Social Story Worlds With Comme il Faut

McCoy, Joshua; Treanor, Mike; Samuel, Ben; Reed, Aaron A.; Mateas, Michael; Wardrip‐Fruin, Noah

doi:10.1109/tciaig.2014.2304692

Cited by 48 publications

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“…Prom Week serves as an interesting use case for Gamalayzer, as it is a game that defies typical genre descriptions. The designers of Prom Week have referred to Comme il Faut, 33 the AI system that underlies the game, as a ''social physics'' engine since it allows for myriad social forces to dynamically determine the behavior of the game's characters. Consequently, the game itself has been called a ''social physics puzzle game.''…”

Section: Prom Weekmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Visualizing the strategic landscape of arbitrary games

Osborn

Samuel

Mateas

2017

Information Visualization

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We present Gamalyzer, a game-independent and efficient visualization of sets of play traces. Unlike previous work on game-independent visualization, we focus on sequences of game actions as opposed to sequences of game states. Action sequences directly represent players’ strategic decisions. Moreover, since game actions may already be recorded as part of games’ telemetry and metrics, Gamalyzer is easier to integrate into existing analysis toolchains than state-sequence-based visualizations. Gamalyzer displays each play trace as a vertical line, with symbols along the line indicating game events. Similar play traces (according to the Gamalyzer metric, a specialization of edit distance) are arranged together along the horizontal axis, and as traces become more and less similar to each other over time, they bend towards and away from each other. The Gamalyzer metric is also used to present only the most interestingly different traces in the visualization, with the rest grouped together under their most similar cousins. We position Gamalyzer as an ideal trace filtering and selection tool to be used in concert with a state-centric (and possibly game-specific) visualization for context. This article also provides a detailed account of the Gamalyzer metric and new advice for defining game action schema to maximize the benefits obtained from the tool, along with two detailed case studies of the Gamalyzer visualization in practice.

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Section: Prom Weekmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finally, Figure 9 depicts two visualizations from a third campaign (Simon). The Prom Week designers have used other visualizations of Simon’s campaign in previous publications 33 to convey the expressive space of their game. As such, it is useful to visualize this data with Gamalyzer as a point of comparison and reference.…”

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Visualizing the strategic landscape of arbitrary games

Osborn

Samuel

Mateas

2017

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“…Many games attempt to do one of two things. They tell a rich story, but the overall narrative is still tightly controlled by the developers (McCoy, et al, 2014). They can also allow interactions to occur at any point in the game, but the narrative is described as limited and possessing fewconsequences (McCoy, et al, 2013).…”

Section: Prom Weekmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Comme il Faut (CiF) designed to manage the presentation of social interaction amongst characters within a game (McCoy, et al, 2014). CiF is described as an AI system that takes into account context surrounding a conversation (McCoy, et al, 2013).…”

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“…In fact, there are over 5000 rules related to social interaction and a more dynamic relationship than friends/enemies dynamic that impact the turns a conversation may take (Samuel, et al, 2016). The exchanges and social states used by Prom Week can be managed by CiF, which contains procedures that manage how they impact the social state and reports actions a given character makeswhich Prom Week interprets for the user (McCoy, et al, 2014). Because goals within the game could be attempted at anytime (McCoy, et al, 2013), Prom Week was able to bridge the gap between deep narrative and player flexibility.…”

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Generating Narrative in an Interactive Fiction Game

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This thesis explores a niche field of Computer Science called Interactive Fiction, a field that utilizes the conventions of a regular story to offer multiple variations on how the story plays out. Our goal is to explore the possibility of developing a game that can generate a story file during game play that not only reads like a short story but reflects the events that transpire during a given game play. During development, we have determined that keeping track of various "states", we can simulate a narrative based on actions that transpire in the game.

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