Dialogue management for social game characters using statecharts

Brusk, Jenny

doi:10.1145/1501750.1501801

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“…These dialog lines are usually a pre-scripted set of lines that are played to players in certain events. While several studies examined the possibility of generating dialog by using natural language genera-tion (Brusk et al 2007;Kacmarcik 2006), the literature lacks studies that investigate the association between the nature of information conveyed in the dialog and NPC behavior and how these two factors affect the game experience.…”

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Investigating the Influence of Behaviors and Dialogs on Player Enjoyment in Stealth Games

Al Enezi,

Verbrugge

2023

AIIDE

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The player's perception of AI behavior significantly influences their overall game experience. This perception is shaped by both interactive encounters and careful observations, particularly in genres like stealth, where gameplay revolves around planning strategies based on AI enemy movement. This paper aims to derive general insights into the player experience concerning two crucial gameplay elements that impact the perception of NPC intelligence. The first element pertains to the actual behavior of opponent NPCs, while the second focuses on the dialogues employed to highlight NPC decision-making. We conducted a user study to assess whether players can discern between complex and simple NPC behavior during gameplay in a specific scenario of a top-down stealth game prototype. We introduced variations in spoken dialogs to determine their effect on player perception. In the end, our findings revealed that when simple dialogs were used, players derived greater enjoyment from a more complex AI behavior. However, using contextual dialog allowed a simple behavior to match a complex behavior in player enjoyment.

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Investigating the Influence of Behaviors and Dialogs on Player Enjoyment in Stealth Games

Al Enezi,

Verbrugge

2023

AIIDE

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“…It caches alterative text in a local database and can add new labels seamlessly after a web page is downloaded, resulting in minimal impact to the browsing experience. In [11], it aims to provide the characters with social skills, including the ability to interact using natural language. In a social-personal information management (SPIM) system [34], it explored the idea of tagging people for selective information sharing.…”

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A Survey of Human Computation Systems

Yuen

Chen

King

2009

2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering

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Abstract-Human computation is a technique that makes use of human abilities for computation to solve problems. The human computation problems are the problems those computers are not good at solving but are trivial for humans. In this paper, we give a survey of various human computation systems which are categorized into initiatory human computation, distributed human computation and social game-based human computation with volunteers, paid engineers and online players. For the existing large number of social games, some previous works defined various types of social games, but the recent developed social games cannot be categorized based on the previous works. In this paper, we define the categories and the characteristics of social games which are suitable for all existing ones. Besides, we present a survey on the performance aspects of human computation system. This paper gives a better understanding on human computation system.

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“…Interestingly, statecharts have recently been taken up by game programmers, who use this formalism to specify patterns of discourse and behavior for computer game characters (Brusk, 2008). Within the present conceptual framework, this is an entirely expected turn.…”

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On Look-Ahead in Language: Navigating a Multitude of Familiar Paths

Edelman¹

2011

Predictions in the Brain

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Dialogue management for social game characters using statecharts

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Investigating the Influence of Behaviors and Dialogs on Player Enjoyment in Stealth Games

Investigating the Influence of Behaviors and Dialogs on Player Enjoyment in Stealth Games

A Survey of Human Computation Systems

On Look-Ahead in Language: Navigating a Multitude of Familiar Paths

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