Generating Emergent Physics for Action-Adventure Games

Action-adventure games typically integrate levels, progression with the physical gameplay. In order to generate content for this type of games, this paper explores how procedural techniques can be expanded to beyond the domain of generating levels, and into generating physical interactions. It suggests a formal graph language to represent physics and the network of causal relations between game entities. Leveraging transformational grammars, the principles of model driven architecture, and component-based architecture for the game engine, it is argued that physics diagrams are well suited to generate emergent physical gameplay.