quote:http://www.igda.org/ai/ai_committee.php Nowadays, game AI developers rarely have a chance to work on higher-level AI, like believable and interesting NPCs that can learn, have emotions and complex reasoning and interaction skills, or an automated story-telling system that adapts to a player''s interests. Much more likely, an AI developer will spend her/his time struggling with low-level pathfinding details.

what do you think about this?? i am working on an AE system for improving my game, i want to know if there is people which work on the same matter, and i''m interresting in sharing thought on the matter my system is finish yet i have some issue to find useable material on emotions and moods (think a social game as a soap opera as a model for a general emotion focuse experimental game) my system as a preference appraisal system which appraise object and events from their attributes and output an weighted emotion emotion are send to a FMS mood system which switch between mood according to emotion i have avoid need and desire because (in this case), the game make an evaluation of the world and attribute role and fonction to npc the whole problem hear is to find which emotion and which mood and how they interact each other (for a social narratives orianted game not like a simulation orianted game like the sims) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> be good be evil but do it WELL >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

hello

i''ve post more information on the gamedesign board before, because i start there, i was thinking it was more an deign issue than AI but it''s seems that i was wrong

i''va read both article:
gamasutra> wow, it'' a kind like what i have design the whole engine
AI depot> i''m not agree that emotion is this difficult to model, we have just to start with rough design before improve, by pratice and common sense we can arrive to a beleivable solution

well the actual engine work by appraisal a scene through prefence as i say, there is two kind of things which is appraise, events and evironnement

events are action and change in the scene
environnement are attribute in the scene (object and agent attribute each agent is define by a vector of attribute)

this goes in the preference filter (which is a kind of perception) which contain standard, like and dislike, needs, personnality etc..., everything which belongs to the agents and this system output a primitives weighted emotion which can switch the weighted mood state, mood state affect the weight of preference.

mood affect behaviour set according to role and other required influance (such as social rule, needs of the scenario, etc...)
then behaviour and action affect the scene and the process cycle again

the problem is to indentify primitives emotion and mood, and what kind of interaction they have each over

i have also post on gamedesign IGDA forum and i will certainly start wandering around AI forum, because it''s a great step to take!

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
be good
be evil
but do it WELL
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

i have done some more advenced reshearch

it's seems that where there is emotion in game they skip emotion for a more behavorial stimuli respond (maybe in sooner game we will find this)

but is it correct for making more believable game??

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well it's seems that, thanks to ai depot, that i'm not exactly using a FSM but a kind FuWSM (fuzzy weighted state machine)
is something like FuWSM exist??

and where i could find a classification of emotion and mood??

la suite au prochain episode??
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
be good
be evil
but do it WELL
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[edited by - Neoshaman on September 5, 2003 4:17:45 AM]

well actually i have built a table of emotion but i don't know how to manage them
the output of preference is > please/displease (more like comfort/discomfort?)
ouput for standard is > praise/blame (respect/anger)
relation with player is >hate to love
the intemency come to > stranger to familiar
mood can be set at>calm, sadness-despress, joy,anger-rage, nervosity-anxiety

well, the appraisal system work by filter action and events by the preference which ouput weighted emotion (blue>like a lot>please++,spider>fear a lot>displease- - - -, something like that, but please/displease is not enough to get all emotion)


the true problem is (and that's why i type it's a design issue rather than something else) :
the language we use for emotion isn't accurate and many words cover many reality
you can esteem someone you hate(respect) and misesteem someone you love (pity??? )
then praise and blame shouldn't lead to like and dislike??
what's make someone like or hate you, more and more??
how and why we switch to a mood to the others (pratically)??
how does emotion affect mood concretly??
i'm not sure if emotion and mood state i have choose is the good choice, it seems to me that the model lack something

mood is problematic too because we act according to a general mood and have specific mood towards other's which are dependant but not the same (i forgot to put a mood variable in the relation set, since you can be angry towards someone you like)

actually the personnality is suggesting in designing each preference and standard of a character

mood work as en emotionnal memory (persistance of emotion)which affect long term action, while emotion affect short term action

it's important because in actual game there is no long term relation in ae's npc they are more like stimuli response, the behavorist approche failed to model deeper feelings, because there is no memory (the relation cannot evolve according to action of player AND by choice of the npc, they are mostly script when they are well done)
they failed also in a true autonome agent in a story and narratives simulation

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
be good
be evil
but do it WELL
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[edited by - Neoshaman on September 5, 2003 12:39:41 AM]