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2006

Onuczko, Curtis, Schaeffer, Jonathan, Cutumisu, Maria, Roy, Thomas, Carbonaro, Mike, McNaughton, Matthew, Szafron, Duane

To compete in today's market, companies that develop computer role-playing games (CRPGs) must quickly and reliably create realistic, engaging game stories. Indeed, intricate storylines and realism that goes beyond graphics have become major product differentiators. To establish both, it's...

2006

Cutumisu, Maria, Szafron, Duane, Roy, Thomas, Carbonaro, Mike, McNaughton, Matthew, Schaeffer, Jonathan, Onuczko, Curtis

Many computer games use custom scripts to control the ambient behaviors of non-player characters (NPCs). Therefore, a story writer must write fragments of computer code for the hundreds or thousands of NPCs in the game world. The challenge is to create entertaining and non-repetitive behaviors...

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...

2021

Viggiato, M., Lin, D., Hindle, Abram, Bezemer, C.P.

Sentiment analysis is a popular technique to identify the sentiment of a piece of text. Several different domains have been targeted by sentiment analysis research, such as Twitter, movie reviews, and mobile app reviews. Although several techniques have been proposed, the performance of current...