{"title":"Cooperating in Video Games? Impossible! Undecidability of Team Multiplayer Games","authors":"Michael J. Coulombe, J. Lynch","doi":"10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2018.14","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We show the undecidability of whether a team has a forced win in a number of well known video games including: Team Fortress 2, Super Smash Brothers: Brawl, and Mario Kart. To do so, we give a simplification of the Team Computation Game from Hearn and Demaine's “Games, Puzzles, and Computation” [7] , and use that to give an undecidable abstract game on graphs. This graph game framework better captures the geometry and common constraints in many games and is thus a powerful tool for showing their computational complexity.","PeriodicalId":293763,"journal":{"name":"Fun with Algorithms","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Fun with Algorithms","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2018.14","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract We show the undecidability of whether a team has a forced win in a number of well known video games including: Team Fortress 2, Super Smash Brothers: Brawl, and Mario Kart. To do so, we give a simplification of the Team Computation Game from Hearn and Demaine's “Games, Puzzles, and Computation” [7] , and use that to give an undecidable abstract game on graphs. This graph game framework better captures the geometry and common constraints in many games and is thus a powerful tool for showing their computational complexity.