Modeling Morality-Based Argumentation for Believable Game Characters: A Design Postmortem
Rehaf AlJammaz,
Michael Mateas,
Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Abstract:An ability to morally reason is crucial to the believability of
many fictional characters, from Jane Austen’s heroines to the
denizens of The Good Place. These works often foreground
the complexity of moral questions and the circumstances un-
der which different forms of behavior might be justified.
Morality is also foregrounded in many games, from Black and
White to Mass Effect 3. Yet, most in-game characters judge
other characters (or the player) based on a single reputation
scale or binary values of right a… Show more
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