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SEDA 2018: Proceedings of 6th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications pp 44–54Cite as

Procedural Generation for Tabletop Games: User Driven Approaches with Restrictions on Computational Resources

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Procedural Content Generation has a focus on the development of digital games, this leaves out a number of interesting domains for a generation of wargames and other board game types. These games are based on limited computational resources, using dice for random numbers and creations via tables. This paper presents a historical look at non-digital methods for PCG application and in particular a taxonomy of methods and locations of their use.

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    There is a long historical precedence of wives being upset with their wargaming husbands. Catherine the Great of Russia, born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, led a coup d’etat brought about by Peter III’s neglect. His predilection to spend his time enjoy wargaming, as opposed to running a nation state. She writes in her autobiography, “the main plaything of the Grand Duke, when in town, was an excessive quantity of small puppets, of soldiers made of wood, lead, starch and wax, which he arrayed on very narrow tables that filled the entire room; one could hardly pass between those tables. He had nailed long strips of brass along the lengths of these tables; these bands had wires attached to them, and when one pulled these, the brass strips made a sound which, according to him, was akin to the rolling fire of muskets.” [6].

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  1. Artificial Intelligence in Games Development Lab, Innopolis University, Innopolis, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia

    Joseph Alexander Brown

  2. Mærsk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Marco Scirea

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  1. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Paolo Ciancarini

  2. Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia

    Manuel Mazzara

  3. Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia

    Angelo Messina

  4. Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia

    Alberto Sillitti

  5. Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia

    Giancarlo Succi

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Brown, J.A., Scirea, M. (2020). Procedural Generation for Tabletop Games: User Driven Approaches with Restrictions on Computational Resources. In: Ciancarini, P., Mazzara, M., Messina, A., Sillitti, A., Succi, G. (eds) Proceedings of 6th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications. SEDA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 925. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14687-0_5

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