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Building a Dynamic Social Community with Non Playable Characters Justin PERRIE Ling LI Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Vol.E97-D No.8 pp.1965-1973 Publication Date: 2014/08/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1361 DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E97.D.1965 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Cyberworlds) Category: Social Networks Keyword: Intelligent NPCs, Gossip Virtual Social Networks, social-psychological rules, Full Text: PDF(1.1MB)>>
Summary: A challenge faced by the video game industry is to develop believable and more intelligent Non-Playable Characters (NPCs). To tackle this problem a low-cost and simple approach has been proposed in this research, which is the development of a gossip virtual social network for NPCs. The network allows simple individual NPCs to communicate their knowledge amongst themselves. The communication within this social network is governed by social-psychological rules. These rules are categorized into four types: Contact, whether the NPC are within a contactable range of each other; Observation, whether the NPCs actually want to talk to each other based on their personal traits; Status, the current representation of the NPCs; and Relationships which determines the long term ties of the NPCs. Evaluations of the proposed gossip virtual social network was conducted, both through statistical analysis and a survey of real users. Highly satisfactory results have been achieved. | ||||||||||
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