Portland Area Developers, PAGDIG meeting this Thursday
by Brian Richardson · in General Discussion · 03/05/2006 (2:05 pm) · 2 replies
We've got Andrew Stern the developer of Facade and recent winner of the Grand Jury Sparky from the 2006 Slamdance Guerilla Gamemaker Competition will be giving a talk about the development of facade. Please visit the PAGDIG website for time/location details. Here's what the content of the talk will be about:
In this informal talk, Andrew Stern will describe the process of building Façade (a collaboration with Michael Mateas), a process that combined three simultaneous and related research and design efforts: designing ways to deconstruct a dramatic narrative into a hierarchy of story and behavior pieces; engineering an AI system that responds to and integrates the player's moment-by-moment interactions to reconstruct a real-time dramatic performance from those pieces; and understanding how to write an engaging, compelling story within this new organizational framework. Andrew will do his darndest to provide an overview of the process of bringing this interactive drama to life as a coherent, engaging, high agency experience, including the design and programming of thousands of joint dialog behaviors in the reactive planning language ABL, and their higher-level organization into a collection of story beats sequenced by a drama manager. Throat dry and ready for a beer, he'll haphazardly describe the iterative development of the architecture, its languages, authorial idioms, and varieties of story content structures, and how these content structures are designed to intermix to offer players a high-degree of responsiveness and narrative agency. Fatigued, he'll muster the energy to conclude with design and implementation lessons learned as well as describe current and future research and commercial directions.
Hope to see you all there!
bzztbomb -- Knowhere Studios
In this informal talk, Andrew Stern will describe the process of building Façade (a collaboration with Michael Mateas), a process that combined three simultaneous and related research and design efforts: designing ways to deconstruct a dramatic narrative into a hierarchy of story and behavior pieces; engineering an AI system that responds to and integrates the player's moment-by-moment interactions to reconstruct a real-time dramatic performance from those pieces; and understanding how to write an engaging, compelling story within this new organizational framework. Andrew will do his darndest to provide an overview of the process of bringing this interactive drama to life as a coherent, engaging, high agency experience, including the design and programming of thousands of joint dialog behaviors in the reactive planning language ABL, and their higher-level organization into a collection of story beats sequenced by a drama manager. Throat dry and ready for a beer, he'll haphazardly describe the iterative development of the architecture, its languages, authorial idioms, and varieties of story content structures, and how these content structures are designed to intermix to offer players a high-degree of responsiveness and narrative agency. Fatigued, he'll muster the energy to conclude with design and implementation lessons learned as well as describe current and future research and commercial directions.
Hope to see you all there!
bzztbomb -- Knowhere Studios
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bzztbomb -- Knowhere Studios
04/13/2006 (3:43 pm)
Bump, another "hang out" meeting tonight. See the PAGDIG site for more info.bzztbomb -- Knowhere Studios
Torque Owner Brian Richardson
bzztbomb -- Knowhere Studios