AI Design for Believable Characters via Gameplay Design Patterns

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Author(s): Petri Lankoski (Aalto University, Finland), Anja Johansson (Linköping University, Sweden), Benny Karlsson (Fabrication Games Europe AB, Sweden), Staffan Björk (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)and Pierangelo Dell’Acqua (Linköping University, Sweden)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 17
Source title: Business, Technological, and Social Dimensions of Computer Games: Multidisciplinary Developments
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal), Vitor Hugo Varvalho (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal)and Paula Tavares (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-567-4.ch002

Keywords: Gaming / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Multimedia Technology

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We address the problem of creating human-like, believable behavior for game characters. To achieve character believability in games, the game designer needs to develop that character so that it fulfills as many aspects of believability as possible. With believable behavior we mean that the game is consistently structured in terms of narration or gameplay so that it is possible to build and maintain coherent relations between the actions of the characters. In this paper, we first analyze the general patterns for game characters design in detail concentrating on the aspects that are relevant to the AI design. Then, we present an agent architecture that we are developing, and discuss how this architecture can address the identified design patterns.

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