NPC (Non-Player Character) & Social Simulation

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Non-Player Characters (NPCs) are computer-controlled characters that are used in games, simulations, and other interactive media. They are typically designed to interact with the player in some way, either by providing information, selling items, or engaging in combat. In social simulation games, NPCs are used to represent other characters or individuals in the game world and to provide a sense of immersion and social interaction for the player. They can be programmed to behave and interact in specific ways, such as by following certain routines or responding to player actions. NPCs can be used to create a sense of realistic social interaction within a game or simulation, and they can be used to provide challenges, goals, and other types of gameplay elements for the player.

A non-playable character (NPC) is a character in a game that cannot be controlled by the player. These characters are typically controlled by the game’s AI and are used to provide background or story elements in the game. NPCs are often used to provide information, quest objectives, or other types of gameplay elements for the player, but they cannot be directly controlled by the player. Non-playable characters are often used in games to provide a sense of realism and to help advance the story or gameplay.

The main difference between NPCs and virtual humans is that NPCs are simpler and more limited in their behavior and interactions, while virtual humans are designed to be more realistic and lifelike. Virtual humans are also typically more complex and require more advanced programming and technologies to create and maintain.

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Immerse: Interactive mentoring for multimodal experiences in realistic social encounters
W Ferguson, D Diller, K Moffitt, B Roberts, W Coon… – 2015 – apps.dtic.mil
… Center for Advanced Operational Culture and Learning 3.3 Publications and Presentations 4. Simulator System Description 4.1 System Architecture 4.2 System Components 4.2.1 MiBA 4.2.2 Social Pragmatics 4.2.3 MiBA Signal Visualization 4.2.4 Social Simulation Engine and …

Interstellar Travel Across Virtual Galaxies
WS Bainbridge – Computer Simulations of Space Societies, 2018 – Springer
… Arthur is a robot, thus comparable to the non-player characters (NPCs) in role-playing computer games, simulated people who are largely pre-programmed but … As an IGN review explains, there are several ways in which this is a social simulation: “As you play the game you not …

Territoriality and Visible Social Commitment for Virtual Agents
J Rossi, L Veroli, M Massetti – skemman.is
… Abbreviations NPC Non-Player Character STRIPS Stanford Research Institute Problem Solver … it contains the informations of multiple objects in its area, their relationships and the scripts used by the Non-Player Character (NPC) to interact with them. The scripting …

Enabl: A modular authoring interface for creating interactive characters
A Grow – Advancement report, University of California, Santa …, 2015 – users.soe.ucsc.edu
… scenario (Sosa & Gero 2003). Shapiro et. al., in their social simulation, used improv and live action to help conceptualize details of their scenario for their graphics and AI authors (Shapiro et. al. 2013). Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI …

Game engine architecture
J Gregory – 2017 – content.taylorfrancis.com
Page 1. Page 2. Game Engine Architecture SECOND EDITION Page 3. Page 4. CRC Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Boca Raton London New York Game Engine Architecture SECOND EDITION Jason Gregory …

Creation of a mobile game about environmental sustainability
VE Alcázar López – 2018 – upcommons.upc.edu
… to communicate with them. Dont Starve It is a survival game about resisting the harshness of nature and various monster attacks. Some mechanics like exploration and the dynamics of creature Non-Playable Characters (NPCs) might be useful for the project. 16 Page 24 …

Generating Semantic Information for Virtual Environments
JT Balint, JM Allbeck – … on Virtual Humans and Crowds for …, 2016 – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… They provide ambiance as Non-Player Characters is games [1], and are essential for testing out new scenarios before physical … Beyond simulations: serious games for training interpersonal skills in law enforcement,” in Proceedings of European Social Simulation Asso- ciation …

Gamification to improve adherence to clinical treatment advice
D Richards, PH Caldwell – … Lit. Breakthr. Res. Pract. Breakthr. Res …, 2017 – books.google.com
… In most current VWs for social simulation, a human selects an ‘avatar’, typically a humanlike graphical representation that they … we are interested in VWs which support intelligent social interactions between humans and computer-based non-player characters (NPCs) known as …

A panorama of artificial and computational intelligence in games
GN Yannakakis, J Togelius – IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… AI/CI areas identified during the Dagstuhl seminar and covered in this paper are as follows: 1) Non-player character (NPC) behavior … is because pathfinding is a relatively isolated area with restricted interaction with the other research areas, and social simulation overlaps very …

