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ScriptEase - Motivational Behaviors for Interactive Characters in Computer Role-Playing Games

Maria Cutumisu, Duane Szafron, Jonathan Schaeffer, Kevin Waugh, Curtis Onuczko, Jeff Siegel, Allan Schumacher
AAAI 2006 pp. 1935-1936
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Abstract

ScriptEase is a tool that allows authors with no programming experience to create interactive stories for computer role-playing games. Instead of writing scripting code manually, game authors select design patterns that encapsulate frequent game scenarios, creating stories at a higher level of abstraction and being shielded from the underlying scripting language. ScriptEase has been extended to support behavior patterns that generate ambient behaviors for non-player characters. This demonstration shows how ScriptEase creates intricate non-player character scripts to generate compelling and engaging character behaviors. We demonstrate our ScriptEase motivational ambient and PC-interactive behaviors for a guard character using BioWare Corp.'s Neverwinter Nights game.

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Text

Cutumisu et al. "ScriptEase - Motivational Behaviors for Interactive Characters in Computer Role-Playing Games." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2006.

Markdown

[Cutumisu et al. "ScriptEase - Motivational Behaviors for Interactive Characters in Computer Role-Playing Games." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2006.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2006/cutumisu2006aaai-scriptease/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{cutumisu2006aaai-scriptease,
  title     = {{ScriptEase - Motivational Behaviors for Interactive Characters in Computer Role-Playing Games}},
  author    = {Cutumisu, Maria and Szafron, Duane and Schaeffer, Jonathan and Waugh, Kevin and Onuczko, Curtis and Siegel, Jeff and Schumacher, Allan},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2006},
  pages     = {1935-1936},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2006/cutumisu2006aaai-scriptease/}
}