Simulation of the dynamics of nonplayer characters' emotions and social relations in games

IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 281-297

  Ochs, Magalie ^a   Sabouret, Nicolas ^a   Corruble, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Emotions; Nonplayer character(NPC); Personality; Social relations

Indexed keywords

NON-PLAYER CHARACTER; SOCIAL RELATIONS; VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY;

EID: 77955703151     PISSN: 1943068X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2009.2036247     Document Type: Article

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