Since its inception, the researchers have developed algorithms for procedural content generation (PCG) and implemented a visual interface for use by game developers and players without requiring additional coding.Īraya’s (L) Kai Arulkumaran and (M) Roberto Gallotta, and Barnard College’s (R) Lisa Soros.

Kai Arulkumaran of Araya and supported by the GoodAI Grants Program, the project was initiated in late 2021 to pursue research in the fields of evolutionary computation and computational creativity, with the goal of making an application for human-machine collaborative design.

A research project to develop novel EAs, with an experimental application for in-game content generation, has resulted in an open-source AI Spaceship Generator, due for release on October 27. Įvolution serves as inspiration for a subset of AI programs known as evolutionary algorithms (EA), which, like their biological counterpart, have the potential to continually generate new entities.

The application and source code can be downloaded here.

A result of grant work from researchers at Araya, it runs on a hybrid evolutionary algorithm paired with human interaction.

A standalone application has been developed for use in the game Space Engineers.

Visualization of a spaceship-in-the-making.

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