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Designing Semantic Game Worlds

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Kessing, Jassin Bidarra, Rafael Tutenel, Tim
Abstract	Current game worlds often fall short in providing consistency between the visual representation of the world and the way it feels, behaves, and reacts. This problem partly originates from the goal-oriented and cost-effective nature of the game development process, which mostly favors ad hoc solutions for one particular game, rather than investing in concepts like reusability and emergent gameplay. In broader terms, we observe that game worlds miss semantics, and we argue that its deployment has the potential to bring about the consistency missing in their content. Therefore, we present a novel approach aimed at enriching virtual entities in game worlds with information about their roles, how they relate to others, and how they can affect and interact with players, NPCs, and with each other. We discuss several requirements to achieve these goals, and introduce a semantic model to represent game worlds. In order to support and validate this model, we have developed Entika, a framework to facilitate the deployment of semantics during game development, as well as its maintenance during run-time. Furthermore, we briefly discuss several applications that demonstrate the power of this semantic model for game worlds. After careful evaluation of our semantic game world model and framework, we conclude that a semantically rich world representation can substantially assist designers in creating much more consistent game worlds.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	9
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450314473
DOI	10.1145/2538528.2538530
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2012-05-29
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Object interaction Semantics Game worlds
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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