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Creating Emotions by Characters Design for Computer Games

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Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment (Edutainment 2006)

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Abstract

Firstly, the methodology for characters development in computer games was analyzed from both aspects of art-sourced character development and story-sourced character development separately from the different views of various research fields. In the second section, four different techniques relating to character design and the creation of emotion has been deeply discussed. At the end, the four diverse designs for character OEDIPUS were given according to the plot development based on the background of tragical fable of the ancient Greece.

This paper is partially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.60403039 and Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province under Grant No.031538.

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  1. School of Communication and Design, Sun Yat-Sen University, GuangZhou, P.R. China

    F. You

  2. School of Informatics, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

    I. Palmer

  3. University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

    W. Godfrey

  4. Institute of Computer Application, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China

    Z. B. Zheng

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  1. State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, China

    Zhigeng Pan

  2. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Ruth Aylett

  3. Fraunhofer IGD, Joachim-Jungius-Strasse 11, 18059, Rostock, Germany

    Holger Diener

  4. State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, P.R. China

    Xiaogang Jin

  5. Digital Storytelling Dept, ZGDV e.V., Rundeturmstr. 10, P.O. Box, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Stefan Göbel

  6. School of Management, Shenzhen University, 518060, Shenzhen, P.R. China

    Li Li

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You, F., Palmer, I., Godfrey, W., Zheng, Z.B. (2006). Creating Emotions by Characters Design for Computer Games. In: Pan, Z., Aylett, R., Diener, H., Jin, X., Göbel, S., Li, L. (eds) Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment. Edutainment 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3942. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11736639_78

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