Application areas of ephemeral computing: A survey
C Cotta, AJ Fernández-Leiva, FF de Vega… – Transactions on …, 2016 – Springer
… intelligence, and that results in a number of interesting sub-fields such as AI-assisted game design, computational narrative, procedural content generation, non-player-character (NPC) behavior learning, NPC affective computing, believable bots, social simulation, and player …

Artificial intelligence and behavioral geography
PM Torrens – Handbook of Behavioral and Cognitive Geography, 2018 – books.google.com
… 2008), and around non-player characters (NPCs) that are often required to move, run away, give chase, and collaborate with realistic behavioral … Street: An environment for exploring agent-based models in Second Life, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 12 (4 …

Multi-agent simulations for the evaluation of Looting Systems design in MMOG and MOBA games
LA Ripamonti, M Granato, M Trubian, A Knutas… – … Modelling Practice and …, 2018 – Elsevier
… common Game Description Language. In video game design, agents can be assimilated to Non-Playable Characters (NPCs), that try to mimic the behaviour of an actual living being (not necessarily human). For example, ABM …

Creating Affective Autonomous Characters Using Planning in Partially Observable Stochastic Domains
X Huang, S Zhang, Y Shang… – IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… I. INTRODUCTION N early computer games, in-game agents were simulated as part of the game logic; Non-player Characters (NPCs) were merely … is based on PsychSim [51], a multi-agent framework for social simulation using POMDP agents. Thespian has been used for the …

Simulating Collaborative Learning through Decision-Theoretic Agents
DV Pynadath, N Wang, R Yang – ceur-ws.org
… We have built our testbed using the multiagent social simulation framework, PsychSim [22, 23] … Language Training System (TLTS) is an interactive narrative environment in which students practice their language and culture skills by talking to non-player characters built upon …

What are the graphical differences between Asian and Western playable female game character?: And what do people with different ethnic background prefer?
L Lin – 2017 – diva-portal.org
… The characters were playable characters, because many games do not always contain a protagonist or antagonist and that the focus is often on the playable characters than non-playable characters, and because of this, the choice of character was more reasonable …

Application Domains
J Padget, H Aldewereld, P Noriega… – … Frameworks for Social …, 2016 – Springer
… the nonessential characteristics of ‘Hybrid human/software agents’ and ‘On-line/real-time’, because of their interactive nature (non-player characters, or AI … For example, in Social Simulation, it is less likely that there is a mixture of agents of different types (different frameworks …

Capital Sandbox: Fantasy and the Mechanics of Form in Fallout 3
C Seidl – 2015 – scholarworks.gsu.edu
… and not merely a traveler through, the level. Neither does the player simply pass ethics by; as part of the social simulation of the Fallout 3 universe, the player’s actions literally alter the ethical status of the player-character. Each …

The virtual little Albert experiment: Creating conditioned emotion response in virtual agents
A Patrick, C Gittens… – 2015 IEEE Games …, 2015 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… I. INTRODUCTION Virtual agents are significant because they give the illusion of life as non-player characters (NPCs) by looking like and acting like humans in … [19] R. Sun, “The CLARION cognitive architecture: Extending cognitive modeling to social simulation,” in Cognition …

Papers, Please and the systemic approach to engaging ethical expertise in videogames
F Paul, R Malcolm, S Dan – 2016 – philpapers.org
Page 1. 1 Papers, Please and the Systemic Approach to Engaging Ethical Expertise in Videogames 1. Introduction Papers, Please, by Lucas Pope (2013), explores the story of a nameless citizen assigned the role of customs …

General Guidelines for Design of Affective Multi-Agent Systems
M Pud?ne, E Lavendelis – Applied Computer Systems, 2017 – degruyter.com
Page 1. Applied Computer Systems 5 ISSN 2255-8691 (online) ISSN 2255-8683 (print) December 2017, vol. 22, pp. 5–12 doi: 10.1515/acss-2017-0012 https://www.degruyter. com/view/j/acss ©2017 M?ra Pud?ne, Egons Lavendelis …

Frameworks Comparison
O Boissier, V Dignum, E García – Social Coordination Frameworks for …, 2016 – Springer
… case for instance with reliability or trustworthiness labelling in electronic markets (eg, listing in “red books”), or whitewashing and ostracism (in social simulation) … In games it is usual to distinguish two types: players and non-player characters, the first are meant to be human, the …

