Simplificando o balanceamento de atributos em RPGs eletrônicos

Abstract

The creation of RPG games requires several steps that are related to your systems. In the combat system, defining the skills of the characters is an important task and one that often involves manual balancing by the game designer. In this work, an automatic balancing process for character attributes in RPG games is proposed to simplify the character creation process and optimize the time used in balancing. To achieve these results, a genetic algorithm is used to identify the parameters of a player's growth curve so that he can reach a predetermined victory rate against an enemy previously created by the game designer. The proposed balancing tool was able to generate character attributes for each level within the defined error range. Then, the initial contour lines were generated, which are smoothed to generate the final curves. An experimental evaluation used ten levels of an enemy with a desired victory rate of 80% and a margin of error of 5%. These results suggest that the use of the genetic algorithm was effective in the generation of contour lines, being suitable as an automatic balancing process to assist the game designer.