Adaptive Shooter

This shoot'em up prototype was implemented as part of my Master in Computer Science dissertation. It uses a perceptron to observe player performance in the game and adapt enemy behavior accordingly.

We measured the effectiveness of the adaptive process applying the CEGE questionnaire post-game, with a control group playing a non-adaptive version of the game.

Results show that players that identified themselves as hardcore gamers enjoyed the adaptive version more than players that identified themselves as softcore gamers or non-gamers.

Controls

[Keyboard]
Arrows - Move
Z - Shoot

[Gamepad]
Analog stick - Move
X, Y, or Button 2 - Shoot

[Player model control]
y, h - Alter ACCURACY (up, down)
u, j - Alter LIVES_VARIATION (up, down)
i, k - Alter ENEMIES_WASTED_WAVE (up, down)
o, l - Alter ENEMIES_WASTED_TOTAL (up, down)

Publications

Published paper (EN-US): http://www.sbgames.org/sbgames2013/proceedings/comp/26-full-paper.pdf
MSc. dissertation (PT-BR): http://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.21362
Github: https://github.com/killerasus/adaptive_shooter

Acknowledgements

• ClanLib 3.0-stable - Copyright (c) 1997-2005 The ClanLib Team
• Lua 5.1.4 - Copyright 1994–2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio.
• SpriteLib - Copyright 1996-2011 by Ari Feldman Widget Worx.
• ArWing original design by Nintendo, art by StepDragon.
• Some of the sounds in this project were created by David McKee (ViRiX).
• Sounds (c) by Michel Baradari. Licensed under CC BY 3.0. Hosted on opengameart.org.
• Digital Memories by LukHash. Available at (http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/777892/digital-memories). Licensed under CC BY NC SA.