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

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 evel 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. Non-Player Character Behaviors A computer role-playing game (CRPG) is an interactive story where the game player controls an avatar called a player character (PC). A major determinant for the success of an interactive story is...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: AAAI
• Authors: Maria Cutumisu, Duane Szafron, Jonathan Schaeffer, Kevin Waugh, Curtis Onuczko, Jeff Siegel, Allan Schumacher
• Keywords: AAAI 2006, Ambient Behaviors, Character Behaviors, Intelligent Agents, Non-player Characters