Remaking as Revision of Narrative Design in Digital Games
T? Sezen – Interactive Digital Narrative, 2015 – books.google.com
Page 275. 17 Remaking as Revision of Narrative Design in Digital Games Tonguç ?brahim Sezen 1. INTRoDUCTIoN In his book Best Before: Videogames, Supersession and Obsolescence, James Newman argues that game …

Intelligence unleashed: An argument for AI in education
R Luckin, W Holmes, M Griffiths, LB Forcier – 2016 – oro.open.ac.uk
Page 1. Open Research Online The Open University’s repository of research publications and other research outputs Intelligence Unleashed: An argument for AI in Education Other How to cite: Luckin, Rose; Holmes, Wayne; Griffiths, Mark and Forcier, Laurie B. (2016) …

An Approach To Artificial Society Generation For Video Games
B Sarlo – 2015 – ir.lib.uwo.ca
… new layers to the system to improve the realism of the generated society. Keywords Video games, artificial societies, simulation, generation, believable agents, social network, population, artificial intelligence, non-player characters, society models Page 4. iii Acknowledgments …

Ludological Communication of Social Reality
A Hrustanovic – core.ac.uk
Page 1. University of Gothenburg Department of Applied Information Technology Gothenburg, Sweden, June 2015 Ludological Communication of Social Reality (A communicational perspective) Aladin Hrustanovic Master of Communication Thesis Report nr. 2015:026 Page 2 …

Cultural Simulation and the Applications of Culturally Enabled Games and Technology
J Donahue – 2017 – utd-ir.tdl.org
… NGO: Non-Governmental Organization Page 14. xiv NPC: Non-Player Character (agent) PAL: Personal Assistants for Learning PDIA: Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation PMESII: Political, Military, Economic, Social, Information, and Infrastructure …

Learning Emotions: A Software Engine for Simulating Realistic Emotion in Artificial Agents
D Code – 2015 – openworks.wooster.edu
… models and simulations with greater depth and realism. In a different domain, video games frequently incorporate large numbers of non-player characters (NPCs). Games increasingly focus on open-world gameplay, where …

Schema formalism for the common model of cognition
AV Samsonovich – Biologically inspired cognitive architectures, 2018 – Elsevier
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Computer games and language learning
M Peterson – 2016 – books.google.com
Page 1. DIGITALs EDUCATION ANDLEARNING N – – – – – s s -º- – — s- º- – *- º – s COMPUTER GAMES AND LANGUAGE ARNING V. º MARK PETERSON Page 2. Palgrave Macmillan’s Digital Education and Learning Much …

Interpersonal and intrapersonal skill assessment alternatives: Self-reports, situational-judgment tests, and discrete-choice experiments
R Anderson, M Thier, C Pitts – Learning and Individual Differences, 2017 – Elsevier
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Towards a living earth simulator
M Paolucci, D Kossman, R Conte, P Lukowicz… – core.ac.uk
… The game environment of the LES Virtual World(s) will include social community tools, simulation modelling visualizations, avatars, non-player characters (NPCs), and open environments for meeting and discussions [38]. The environment …

Modelling Adaptation through Social Allostasis: Modulating the Effects of Social Touch with Oxytocin in Embodied Agents
I Khan, L Cañamero – Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2018 – mdpi.com
… Previous Article in Special Issue Reviews of Social Embodiment for Design of Non-Player Characters in Virtual Reality-Based … embodied agents. embodied affect. embodied interaction. social allostasis. oxytocin. homeostasis. social salience. social adaptation. social simulation …

A value equivalence approach for solving interactive dynamic influence diagrams
R Conroy, Y Zeng, M Cavazza, J Tang… – Proceedings of the 2016 …, 2016 – dl.acm.org
… 3.2.1 Value of the Learned Policy In the context of RTS games, we build an I-DID from the per- spective of a non-player character (NPC, or one human-player, de- noted by agent i) that models human-players (agent j) at a low level …

A method to assess pervasive qualities in mobile games
L Valente, B Feijó, JCSDP Leite, E Clua – Personal and Ubiquitous …, 2018 – dl.acm.org
… mobile games. First, games are software applica- tions that face almost every aspect of computing challenges. Secondly, games permeate many different areas (from social simulation to playful learning). Thirdly, pervasive games …

Intelligence Unleashed
R Luckin, W Holmes, M Griffiths… – An argument for AI in …, 2016 – researchgate.net
Page 1. Intelligence Unleashed An argument for AI in Education Rose Luckin Wayne Holmes UCL Knowledge Lab, University College London Mark Griffiths Laurie B. Forcier Pearson Open Ideas at Pearson Sharing independent …

