RAPID: Rebellion Adaptive Procedural technology for Intelligent game Development

RAPID是一个为期24个月的项目，旨在开发一个原型工具包，通过应用自动和半自动内容生成和性能定制的程序方法来协助、改进和加速视频游戏的开发。该工具包将包含一些组件，以帮助设计和填充高质量游戏的世界；自动为手机游戏生成新的关卡和游戏性；自动创建不可能或无法实现的设计；以及自动将环境几何复杂性与平台容量和带宽相匹配的工具。视频游戏行业正处于十字路口。在高端市场，开发和营销AAA级游戏的成本可以与电影大片相媲美。另一方面，低端的免费手机游戏已经变得非常受欢迎，但创造一个新的水平来保持玩家的参与度是非常困难的，开发商很难赚钱。英国电影公司在市场的两端都受到挤压。RAPID将产生用于程序内容开发的新算法，游戏交付和游戏的新程序方法，一个模块化的程序软件工具包(以支持Rebelion创建AAA和手机游戏，以及其他公司的游戏和游戏程序开发服务，包括微工作室)。我们计划提供免费的基本自动服务和付费服务，Rebelion将通过完整的程序引擎和工具包运行开发人员的计划，以提供详细的移动游戏级别或高质量环境。Rebelion是欧洲领先的游戏开发商和发行商之一。它是众多热门游戏(包括《狙击手精英V2》、《狙击手精英：僵尸军》、《外星人大战掠食者》、《辛普森一家》和《星球大战：叛变中队》)背后的工作室，是漫画和书籍的成功出版商，也是跨平台娱乐媒体的制作人。

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.