Title :
The C2create authoring tool: Fostering creativity via game asset creation
Author :
Lopes, Phil ; Liapis, Antonios ; Yannakakis, Georgios N.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Digital Games, Univ. of Malta, Msida, Malta
Abstract :
In this paper we introduce the Crayon Co-Create (C2Create) drawing tool as a mixed-initiative design approach for fostering the creativity of young learners. C2Create follows the principles of mixed-initiative iterative design utilizing variants of novelty search for generating abstract drawings that act as a visual disruptor during the creation process. The authoring tool finds a multitude of uses both as a standalone gameful activity and, most importantly, offering abstract visual assets that can form parts of game components across various types of games that can either be shared in a social environment or played.
Keywords :
authoring systems; computer games; data visualisation; iterative methods; C2create authoring tool; abstract drawings; abstract visual asset; crayon cocreate drawing tool; game asset creation; mixed-initiative iterative design; standalone gameful activity; visual disruptor; Abstracts; Art; Computers;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG), 2014 IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dortmund
DOI :
10.1109/CIG.2014.6932916