Modelling Player Combat Behaviour for Dynamic Difficulty Scaling in First Person Shooter Games

Paul Williamson; Christopher Tubb

Modelling Player Combat Behaviour for Dynamic Difficulty Scaling in First Person Shooter Games

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

Abstract

Non-Player Character (NPC) are a core aspect of a modern video game, they fulfil a wide range of roles and feature in most genres. How they are perceived can have an impact on the overall enjoyment of the game, and when the NPCs are poorly modelled, the experience can be negative. This paper explores modelling human player behaviour to develop a combat model for NPCs, which will provide a dynamic solution for skill scaling. Game difficulty is a subjective notion and when games have predefined classification, being able to satisfy all players is not realistic. This paper investigates if the combat model can therefore be used to scale the difficulty of the NPC during in real-time, by dynamically adjusting a skill attribute, which is used by several key combat behaviours.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SIMUL 2022, The Fourteenth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation
Publisher	International Academy, Research, and Industry Association
Pages	22-28
ISBN (Print)	978-1-68558-001-8
Publication status	Published - 16 Oct 2022
Event	The Fourteenth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL 2022) - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 16 Oct 2022 → 20 Oct 2022 Conference number: 14th

Publication series

Name
ISSN (Electronic)	2308-4537

Conference

Conference	The Fourteenth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL 2022)
Abbreviated title	SIMUL 2022
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lisbon
Period	16/10/22 → 20/10/22

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https://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=simul_2022_1_40_50019

Cite this

Williamson, P., & Tubb, C. (2022). Modelling Player Combat Behaviour for Dynamic Difficulty Scaling in First Person Shooter Games. In SIMUL 2022, The Fourteenth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (pp. 22-28). International Academy, Research, and Industry Association. https://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=simul_2022_1_40_50019

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Williamson, P & Tubb, C 2022, Modelling Player Combat Behaviour for Dynamic Difficulty Scaling in First Person Shooter Games. in SIMUL 2022, The Fourteenth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation. International Academy, Research, and Industry Association, pp. 22-28, The Fourteenth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL 2022), Lisbon, Portugal, 16/10/22. <https://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=simul_2022_1_40_50019>

Modelling Player Combat Behaviour for Dynamic Difficulty Scaling in First Person Shooter Games. / Williamson, Paul; Tubb, Christopher.

SIMUL 2022, The Fourteenth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation. International Academy, Research, and Industry Association, 2022. p. 22-28.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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