Towards a Taxonomy for the Clarification of PCG Actors' Roles.

This work proposes a novel classification system that clarifies the multiple role configurations in the context of video-game design production involving use of Procedural Content Generation (PCG) methods. Specifically, the role that designers can have, either by the direct PCG-game design or via interaction with PCG-tools, and its consequent impact on PCG's output. Towards this effect, a taxonomy is specified that synthesizes existing PCG taxonomies so that it lists all possible roles and impact that each actor - the Human Designer, the Computational Algorithm and the Human Player Can have in PCG's evaluation and generation processes.