Towards Procedural Quest Generation: A Structural Analysis of RPG Quests

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  • Jonathon Doran
  • Ian Parberry
چکیده

An analysis of several role playing games indicates that player quests share common elements, and that these quests may be abstractly represented using a small expressive language. One benefit of this representation is that it can guide procedural content generation by allowing quests to be generated using this abstraction, and then later converting them into a concrete form within a game’s domain.

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تاریخ انتشار 2010