An Agent Framework for a Modular Serious Game

Jepp, Pauline; Fradinho, Manuel; Pereira, João Madeiras

doi:10.1109/vs-games.2010.25

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“…There are several cases in the literature where different perspectives address the relationship between game concept and MAS. Thus, some present the relationship between MASs and the game mechanics design, emphasising the industry's tendency to relate natural language and the game mechanics definition during the creation of games [15], while others propose a framework for the creation of agents for serious games [16]. Further works present a MAS to model architecture for Massive Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) games [17,18], where the real-time interactivity of multiple game agents prevails.…”

Section: Game Engines and Multi-agent Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A game engine to make games as multi-agent systems

Marín-Lora

Chover

Sotoca

et al. 2020

Advances in Engineering Software

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Section: Game Engines and Multi-agent Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A game engine to make games as multi-agent systems

Marín-Lora

Chover

Sotoca

et al. 2020

Advances in Engineering Software

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“…Jepp et al [60] describe an agent-based architecture for modular serious games. The framework strives to provide serious games with believable, emotional agents to help players learn skills and evaluate their performance.…”

Section: Distributed Architecturesmentioning

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Serious Games Architectures and Engines

Söbke

Streicher

2016

Entertainment Computing and Serious Games

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The term Serious Game includes a wide, heterogeneous field of digital games with varying purposes and objectives and for a multitude of different application areas. All in common is the underlying software. This chapter gives an overview on the technical aspects of serious games including their software architectures and engines. As the general topic is manifold and the technical aspects of serious game software are quite comprehensive, this chapter covers the basic principles of and requirements for serious game software. It depicts selected software architectures and provides examples for game engines including a description of selected components.

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“…The concept of emergent narrative should not be seen as one in which characters are thrown together in the hope that narrative experience will emerge, RPGs indicate that reconciling the creative powers of interaction and the structural imperatives of the author are feasible provided plot is seen as a guide to what actually happens rather than a strait-jacket to be imposed upon participants. A Narrative Engine with emergent story properties is being developed also in the TARGET project [59]. A main motivation of the system is to provide believable, emotional agents.…”

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Designing Effective Serious Games: Opportunities and Challenges for Research

Bellotti

Berta

Gloria

2010

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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Abstract-SeriousGames represent an acknowledged potential for instruction, because they are able to strongly motivate learners. They can also provide immersive environments where advanced users can practice knowledge and skills, also exploiting multimodal interaction. They can combine the effectiveness of computer processing and data storage, with high levels of attractiveness. Our work has investigated the state of the art research on SGs, starting from the cognitive aspects, that are necessary in order to root technological development and applications in sound theoretical foundations. The paper discusses some key aspects about SG design and exploitation: choice of components-off-the-shelf or from-scratch design, tools and methodologies for development or adaptation, intelligent tutoring, virtual coaches and affective learning, living worlds, game mechanics, Human-Computer Interaction.While several SGs have been developed, still the literature stresses a lack of significant, extensive user tests. Further research is necessary to investigate in greater detail the real effectiveness of the various types of SGs. The paper proposes several research questions -that range from requirements elicitation to design and from deployment to use and evaluation -to be answered in order to avoid technology pushing and drive technological research according to the requirements of the end-users and stakeholders.We believe that deepening the analysis about these issues is key to strengthen the foundations of SG research, for which we identify four major directions: definition of metrics and learning progress evaluation tools; methodologies and tools for designing games from various topics and for various users; computing and communication architectures; technologies that can enhance the overall system performance.

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An Agent Framework for a Modular Serious Game

Cited by 13 publications

References 4 publications

A game engine to make games as multi-agent systems

A game engine to make games as multi-agent systems

Serious Games Architectures and Engines

Designing Effective Serious Games: Opportunities and Challenges for Research

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