Using Out-of-Character Reasoning to Combine Storytelling and Education in a Serious Game

1st International Workshop on Pedagogically-driven Serious Games (PDSG 2012)

Jeroen Linssen ; Mariët Theune

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PID  :  43262

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

To reconcile storytelling and educational meta-goals in the context of a serious game, we propose to make use of out-of-character reasoning in virtual agents. We will implement these agents in a serious game of our design, which will focus on social interaction in conflict scenarios with the meta-goal of improving social awareness of users. The agents will use out-of-character reasoning to manage conflicts by assum- ing different in-character personalities or by planning to take specific actions based on interaction with the users. In-character reasoning is responsible for the storytelling concerns of character believability and consistency. These are not endangered by out-of-character reasoning, as it takes in-character information into account when making decisions.