NDLI: A Gossip Virtual Social Network for Non Playable Characters in Role Play Games

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Perrie, J. Ling Li
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput., Curtin Univ. of Technol., Perth, WA, Australia (Perrie, J.; Ling Li)
Abstract	A challenge faced by the video game industry is to develop believable and more intelligent Non-Playable Characters (NPCs). NPCs are still mostly underdeveloped within Role Playing Games (RPGs) and highly sophisticated NPCs require a large amount of time and effort to build. To tackle this problem a low-cost and simple approach has been proposed in this research, which is the development of a gossip virtual social network for NPCs. The network allows simple individual NPCs to communicate their knowledge amongst themselves. The communication within this social network is governed by social-psychological rules. These rules are categorized into four types: Contact, whether the NPCs are within contactable range of each other, Observation, whether the NPCs actually want to talk to each other based on their personal traits, Status, the current representation of the NPCs, and Relationships which determines the long term ties of the NPCs. Evaluations of the proposed virtual gossip social network was conducted, both through statistical analysis and through a survey of real users. Highly satisfactory results have been achieved.
Starting Page	151
Ending Page	158
File Size	349927
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781479922468
DOI	10.1109/CW.2013.17
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-10-21
Publisher Place	Japan
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Games Social network services Peer-to-peer computing Artificial intelligence Intelligent agents Communities Psychology social-psychological rules Intelligent NPCs Gossip virtual social networks
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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