{"id":80,"date":"2006-06-13T08:51:04","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T06:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/?p=80"},"modified":"2006-06-13T08:55:30","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T06:55:30","slug":"imitation-as-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Imitation as expression"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Oz papers<\/a> tell me that expressing emotions is very important for the characters to be believable (which is something they in turn learned from the Disney animators). And my Body Language<\/a> book tells me that when people like each other, they start imitating each other’s body language, at least in the early stage of the friendship.<\/p>\n

So it seems that it would help believabilty if characters would express the effect of an interaction with each other through body language (rather than by having plus or minus signs float above their heads as in The Sims). So that when the interaction (i.e. “achieving the goal” in Consumerism<\/a> speak) results in a positive effect on the relationship, the characters briefly imitate each other’s posture. Or when the effect was negative, they purposely don’t.
\nPerhaps the animation sequence that is played during such an interaction can end in a certain pose (it has to go back to some neutral stance anyway) which is an invitation for the other character to either imitate or ignore.<\/p>\n

Even if this would look artificial, it could still be powerful. I only wonder whether this can be read<\/em> by the player (either consciously or subconsciously). I know of only one other game that uses imitation to express relationship: in Animal Crossing a character changes into the other character’s clothing to express fondess. This is very clear to the player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Oz papers tell me that expressing emotions is very important for the characters to be believable (which is something they in turn learned from the Disney animators). And my Body Language book tells me that when people like each other, they start imitating each other’s body language, at least in the early stage of […]<\/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-80","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\/80","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=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}