{"id":23,"date":"2006-05-01T16:33:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T14:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/?p=23"},"modified":"2006-05-01T16:33:06","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T14:33:06","slug":"willingness-in-the-suspension-of-disbelief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Willingness in the Suspension of Disbelief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/?p=21\">Animal Crossing<\/a> shows us very convincingly, making the player <I>like<\/I> the autonomous characters, already gets you halfway towards making the player believe them. This seems related to what Richard Evans once said about the creature in Black and White: one of the three design goals for the A.I. was to make the creature loveable.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the &#8220;willingness&#8221; aspect of the proverbial &#8220;Willing Suspension of Disbelief&#8221; that is required for the audience to enjoy fiction, is often underrated. Surely a lot can be done in the design of both the appearance and the behaviour of the characters in a game, to increase this willingness in the player. One powerful means towards this, is to make the characters loveable, cute, attractive, charming.<br \/>\nPerhaps this is where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/?p=11\">The Sims<\/a> fail most of the time: the characters seem to be too selfish, greedy and nasty to develop any feelings for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Animal Crossing shows us very convincingly, making the player like the autonomous characters, already gets you halfway towards making the player believe them. This seems related to what Richard Evans once said about the creature in Black and White: one of the three design goals for the A.I. was to make the creature loveable. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}