The Pest Control Game
The Pest Control Game is a public good game that can be used to study participants collaborative behavior in the context of a social dilemma with risk assymetry.
The Pest Control Game is a public good game that can be used to study participants collaborative behavior in the context of a social dilemma with risk assymetry. In the Pest Control Game, five players situated in a 2-dimensional grid attempt to gather as many coins as possible while preventing their farm from being infested by the spreading pest.
The Pest Control Game (developed in Unity) is a public good game that can be used to study participants collaborative behavior in the context of a social dilemma with risk assymetry. In the Pest Control Game, five players situated in a 2-dimensional grid attempt to gather as many coins as possible while preventing their farm from being infested by the spreading pest.
This game proposes a benchmark for studying social dilemma. Each player of the game can be configured to be either human-controlled or scripted.
The Pest Control Game has been successfully used in the AAMAS Paper:
Jennifer Renoux, Filipa Correia, Joana Campos, Lucas Morillo-Mendez, Neziha Akalin, Fernando P. Santos, and Ana Paiva. 2025. The Effect of Agent-Based Feedback on Prosociality in Social Dilemmas. In Proc. of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2025), Detroit, Michigan, USA, May 19 – 23, 2025, IFAAMAS,
A playable demo is available at
https://jrenoux.github.io/pestcontrolgame/demo/
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