General Video Game Playing (GVGP) aims at designing an agent that is capable of playing multiple video games with no human intervention. In 2014, The General Video Game AI (GVGAI) competition framework was created and released with the purpose of providing researchers a common open-source and easy to use platform for testing their AI methods with potentially infinity of games created using Video Game Description Language (VGDL). The framework has been expanded into several tracks during the last few years to meet the demand of different research directions. The agents are required either to play multiple unknown games with or without access to game simulations, or to design new game levels or rules. This survey paper presents the VGDL, the GVGAI framework, existing tracks, and reviews the wide use of GVGAI framework in research, education and competitions five years after its birth. A future plan of framework improvements is also described.
Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1802.10363
URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8664126
Github: https://github.com/GAIGResearch/GVGAI
DOI:10.1109/TG.2019.2901021
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@article{perez2019gvgaisurvey, author= {Diego Perez-Liebana and Jialin Liu and Ahmed Khalifa and Raluca D. Gaina and Julian Togelius and Simon M. Lucas}, title= {{General Video Game AI: a Multi-Track Framework for Evaluating Agents Games and Content Generation Algorithms}}, year= {2019}, journal= {{IEEE Transactions on Games}}, month= {Sep}, volume= {11}, number= {3}, pages= {195-214}, keywords= {Games;Sprites (computer);Artificial intelligence;Planning;Benchmark testing;Education;Computational intelligence;artificial intelligence;games;general video game playing;GVGAI;video game description language}, url= {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8664126}, doi= {10.1109/TG.2019.2901021}, abstract= {General Video Game Playing (GVGP) aims at designing an agent that is capable of playing multiple video games with no human intervention. In 2014, The General Video Game AI (GVGAI) competition framework was created and released with the purpose of providing researchers a common open-source and easy to use platform for testing their AI methods with potentially infinity of games created using Video Game Description Language (VGDL). The framework has been expanded into several tracks during the last few years to meet the demand of different research directions. The agents are required either to play multiple unknown games with or without access to game simulations, or to design new game levels or rules. This survey paper presents the VGDL, the GVGAI framework, existing tracks, and reviews the wide use of GVGAI framework in research, education and competitions five years after its birth. A future plan of framework improvements is also described.},
}