Generating Ambient Behaviors in Computer Role-Playing Games Export

@article{citeulike:3466751, abstract = {Many computer games use custom scripts to control the ambient behaviors of nonplayer characters. As a result, story authors must write computer code for the game world's hundreds or thousands of NPCs. Creating entertaining, nonrepetitive NPC behaviors without investing substantial programming effort to write customized, nontrivial scripts is challenging. Current computer games have simplistic ambient behaviors for NPCs; it's rare for such characters to interact with each other. To address this, we developed a model that uses generative behavior patterns, which let authors quickly and reliably generate realistic and entertaining NPC scripts. The approach has proven successful, even in the challenging area of creating interactions between NPCs. This article is part of a special issue on interactive entertainment.}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, author = {Cutumisu, Maria and Szafron, Duane and Schaeffer, Jonathan and Mcnaughton, Matthew and Roy, Thomas and Onuczko, Curtis and Carbonaro, Mike}, citeulike-article-id = {3466751}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIS.2006.92}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2006.92}, doi = {10.1109/MIS.2006.92}, issn = {1541-1672}, journal = {IEEE Intelligent Systems}, keywords = {quest\_generation, quests}, number = {5}, pages = {19--27}, posted-at = {2008-10-30 20:16:43}, priority = {5}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, title = {Generating Ambient Behaviors in Computer Role-Playing Games}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2006.92}, volume = {21}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3466751 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3466751 N2 - Many computer games use custom scripts to control the ambient behaviors of nonplayer characters. As a result, story authors must write computer code for the game world's hundreds or thousands of NPCs. Creating entertaining, nonrepetitive NPC behaviors without investing substantial programming effort to write customized, nontrivial scripts is challenging. Current computer games have simplistic ambient behaviors for NPCs; it's rare for such characters to interact with each other. To address this, we developed a model that uses generative behavior patterns, which let authors quickly and reliably generate realistic and entertaining NPC scripts. The approach has proven successful, even in the challenging area of creating interactions between NPCs. This article is part of a special issue on interactive entertainment. IS - 5 JF - IEEE Intelligent Systems SN - 1541-1672 AD - Los Alamitos, CA, USA EP - 27 TI - Generating Ambient Behaviors in Computer Role-Playing Games PB - IEEE Computer Society VL - 21 SP - 19 KW - quest_generation KW - quests AU - Cutumisu, Maria AU - Szafron, Duane AU - Schaeffer, Jonathan AU - Mcnaughton, Matthew AU - Roy, Thomas AU - Onuczko, Curtis AU - Carbonaro, Mike PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2006.92 ER -