Ben Berman - Machine Learning and Level Generation

Ben Berman talks about level generation using machine learning.
This video is from the 2017 Roguelike Celebration: roguelike.club/event2017.html

[@St4lis]

Interesting. However, Brick Block (the house building toy shown at 9:05) does not use WFC. It uses a variant of Marching Cubes, which you really couldn't call machine learning.

[@programming3218]

Yo it's the Townscaper guy!

[@Sweetgrass2009]

I mixed up some demos of yours, my apologies! Brick Block is erroneously referenced here as an example of WFC, though it was still very influential especially to me. Instead take a look at these talks by the commenter @St4lis here for a discussion on WFC in games: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpPGi5VjiNihqKM and kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6nIoGyZYrWLY9k which are like master classes in the application of this technique.

[@Galakyllz]

Great talk. I appreciate the breadth of examples.

[@sakules]

one of the best talks!

[@Darleer]

excellent

[@Lightning_Lance]

10:30 woah, this is insanely good! So cool!

[@Clay300]

Do people understand how exciting yet frightening this stuff is?

[@EnthusedDragon]

Where can I find the academic paper he references?

[@abuzreq]

I think this: Super Mario as a String: Platformer Level Generation Via LSTMs

[@andrewherrera7735]

people don't have tutorials on how to do this. why? probably the same reason that gameplay can't be as good as cutscene graphics.

[@ausiaso]

Nice talk, but the description of Natural Language Processing as something that needs little data and that can be specified by a grammar and tens of examples is horribly inaccurate. I've been working professionally on that field for almost 20 years, and it hasn't been that way since the 1980s.

[@Sweetgrass2009]

Yes, this is true. In that slide, Natural Language Processing was incorrectly placed in the lower left corner. Anyone practicing what they would call Natural Language Processing today is doing something in the upper right corner, like most other kinds of machine learning. A more appropriate label for the lower left corner "Linguistics in the 60s and Computer Implementations of those Ideas."

[@jddeats]

The Binding of Isaac is all handbuilt rooms as far as I know, with some rocks and enemies randomized for variants. I would be interested in being proven wrong.

[@volpo5046]

Yea, I believe he was using binding's room as an example of what hand crafted content looks like