The A-Maze-D Advanced Maze Development System for Fast Game Design and Implementation

The medium of computer and video games are being studied profusely in a wide array of research. Constraint databases and video games have been around for a long time, but they have never been combined together before. In this paper, we describe the A-Maze-D system, which shows that constraint databases can be applied conveniently and efficiently to the design of maze games. A-Maze-D provides a versatile set of features by the combination of MATLAB scripts and the MLPQ constraint database system. A-Maze-D enables an efficient implementation of many complex features existing in games such as collision and hindering vision. A-Maze-D is the first system that uses constraint databases to build maze games and opens new ideas in video game development.