Dragons, bats and evil knights: a three-layer design approach to character-based creative play

Virtual Reality

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 57-71

  Bryson, J ^a   Thorisson K R ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LEOO Digital   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Behaviour based ai; Character architectures; Constructive narrative; Design team methodology; Personality and action selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 11944259196     PISSN: 13594338     EISSN: 14349957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01424337     Document Type: Article

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