Date of Award
12-2022
Document Type
Thesis open access
Department
Computer Science
First Advisor
Britton Horn
Abstract
Although previous artificial intelligence research has done much to advance video games, not as much has been done to integrate that research into commercially viable titles. In this study, the game Barrel Smasher was developed, demonstrating a socially aware model of Non-Player Characters based on internal trust scores of other characters. The game allows the player to interact with these characters through dialogue, and it provides elements of Role-Playing Games like quests, items, and combat. The result is a game that combines social interactions and other forms of gameplay into a single, connected system. In doing so, the game creates interactive quest progression with more variation than is found in traditional quest systems.
Recommended Citation
Cartwright, Morgan, "Trust-Based Social Behaviour in Role-Playing Games" (2022). Computer Science Honors Theses. 68.
https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/compsci_honors/68
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