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Drama Princess is a research and development project by Tale of Tales<\/A>. It is an attempt to create a reusable virtual actor for realtime 3D projects. The focus is on expressiveness and dramatic effect rather than simulation and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

This journal exists to keep a record of the progress that we’re making and to invite and collect input from other people.<\/p>\n

Don’t build an A.I. system when randomness is just as good.<\/B>
\nPeople want to believe. They want to make sense of what they see. They automatically make up stories. We want to use this inclination in order to avoid building complex systems that will always only half-work anyway. Richness in behaviour will add more to credibility than consistency in logic.<\/p>\n

Reusable<\/B>
\nDrama Princess should be a module that can be used to portray many different characters with very different personalities. We should be able to define these personalities with a minimum of fuss.<\/p>\n

No language<\/B>
\nIn the games of Tale of Tales, we tend to avoid the use of any specific language, spoken or written. This simplifies at least one problem when creating an autonomous agent: Drama Princess does not need to speak, nor does it need to understand words.<\/p>\n

Humans<\/B>
\nWe realize that using animals or other non-human creatures is a very clever trick to make an autonomous character seem more intelligent. But Drama Princess’s focus is on humans. We want to tell stories to humans about humans.<\/p>\n

No games<\/B>
\nTale of Tales does not necessarily want to develop games. We’re interested in entertaining interaction with virtual worlds and characters. But not necessarily in games. In fact we suspect that the goal-oriented and rules-based nature of games may stand in the way of artistic expressiveness, which is the primary goal of our work.<\/p>\n

Technology<\/B>
\nThe technology that we use to develop this system is Quest3D<\/A>, a realtime visual programming environment for interactive 3D.<\/p>\n

Support<\/B>
\nDrama Princess is supported by the Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds<\/A>.<\/p>\n

Open source<\/B>
\nThe results of our research, including any source files, will be released in the public domain when we’re done.<\/p>\n

This blog<\/B>
\nWe chose the blog format because it arranges posts chronologically and we want to be able to see the evolution of our ideas. Nevertheless, some posts, especially the ones in the Books, Websites and Games categories, may be updated, as the research into their topics continues.<\/p>\n

The software used for this weblog is WordPress<\/A>.<\/p>\n

The Drama Princess signature drawing of the Deaf Mute Little Girl in the Pretty White Dress with her cat was made by Gorik Lindemans for 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The main editor of this journal is Micha\u00c3\u00abl Samyn, co-founder and designer\/programmer at Tale of Tales<\/a>. Micha\u00c3\u00abl has a background in graphic design, website design and net.art. He is one half of Entropy8Zuper!<\/a>
\nAs of 2002, he has focused on developing interactive experiences in realtime 3D. With Auriea Harvey, he hopes to realize some of the artistic potential of games technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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