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A Simple Intensity-Based Drama Manager

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2010)

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We have implemented an action-based role-playing game, called Wind’s End, that incorporates a simple, practical algorithm to enforce rising dramatic intensity during game play by controlling the choice of goals by nonplayer characters.

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  1. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

    Christopher Ramsley, Matthew Fugere, Randi Pawson, Charles Rich & Dean O’Donnell

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  1. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, UK

    Ruth Aylett

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

    Mei Yii Lim

  3. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, EH 14 4AS, Edinburgh, UK

    Sandy Louchart

  4. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Freyung 6/6, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Paolo Petta

  5. School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 85 Fifth Street NW, 30308, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Mark Riedl

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Ramsley, C., Fugere, M., Pawson, R., Rich, C., O’Donnell, D. (2010). A Simple Intensity-Based Drama Manager. In: Aylett, R., Lim, M.Y., Louchart, S., Petta, P., Riedl, M. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6432. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16638-9_25

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