Rules of engagement: Moving beyond combat-based quests

Proceedings of the Intelligent Narrative Technologies III Workshop, INT3 '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sullivan, Anne ^a   Mateas, Michael ^a   Wardrip Fruin, Noah ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Quests; Role playing games; Rule based systems

Indexed keywords

NARRATIVE STRUCTURES; ROLE-PLAYING GAME; RULE BASED SYSTEM; RULES OF ENGAGEMENTS; RUNTIMES; STORYLINES;

EID: 77955122524     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1822309.1822320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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