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AIIDE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Talking with NPCs: Towards Dynamic Generation of Discourse Structures
Dialogue in commercial games is largely created by teams of writers and designers who hand-author every line of dialogue and hand-specify the dialogue structure using finite state...
Christina R. Strong, Michael Mateas
AIIDE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Integrating Story-Centric and Character-Centric Processes for Authoring Interactive Drama
Computer aided interactive drama has been widely applied for entertainment and pedagogy. Most existing approaches for authoring interactive drama use either story-centric or chara...
Mei Si, Stacy C. Marsella, Mark O. Riedl
AIIDE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Hierarchical Petri Nets for Story Plots Featuring Virtual Humans
Petri Nets can be used for a retrospective analysis of a computer game story, for representing plots in serious games as well as for monitoring the course of the story, as recentl...
Daniel Balas, Cyril Brom, Adam Abonyi, Jakub Gemro...
AIIDE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Intelligent Trading Agents for Massively Multi-player Game Economies
As massively multi-player gaming environments become more detailed, developing agents to populate these virtual worlds as capable non-player characters poses an increasingly compl...
John Reeder, Gita Sukthankar, Michael Georgiopoulo...
AIIDE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Offline Planning with Hierarchical Task Networks in Video Games
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology can have a dramatic impact on the quality of video games. AI planning techniques are useful in a wide range of game components, including m...
John Paul Kelly, Adi Botea, Sven Koenig
AIIDE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Difficulty Scaling through Incongruity
In this paper we discuss our work on using the incongruity measure from psychological literature to scale the difficulty level of a game online to the capabilities of the human pl...
Giel van Lankveld, Pieter Spronck, Matthias Rauter...
AIIDE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Integrating Drama Management into an Adventure Game
Often, video game designers must choose between creating a linear experience, and designing an open world with many different story lines that fail to form a tightly crafted narra...
Anne Sullivan, Sherol Chen, Michael Mateas
AIIDE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
An Intelligent IDE for Behavior Authoring in Real-Time Strategy Games
Behavior authoring for computer games involves writing behaviors in a programming language and then iteratively refining them by detecting issues with them. The main bottlenecks a...
Suhas Virmani, Yatin Kanetkar, Manish Mehta, Santi...
AIIDE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Learning to be a Bot: Reinforcement Learning in Shooter Games
This paper demonstrates the applicability of reinforcement learning for first person shooter bot artificial intelligence. Reinforcement learning is a machine learning technique wh...
Michelle McPartland, Marcus Gallagher