An integral part of social believability in role playing games is believability of non-player characters (NPC). In this paper we argue for the importance of believability in NPCs, even those that are completely outside of any pre-written quest or plot. We present NPCAgency, a system designed to generate many conversational NPCs as packaged narrative assets that can be shared and imported into v...

story and novel writing have been a traditional legacy of india and they have been a part of indian culture. story writing has a pronounced past and an equally impeccable present. epics like the mahabharata and ramayana as well as fables like the panchtantra are acclaimed as the heritage of glorious works of literature across the world. persian, urdu and hindi languages are very closely linked ...

there is no reference to the word “karimān” in garshaāp story in the avesta, pahlavi and persian zoroastrian texts. however, it can be found in the story of “rostam and sohrāb”, and “rostam and esfandiār” in the shāh-nāmeh. since the epic texts in other iranian languages are significant in shāh-nāmeh studies, the haft-lashkar manuscript and other texts in the gurani language are worth consideri...

This paper describes the development of an expert casebased character director system which dynamically generates and controls a story, which is played out in a multiplayer networked game world. The system handles multiple users in a game world and directs the non player characters therein to perform for the users parallel storylines, interweaving character roles in each story. The story is tol...

Nader and Simin—A Separation is the first Iranian movie which won manyinternational awards as well as admiration from critics and the public. Many reviewsby critics, however, have revolved around problems in spousal relationships ofcouples in different social classes of Iran. Through highlighting the self-evidentdismantling elements and unreliable readings in the acting, directing, and even the...

the concept of diegesis (telling or recounting a story) originally appeared in plato's thesis as opposed to mimesis (showing or enacting a story). plato described diegesis as the third person style of expressing a fiction mediated by an author/narrator, whereas he proposed mimesis as the first person style of presenting a story by means of characters and actions. aristotle then applied mim...

The development of virtual story-telling is an ever ongoing process. As long as it does not perform on the same level as a human storyteller, there is room for improvement. The Virtual Storyteller, a project of the HMI department of the University of Twente, uses a Text-to-Speech application that creates synthetic speech from text input. It is definitely not a trivial matter to make synthetic s...

mamdūh adwān (1941-2004) is a contemporary syrian poet who has vastly used traditions in his poems and has tried to express his ideas and stances toward arab world's current problems in a symbolic way and through traditional characters. mamdūh adwān is known as a poet committed to his country and people, and so, he considers expression of problems and provision of solutions as the highest ...