Choosing and using digital games in the classroom
K Becker – 2017 – Springer
Page 1. Advances in Game-Based Learning Katrin Becker Choosing and Using Digital Games in the Classroom A Practical Guide Page 2. Advances in Game-Based Learning Series Editors Dirk Ifenthaler Scott Joseph Warren Deniz Eseryel …

Virtual Humans: Today and Tomorrow
D Burden, M Savin-Baden – 2019 – taylorfrancis.com
… THE ROLES OF VIRTUAL HUMANS 166 Intelligent Speaker 167 Customer Service Chatbot 167 Personal Virtual Assistant 168 Virtual Tutor 168 Virtual Non-Player Character 168 Virtual Life Coach 169 Virtual Expert 169 Virtual Persona 170 Virtual Person 171 Digital Immortal …

Exploring users’ goals and behaviors in two commercial games a case study of” Animal Crossing” and” Farmville”
XK Cao – 2014 – search.proquest.com
… information of the subjects by games. Game 1: Animal Crossing # Subjects Gender Ethnicity Grade Game Genre 1 Diana F Asian 7th Grade Animal Crossing Social simulation Adventure/Exploratory 2 Art M Asian 7th Grade 3 Al F White Freshman High 4 Eli M Black Jr. High …

Characterizing developers rework on github open source projects
TR Rúbio, CA Gulo – Proceedings of the 10th Doctoral Symposium …, 2015 – paginas.fe.up.pt
Page 72. Characterizing Developers’ Rework on GitHub Open Source Projects Thiago RPM Rúbio and Carlos ASJ Gulo LIACC/DEI, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal, {reis. thiago, prodei1300766}@ fe. up …

Gossip and Reputation in Computational Systems
J Sabater-Mir – The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation, 2019 – books.google.com
… In fact we have been able to find only one work in this direction. In (Brusk, 2010) the author develops a model of gossip initiation that is used by an NPC (non-player character) to decide if it is worth it to engage in gossip conversations …

An open-data-driven agent-based model to simulate infectious disease outbreaks
E Hunter, B Mac Namee, J Kelleher – PloS one, 2018 – journals.plos.org
Agent-based models are a tool that can be used to better understand the dynamics of an infectious disease outbreak. An infectious disease outbreak is influenced by many factors including vaccination or immunity levels, population density, and the age structure of the population …

Changeful tales: design-driven approaches toward more expressive storygames
A Reed – 2017 – escholarship.org
… 172 4.6 Ice-Bound as Sculptural Fiction . . . . . 176 5 Social Simulation 178 5.1 Introduction . . . . . 178 5.2 Defining Social Simulation . . . . . 185 5.3 Survey of Major Social Simulation Storygames …

Serious games as a behaviour elicitation tool: applications to evacuation scenarios
JESC de Almeida – 2016 – repositorio-aberto.up.pt
… NFPA National Fire Protection Association NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology NPC Non-Player Character Page 14. Serious Games as a Behaviour Elicitation Tool: Applications to Evacuation Scenarios Ph.D. Thesis Page x © João Emílio Almeida …

End-user development and learning in second life: the evolving artifacts framework with application
AI Mørch, V Caruso, MD Hartley – New perspectives in end-user …, 2017 – Springer
… However, using the Linden Scripting Language (LSL), boxes can also be modified by writing code. Such modification was not observed in this course, but the professor has used LSL in another course to create a non-player character (NPC) in a roleplay …

on Games Based Learning ECGBL 2014
IC Busch – 2014 – researchgate.net
Page 1. Abstracts of Papers Presented at The 8th European Conference on Games Based Learning ECGBL 2014 Research and Training Center for Culture and Computer Science (FKI) University of Applied Sciences HTW Berlin, Germany 9-10 October 2014 Edited by …

Programming Interactive Worlds with Linear Logic
C Martens – 2015 – reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu
… One domain for such methods is the simulation of non-player characters (NPCs … More recent investigations into the space of generative narrative experiences include the high school social simulation game, Prom Week, which uses sophisticated social models to determine how …

Investigation into game-based crisis scenario modelling and simulation system
P Praiwattana – 2018 – researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk
Page 1. INVESTIGATION INTO GAME-BASED CRISIS SCENARIO MODELLING AND SIMULATION SYSTEM Pisit Praiwattana A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Liverpool John Moores University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy June 2018 …

