Drama management and player modeling for interactive fiction games

Computational Intelligence

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 183-211

  Sharma, Manu ^a   Ontañón, Santiago ^a   Mehta, Manish ^a   Ram, Ashwin ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Drama management; Interactive fiction; Player modeling

Indexed keywords

HUMAN PLAYERS; INTERACTIVE FICTION; MANAGEMENT COMPONENTS; PERSONALIZATIONS; PLAYER EXPERIENCE; PLAYER MODELING; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES;

MANAGEMENT;

CASE BASED REASONING;

EID: 77951699329     PISSN: 08247935     EISSN: 14678640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8640.2010.00355.x     Document Type: Article

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