MultiStyle: Characterizing Multiplayer Cooperative Gameplay by Incorporating Distinct Player Playstyles in a Multi-Agent Planner

Abstract

This paper presents MultiStyle, a multi-agent centralized heuristic search planner that incorporates distinct agent playstyles to generate solution plans where characters express individual preferences while cooperating to reach a goal. We include algorithmic details, an example domain, and multiple different solution plans generated with unique agent playstyle sets. We discuss our intent to incorporate this planner in a tool for game level designers to help them anticipate and understand how teams of players with distinct playstyles may play through their levels. Ultimately, MultiStyle generates solution plans with a novel and increased expressive range by attempting to satisfy sets of action and proposition preferences for each agent.