Proposing an Automatic System for Generating Super Mario Bros Datasets

• Matheus Prado Prandini Faria UFU
• Etienne Silva Julia UFU
• Rodrigo Zamboni Silva UFU
• Marcelo Zanchetta do Nascimento UFU
• Rita Maria Silva Julia UFU

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbgames_estendido.2022.226167

Resumo

Video games have become a critical part of the entertainment industry. In addition to being designed for fun, games can also be used in education, health, and many other areas. For example, some methods from the Procedural Content Generation (PCG) approach are used to create content for Super Mario Bros (SMB) algorithmically seeking to develop personalized levels based on players’ mechanics. This work aims to provide an automatic system for generating datasets composed of game logs and video frames in the Mario AI Framework, which is expected to speed up the development and validation of PCG, player modeling/profiling, and knowledge tracing methods. This also helps in the reproducibility of research using the SMB game.

Palavras-chave: Super Mario Bros, Game Log, Dataset, Procedural Content Generation

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