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Journal Articles (Educational Psychology)
Items in this Collection
- 2Game scripting
- 1Adaptive programming
- 1Automatic code generation
- 1Computer game
- 1Computer role-playing games
- 1Game agent
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2004
Redford, J., McNaughton, M., Cutumisu, M., Schaeffer, J., Szafron, D., Parker, D.
The state-of-the-art in game scripting is to manually script individual game objects that interact in the game. Thousands of non-player characters (NPCs) and props need to be scripted before they play a part in a game adventure. This situation introduces serious concerns about programming effort...
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2007
Schaeffer, Jonathan, Siegel, Jeff, Duff, Harvey, Schumacher, Allan, Roy, Thomas, Gillis, Stephanie, Onuczko, Curtis, McNaughton, Matthew, Carbonaro, Mike, Waugh, Kevin, Szafron, Duane, Cutumisu, Maria
The traditional approach to implementing interactions between a player character (PC) and objects in computer games is to write scripts in a procedural scripting language. These scripts are usually so complex that they must be written by a computer programmer rather than by the author of the game...