Samuel Truman

Games Engineering, University of Würzburg
 https://samueltruman.com/

Samuel studied Games Engineering at the University of Würzburg and is currently working as a Research Assistant for the Games Engineering Group. He is also studying towards a Master’s degree in Computer Science. He’s part of the VIA-VR project, which aims at creating a framework for modeling and staging strongly engaging VR adventures for medical training, prevention, therapy and rehabilitation. He’s interessted in highly interactive and immersive Virtual Reality experiences, and large-scale agend based simulations.

Selected publications:

– https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3235765.3235801

– https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8864536

– https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3402942.3402994

All Sessions by Samuel Truman

  • 2. Game Technology Summit

    July 8

  • 18:15  - 18:45
    In this paper, we bridge the gap between procedural content generation (PCG) and user-generated content (UGC) by proposing and demonstrating an interactive agent-based model of self-assembling ensembles that can be directed though user input. We motivate these efforts by considering the opportunities technology provides to pursue game designs based on according game design frameworks. We present three different use cases of the proposed model that emphasize its potential to (1) self-assemble into predefined 3D graphical assets, (2) define new structures in the context of virtual environments by self-assembling layers on the surfaces of arbitrary 3D objects, and (3) allow novel structures to self-assemble only considering the model's configuration and no external dependencies. To address the performance restrictions in computer games, we realized the prototypical model implementation by means of an efficient entity component system (ECS). We conclude the paper with an outlook on future steps to further explore novel interactive, dynamic PCG mechanics and to ensure their efficiency.
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