{"id":33,"date":"2006-05-13T23:31:16","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T21:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/?p=33"},"modified":"2006-06-15T08:29:27","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T06:29:27","slug":"activities-not-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Activities, not characters"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It is our claim that the best way to include [activities] is for there to be actual ‘activity-things’, non-physical entities with their own state and internal logic to them, existing in the game world. Based on their state, they influence the behaviour of the agents within them, and based on what happens, they change their state.”
\nBy Richard Evans and Thomas Barnet Lamb, Social Activities: Implementing Wittgenstein<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While Richard Evans’ work will probably always allow his characters to have more individuality than we need them to have for our purposes, the idea expressed above, connects very nicely to our ideas of Usage instructions<\/a>, AI from the outside<\/a> and Modeling relationships<\/a>. We have developed a preference for designing the things between the characters<\/em> rather than what happens inside<\/em> of them. The viewer can only perceive the outside anyway, the things that are expressed. Social activities are a prime example of how individual autonomous agents can be directed as a group. They don’t need individual minds to make decisions. Mr. Evans would not go this far because he wants his simulations to really work. While we only care about the illusion that takes place in the player’s mind.<\/p>\n

The use of Finite State Machines to define these group activities, as suggested by Richard Evans, is fascinating and definitely something to keep in mind when the time comes to design Drama Princess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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