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Tool for Game Plot Line Visualization for Designers, Testers and Players

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Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering (CDVE 2023)

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This paper presents a tool for automatic and interactive visualization of game plots, which can be used to check whether the designers’ work meets the constraints of the world, to help testers control played game story paths. The referential designers’ game plots can be imported from any flowchart diagrams as an XML file and the actual gameplay variant is generated on the fly and applied to the original design based on detected common diagram points.

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  1. Department of Information Technologies, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

    Leszek Nowak

  2. Department of Games Technology, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

    Iwona Grabska-Gradzińska

  3. Department of Design and Computer Graphics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

    Wojciech Palacz & Ewa Grabska

  4. Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

    Maria Guzik

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Nowak, L., Grabska-Gradzińska, I., Palacz, W., Grabska, E., Guzik, M. (2023). Tool for Game Plot Line Visualization for Designers, Testers and Players. In: Luo, Y. (eds) Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. CDVE 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14166. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43815-8_8

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