RAPID: Rebellion Adaptive Procedural technology for Intelligent game Development

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RAPID is a 24 month project to develop a prototype toolkit to assist, improve and acceleratethe development of video games by the application of procedural methods for automatic andsemi-automatic content generation and performance tailoring. The toolkit will containcomponents to assist the design and population of worlds for high-quality games;automatically to generate new levels and gameplay for mobile games; automatically toprevent the creation of impossible or unrealisable designs; and tools that automatically matchthe environment geometry complexity to platform capacity and bandwidth.The video games industry is at a crossroads. At the top end of the market, the cost ofdeveloping and marketing ‘AAA’ games can match movie blockbusters. At the other end, lowcostand ‘free-to-play’ mobile games have become hugely popular, but creating the new levelsto retain player engagement is very difficult to do affordably and developers struggle to makemoney. UK studios are squeezed at both ends of the market.RAPID will result in new algorithms for procedural content development, new proceduralapproaches to game delivery and gameplay, a modular procedural software toolkit (to supportthe creation of AAA and mobile games by Rebellion, and services for the proceduraldevelopment of games and gameplay by other companies, including micro studios. We planto offer a free, basic automatic service, and a premium paid service, in which Rebellion willrun a developer’s plan through the full procedural engine and toolkit to deliver a detailedmobile games level or high quality environment.Rebellion is one of Europe’s leading games developers and publishers. It is the studio behindnumerous hit games (including Sniper Elite V2, Sniper Elite: Zombie Army, Aliens vsPredator, The Simpsons, and Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron), a successfulpublisher of comics and books, and a producer of cross-platform entertainment media.