CiF-CK: An Architecture for Social NPCs in Commercial Games

Manuel Guimarães; Pedro A. Santos; Arnav Jhala

CiF-CK: An Architecture for Social NPCs in Commercial Games

Manuel Guimarães, Pedro A. Santos, Arnav Jhala

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Abstract

We present and describe CiF-CK — a social agent architecture that models reasoning about persistent social interactions to improve narrative engagement and play experience for human interactors. The architecture is inspired by McCoy et al’s Comme il-Faut (CiF) architecture that represented rich social interactions between agents that included emotions, social and relationship contexts, and longer term mood. The key contribution of this work is in adapting the richness of social interactions from CiF to a first-person interaction experience and a released distribution of its implementation on the Skyrim game engine. The released modification has been successful in the player community for the popular game.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2017 Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games
Publisher	IEEE
Publication status	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	2017 Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games - New York University, New York, United States Duration: 22 Aug 2017 → 25 Aug 2017 http://www.cig2017.com/

Conference

Conference	2017 Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games
Abbreviated title	CiG2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	New York
Period	22/08/17 → 25/08/17
Internet address	http://www.cig2017.com/

Keywords

Games
Computer architecture
Artificial intelligence
Engines
Tools
PROM
Computational modeling

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