Abstract
The authoring and configuration of affective characters for interactive narratives presents a significant problem for the viability of interactive digital storytelling. Motivated by work on exploring the author’s perspective on character creation, we present an outline of how a selection of action sequences as backstory experiences can be used to derive configuration parameters for an affective agent architecture. Potential planning paths that include the action sequences provide the foundation for setting concrete values for the importance of goals, standards, and tastes of the character as well as for determining the availability of implicated plans during runtime.
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Rank, S., Petta, P. (2012). Backstory Authoring for Affective Agents. In: Oyarzun, D., Peinado, F., Young, R.M., Elizalde, A., Méndez, G. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7648. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34851-8_14
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