Generative Design in Minecraft (GDMC), Settlement Generation Competition

TL;DR

This paper presents a competition for AI agents to generate realistic and appealing settlements in Minecraft, aiming to advance procedural content generation and address challenges in adaptive, holistic design.

Contribution

It introduces the first Minecraft settlement generation competition, focusing on advancing AI-driven procedural content generation for complex, believable environments.

Findings

Defined technical challenge and rules of the competition

Identified key scientific challenges in adaptive and holistic PCG

Established a benchmark for future AI settlement generation methods

Abstract

This paper introduces the settlement generation competition for Minecraft, the first part of the Generative Design in Minecraft challenge. The settlement generation competition is about creating Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents that can produce functional, aesthetically appealing and believable settlements adapted to a given Minecraft map - ideally at a level that can compete with human created designs. The aim of the competition is to advance procedural content generation for games, especially in overcoming the challenges of adaptive and holistic PCG. The paper introduces the technical details of the challenge, but mostly focuses on what challenges this competition provides and why they are scientifically relevant.