Drama managers reconfigure a game in reaction to a player’s actions. In declarative optimization-based drama management (DODM), a game’s story is abstracted as a sequence of plot points; possible drama manager interventions are abstracted as a set of DM actions. The author defines an function evaluating story quality, and some optimization method (currently reinforcement learning) chooses DM ac...

In this paper we investigate whether a personality profile can be determined by observing a player’s behavior in a game. Five personality traits are used to define a personality profile. They are adopted from the Five Factor Model of personality. The five traits are measured by the NEO-PI-R questionnaire. For our purpose, we developed a game module for the game Neverwinter Nights. The module au...

ScriptEase is a tool for writing interactive stories in roleplaying games that frees the author from doing explicit computer programming. A story is created by selecting and customizing patterns for the plot, encounters, behaviors and conversations. It has been implemented as a front end to BioWare's Neverwinter Nights game. We will describe our experiences using ScriptEase as part of a high sc...

Scripting the plot in a computer role-playing game requires a large number of scripts that are difficult to program, track and maintain. Game adventures often include simple plots, called side-quests, that are independent from the main plot. Sidequests are important, as they add value to the open-world appeal of the game (e.g., for acquiring experience or resources), but they still need scripts...

In this paper, an automatic method for Persian WordNet construction based on Prenceton WordNet 2.1 (PWN) is introduced. The proposed approach uses Persian and English corpora as well as a bilingual dictionary in order to make a mapping between PWN synsets and Persian words. Our method calculates a score for each candidate synset of a given Persian word and for each of its translation, it select...