TY - JOUR
T1 - CECILIA: A Toolkit for Visual Game Content Exploration and Modification
AU - Fleck, Philipp
AU - Hochörtler, Michael
AU - Kastl, David
AU - Gotschier, Georg
AU - Pirker, Johanna
AU - Schmalstieg, Dieter
PY - 2025/1/13
Y1 - 2025/1/13
N2 - We investigate the idea of a toolkit for visually exploring and modifying game content, addressing questions such as how to identify relevant in-game data, how to make use of the data to create in-game visual representations, and what benefits these representations have. To that aim, we build a toolkit on top of the .NET platform employed by Unity in order to explore and add custom content without access to the game's source code. Our visual modifications use live objects in the game as data sources. The results appear as an integral part of the game world, which is generated with the original Unity rendering engine. This capability enables visual exploration for debugging, playtesting, modding, streaming, and data-driven analysis of games, as we demonstrate with several examples.
AB - We investigate the idea of a toolkit for visually exploring and modifying game content, addressing questions such as how to identify relevant in-game data, how to make use of the data to create in-game visual representations, and what benefits these representations have. To that aim, we build a toolkit on top of the .NET platform employed by Unity in order to explore and add custom content without access to the game's source code. Our visual modifications use live objects in the game as data sources. The results appear as an integral part of the game world, which is generated with the original Unity rendering engine. This capability enables visual exploration for debugging, playtesting, modding, streaming, and data-driven analysis of games, as we demonstrate with several examples.
KW - Content exploration
KW - Modifications
KW - Accessibility
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85215609837&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TG.2025.3528513
DO - 10.1109/TG.2025.3528513
M3 - Article
SN - 2475-1502
JO - IEEE Transactions on Games
JF - IEEE Transactions on Games
ER -