When Strangers Meet: Collaborative Construction of Procedural Conversation in Embodied Conversational Agents
S Ólafsson – skemman.is
… 9 interactions between the user (player) and the non-player characters (NPCs) takes place in a … their conversational skills in different ways, whether directly in relation to IceLangVR or not. The CADIA Populus social simulation platform (Pedica, 2009), which later became the …

Approximating value equivalence in interactive dynamic influence diagrams using behavioral coverage
R Conroy, Y Zeng, J Tang – 2016 – tees.openrepository.com
… Emerging I-DID applications include supplying control policies in automated vehicle routing problems [Luo et al., 2011], developing adversarial models in money laundering activities [Ng et al., 2010], designing intelligent non-player characters in real-time strategy games …

Evaluating scaffolding in serious games with children
CO Obikwelu – 2017 – clok.uclan.ac.uk
Page 1. Evaluating Scaffolding in Serious Games with Children By Chinedu Okwudili Obikwelu A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment for the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire March 2017 Page 2. ii ii …

Telltale Hearts: Encoding Cinematic Choice-based Adventure Games
JT Murray – 2018 – escholarship.org
… One can classify IDNs by how content is manipulated and selected1. Figure 1.1 classifies several prominent works in IDNs, including the social simulation platform Versu [15], the social physics puzzle game Prom Week [16], Façade [17] …

Narrativized Video Games: Playing Cultural Influences and Intentionalities
SA Pedraça – 2015 – era.library.ualberta.ca
Page 1. Narrativized Video Games: Playing Cultural Influences and Intentionalities By Sâmia Alves Pedraça A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Humanities Computing University of Alberta © Sâmia Alves Pedraça, 2015 …

Dynamic secularization
WS Bainbridge – 2017 – Springer
Page 1. Dynamic Secularization William Sims Bainbridge Information Technology and the Tension Between Religion and Science Page 2. Dynamic Secularization Page 3. William Sims Bainbridge Dynamic Secularization Information Technology and the Tension …

Curating Simulated Storyworlds
J Ryan – 2018 – escholarship.org
… 293 7.3.3 Birth and Death . . . . . 294 7.3.4 Social Simulation . . . . . 295 7.3.5 Marriage and Divorce . . . . … 400 9.2.4 Character Routines . . . . . 402 9.2.5 Social Simulation …

Artificial emotions in virtual storytelling
M Bída – 2017 – dspace.cuni.cz
… 4In this thesis the terms Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA), Non-player Character (NPC), agent and character will be used interchangeably. 4 … On the other hand in social simulation games such as The Sims [Electronic Arts, 2014] – the whole game is about keeping your characters …

Progress in artificial intelligence
L Correia, L Reis, J Cascalho – 2014 – Springer
… and applica- tions. Social Simulation and Modelling (SSM) may be considered as a spin-off of MAS with a special focus on simulation and synthesis of social behaviors in order to understand real social systems. Text Mining …

Gamification in Foreign Language Education: Fundamentals for a Gamified Design of Institutional Programs for Chinese as a Foreign Language
C Li – 2018 – rave.ohiolink.edu
Page 1. Gamification in Foreign Language Education: Fundamentals for a Gamified Design of Institutional Programs for Chinese as a Foreign Language Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the …

Narrative Agents as a Reporting Mechanism for Agent-Based Models
BD Auble – 2015 – ebot.gmu.edu
… completion of the model run. A review of several general books on ABM and social simulation (Gilbert 2008, Gilbert … In order to do 6 Page 18. this, he created a computer-controlled agent (“non-player character” or NPC) that was …

Enough of a world: A phenomenology of videogame Weltlichkeit
IB Jones – 2015 – search.proquest.com
Page 1. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ENOUGH OF A WORLD: A PHENOMENOLOGY OF VIDEOGAME WELTLICHKEIT A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE DIVISION OF THE HUMANITIES IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF …

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Immersive Interfaces for Combat Training
A Butler, R Fowler, M Winkel – 2015 – apps.dtic.mil
Page 1. Standard Form 298 (Rev 8/98) Prescribed by ANSI Std. Z39.18 956-665-2534 W911NF-11-1-0126 59095-CS-REP.2 Final Report a. REPORT 14. ABSTRACT 16. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF: This project focuses directly on immersive science …

Supplementary Materials for “A Survey of Corpora in Computational and Cognitive Narrative Science”
MA Finlayson – 2014 – dspace.mit.edu
… One field in which games still have much to gain is in Non-Player Character behavior in socially demanding games, like Role-Playing Games … In order to attain this we propose a model that has at its core social relationships with/between Non-Player Characters …