Build own video game story with this ‘tool’

WASHINGTON: Scientists, including one of Indian-origin, are developing a new tool that can allow people to easily build their own digital story worlds for video games consisting of 'smart' characters and objects.

The graphical interface guides users through the process of creating a story world, helping them populate the domain with 'smart' characters and objects, determine how they interact with each other and define events that can drive compelling narratives.

"We experience a shift from simple, linear stories into complex, participatory story worlds that are told across different media types," said Markus Gross, vice-president of research at Disney Research.

To enable a computer programme to reason, infer and ultimately generate stories, people must first provide the computer with a wealth of domain knowledge — information on places, characters and objects and how they relate to one another, as well as how they interact.

However, the languages and interfaces used for specifying this domain knowledge are highly specialised making them difficult to use by anyone who lacks equally specialised knowledge, said Steven Poulakos, a post-doctoral researcher at Disney Research.

"Our long-term mission is to empower anyone to create their own digital stories by providing easy-to-use, intuitive visual authoring interfaces," said Mubbasir Kapadia, a computer science professor at Rutgers University. PTI

Source | Times of India | 1 December 2015

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