jaffe","Paul Sottosanti","Steve Swink"],"abstract":"People enjoy encounters with generative software, but rarely are they\nencouraged to interact with, understand or engage with it. In this paper we\ndefine the term 'PCG-based game', and explain how this concept follows on from\nthe idea of an AI-based game. We look at existing examples of games which\nforeground their AI, put forward a methodology for designing PCG-based games,\ndescribe some example case study designs for PCG-based games, and describe\nlessons learned during this process of sketching and developing ideas.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03138v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.03138v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"pcg-based-game-design-patterns","repo_url":"https://github.com/MindSpore-scientific/code-11/tree/main/PCGrad-mindspore-example","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"mindspore","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"game-design","task_name":"Game Design"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}