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Scheherazade’s Tavern: A Prototype For Deeper NPC Interactions

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Rehaf Aljammaz,

Elizabeth Oliver,

Michael MateasAuthors Info & Claims

FDG '20: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

Article No.: 22, Pages 1 - 9

https://doi.org/10.1145/3402942.3402984

Published: 17 September 2020 Publication History

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In many games, NPC-player interactions play a vital role in gameplay. Previous literature has successfully shown how NPC interaction focused on social simulation is an effective means for creating dynamic characters such as in the games Prom Week and Versu. We believe that social simulation is a key element in the creation of complex characters, which is further aided by natural language interaction and knowledge modeling. In this work, we propose an architecture for player-NPC interactions built on top of the Ensemble engine that additionally incorporates chatbots and knowledge modeling technology, with the objective of making craftable and interesting NPCs more easily authorable.

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FDG '20: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

September 2020

804 pages

ISBN:9781450388078

DOI:10.1145/3402942

Editors:
Georgios N. Yannakakis
University of Malta
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Antonios Liapis
University of Malta
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Penny Kyburz
Australian National University
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Vanessa Volz
Modl.AI
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Foaad Khosmood
California Polytechnic State University
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Phil Lopes
École Polytechnique Fédèrale de Lausanne

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