Honest limitation of an evolutionary Zelda generator: high fitness ≠ visual diversity

Amidos2006 · x · 2026-09-09

The author honestly notes that high fitness doesn't equal visual diversity: their Zelda generator learned to clear the room by shuffling key/door/player placement — great by shortest-path diversity metrics, boring to look at. Quality-diversity search is the fix they'd reach for next.

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