Broad research goal:

Develop graph-theoretic or other automated metrics that can be applied to
Metroidvania maps which will correlate with dimensions of player
experience.


Approaches:

- POMDPs for simulating player exploration patterns, trained on
  exploration traces?
- Non-simulation based graph metrics?


Future work:

- Supports Metroidvania PCG
- Test dimensions of player experience using principled PCG...


Project

- Journal/map some portion of a few different Metroidvania games.
- Compare the experiences of play while noting configurations of the
  graphs that underlie those experiences.

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