{"id":1784,"date":"2012-01-16T14:20:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T13:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2012-01-16T14:20:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T13:20:39","slug":"using-genetic-algorithms-to-playtest-an-ipad-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/16\/using-genetic-algorithms-to-playtest-an-ipad-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Genetic Algorithms to playtest an iPad game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like a &#8220;normal&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/632613697\/city-conquest\">KickStarter project for a new Tower Defence game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Halfway through the demo video, it switches to &#8220;here&#8217;s how I&#8217;ve been using GA to detect game-design flaws, and to test ideas in tweaking game design&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Something I&#8217;ve wanted to do for more than a decade, but could never find a company who&#8217;d take it seriously :). I really hope this iPad game does well &#8211; would be great to see a poster-child \/ real-world demonstration of a workable technique here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like a &#8220;normal&#8221; KickStarter project for a new Tower Defence game. Halfway through the demo video, it switches to &#8220;here&#8217;s how I&#8217;ve been using GA to detect game-design flaws, and to test ideas in tweaking game design&#8221;. Something I&#8217;ve wanted to do for more than a decade, but could never find a company who&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,51,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}