True story: Dynamically generated, contextually linked quests in persistent systems

Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Future Play, Future Play '07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 145-151

  Pita, James ^a   Magerko, Brian ^b   Brodie, Scott ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

contextually linked goals; dynamic quest generation; game AI; interactive narrative; MMORPG; multiplayer games; story generation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE APPROACH; GAME AI; GAME MODELS; GENERATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER; MMORPGS; MODULAR APPROACH; MULTIPLAYER GAMES; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; ROLE-PLAYING GAME; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; USER EXPERIENCE;

EID: 77954569175     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1328202.1328228     Document Type: Conference Paper

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