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Gaming is a hard job, but someone has to do it!

Article by Viglietta, Giovanni
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We establish some general schemes relating the computational complexity of a video game to the presence of certain common elements or mechanics, such as destroyable paths, collecting items, doors activated by switches or pressure plates, etc.. Then we apply such "metatheorems" to several video games published between 1980 and 1998, including Pac-Man, Tron, Lode Runner, Boulder Dash, Deflektor, Mindbender, Pipe Mania, Skweek, Prince of Persia, Lemmings, Doom, Puzzle Bobble 3, and Starcraft. We obtain both new results, and improvements or alternative proofs of previously known results.

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Viglietta2012
type
article
date_added
2012-01-27
date_published
2012-01-01
arxivId
1201.4995
keywords
Computational Complexity,Computer Science and Game Theory
pages
12

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@article{Viglietta2012,
	key = {Viglietta2012},
	type = {article},
	title = {Gaming is a hard job, but someone has to do it!},
	author = {Viglietta, Giovanni},
	abstract = {We establish some general schemes relating the computational complexity of a video game to the presence of certain common elements or mechanics, such as destroyable paths, collecting items, doors activated by switches or pressure plates, etc.. Then we apply such "metatheorems" to several video games published between 1980 and 1998, including Pac-Man, Tron, Lode Runner, Boulder Dash, Deflektor, Mindbender, Pipe Mania, Skweek, Prince of Persia, Lemmings, Doom, Puzzle Bobble 3, and Starcraft. We obtain both new results, and improvements or alternative proofs of previously known results.},
	comment = {},
	date_added = {2012-01-27},
	date_published = {2012-01-01},
	urls = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4995,http://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.4995v5},
	collections = {Basically computer science,Games to play with friends,Computational complexity of games},
	archivePrefix = {arXiv},
	arxivId = {1201.4995},
	eprint = {1201.4995},
	keywords = {Computational Complexity,Computer Science and Game Theory},
	month = {jan},
	pages = 12,
	url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4995 http://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.4995v5},
	year = 2012,
	primaryClass = {cs.CC},
	urldate = {2012-01-27}
}