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Towards Integrating Plot and Character for Interactive Drama

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The authors are currently engaged in a three year collaboration to build an interactive story world integrating believable agents and interactive plot. This paper provides a brief description of the project goals and design requirements, discusses the problem of autonomy in the context of story-based believable agents, and describes an architecture that uses the dramatic beat as a s tructural principle to integrate plot and character.

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Mateas, M., Stern, A. (2002). Towards Integrating Plot and Character for Interactive Drama. In: Dautenhahn, K., Bond, A., Cañamero, L., Edmonds, B. (eds) Socially Intelligent Agents. Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47373-9_27

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