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Cryogenic survival: Analysis and development of 'lost with frost' a 2D Python-based RPG game

2024· article· en· W4392014762 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueApplied and Computational Engineering · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicComputational Physics and Python Applications
Canadian institutionsSt. Lawrence College
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGame designComputer scienceAdventureVideo game developmentGame art designGame DeveloperAdversaryGame design documentMultimediaArtificial intelligenceComputer security

Abstract

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This paper presents "Lost with Frost," a 2D Python-based RPG game developed by a team of three. The game immerses the player in a challenging survival experience within a frigid, snowy landscape, requiring strategic resource gathering and enemy encounters. The objective is to sustain the character's health by collecting sticks to fuel a central firepit. The paper details the game's core mechanics, including resource management, survival elements, and enemy interactions. It also highlights the iterative development process, addressing challenges faced and showcasing the team's creative and technical efforts. The game's design concept evolved from brainstorming sessions, emphasizing hardcore survival and exploration in a frozen land. The gameplay is dynamic, with the addition of day-night cycles affecting visibility and immersion. Unique features like dynamic lighting, UI enhancements, and sound control further enrich the gaming experience. The paper delves into the challenges encountered during development, such as refining map generation, object distribution, and gameplay balance. The team's journey through these challenges offers valuable insights into game creation, resulting in an engaging and visually appealing RPG adventure that transports players to a frosty, perilous world.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.731
Threshold uncertainty score0.480

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.208
Teacher spread0.200 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it