Lode Runner and Mega Man GAN Levels

This release incorporates all of the work done by my SCOPE 2020 research students, which will serve as the foundation for publications to be released in 2021. The GAN-based approach to game level generation that has already proven successful in Mario and Zelda is extended in this release to generate levels for the games Lode Runner and Mega Man. The Lode Runner levels can be played using packaged source code from here. The Mega Man levels can be played using the third-party program Mega Man Maker.

This release also adds a new approach for using a GAN to generate game levels: CPPNThenDirect2GAN. This approach is a hybrid of the Direct2GAN and CPPN2GAN approaches described previously in this publication. Also, as was done for Mario and Zelda in this publication, this release includes the ability to interactively evolve levels for Lode Runner and Mega Man.