{"id":29,"date":"2006-05-05T18:31:51","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T16:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/?p=29"},"modified":"2006-06-15T08:31:29","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T06:31:29","slug":"consistency-for-consisencys-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Consistency for consisency&#8217;s sake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consistency is the one reason why randomness is not good enough when it comes to making decisons. The spectator needs to be able to construct an imaginary story in his head. Radical shifts in emotions expressed don&#8217;t seem logical <em>most of the time<\/em>. But <em>sometimes<\/em> they do. And some characters would be more prone to having mood swings (children and madmen e.g.).<\/p>\n<p>Since we don&#8217;t really care <em>how<\/em> our characters &#8220;feel&#8221;, as long as they display believable behaviour, we could arrange all possible actions in categories. And then a character would pick a random action from the category that it previously picked one from most of the time. Every time it picks an action from the same category, its <strong>attention span<\/strong> decreases a bit. For some characters this &#8220;bit&#8221; is larger than for others, i.e. some characters have a short attention span.<\/p>\n<p>Shocking events could reset the attention span of all characters present to force them to change their behaviours.<\/p>\n<p>This solves the problem of consistency when characters are given complete freedom (randomness).<\/p>\n<p>Some of the times, however, we <em>will<\/em> want the characters to behave in a certain way, i.e. to choose actions from certain categories only. Like the &#8220;shocking events&#8221;, this is also something that could be enforced from above. Certain areas or situations would be defined as having a certain mood. As long as this mood lasts, only certain categories of actions are appropriate.<br \/>\nThis leaves one problem: depending on their personality, characters would respond differently to the same mood. If the mood is a threatening, violent one, the Wolf would be very comfortable and dominant while Red Ridinghood might be afraid and nervous.<br \/>\n<em>How do characters respond to an objective mood in a subjective way?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consistency is the one reason why randomness is not good enough when it comes to making decisons. The spectator needs to be able to construct an imaginary story in his head. Radical shifts in emotions expressed don&#8217;t seem logical most of the time. But sometimes they do. And some characters would be more prone to [&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-29","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\/29","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=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}