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A Quick Method for Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment of a Computer Player in Computer Games

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Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC 2015)

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Games are boring when they are too easy and frustrating when they are too hard. A game in which the challenge level matches the skill of the human player has the greatest entertainment value. In this paper a simple and fast method for adjusting a difficulty level of a computer opponent is introduced. An empirical investigation of the method when playing a FPS game is conducted. Different kinds of players are analyzed. The results show that proposed method matches the difficulty level of an opponent to a player’s skill level even without full information about player’s abilities.

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  1. Institute of Informatics, The Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    Ewa Lach

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  1. Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, Poland

    Leszek Rutkowski

  2. Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, Poland

    Marcin Korytkowski

  3. Czestochova Univ of Technology, Częstochova, Poland

    Rafal Scherer

  4. AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland

    Ryszard Tadeusiewicz

  5. University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

    Lotfi A. Zadeh

  6. Louisville, Kentucky, USA

    Jacek M. Zurada

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Lach, E. (2015). A Quick Method for Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment of a Computer Player in Computer Games. In: Rutkowski, L., Korytkowski, M., Scherer, R., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zadeh, L., Zurada, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. ICAISC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9120. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19369-4_59

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