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Growing a Puzzle Garden: Exploring Casual and Serious Features in a Mixed-Initative Logic Puzzle Authoring Tool

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In this project, we introduce Puzzle Garden, a mixed-initiative tool for authoring logic grid puzzles. We present Puzzle Garden as a test bed for exploring how the inclusion of casual components can impact the design and use of creative support tools. The ``casual'' components of Puzzle Garden are inspired by the design principles of casual creators, while ``serious'' components give users fine grain control over the end product. We investigate how this tool can be used to study how users interact with serious and casual elements in authoring tools, through a preliminary user study lasting three weeks. Through the outcomes of this study we compiled a list of suggestions for how researchers can approach similar study designs.

Source: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment

DOI: 10.1609/aiide.v21i1.36836

Authors: Fiona Shyne, Kaylah Facey, Seth Cooper

Institution: Northeastern University

Language: English

Topic: Artificial Intelligence in Games

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4416013691

FWCI: 0.713

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Cited by: 2

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