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http://dx.doi.org/10.7583/JKGS.2014.14.1.93

State based Context Awareness Method for Non-Player Character  

Kim, Hyung-Il (Dept. of Multimedia, Korea Nazarene University)
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Journal of Korea Game Society / v.14, no.1, 2014 , pp. 93-102 More about this Journal
Abstract
The non-player character(NPC) either cooperates with the player character to proceed the game or fight against the game player. This paper proposes the context awareness method for the natural action control of the same NPC. The context awareness method analyzes the context information of the NPC that can be utilized in the current status and creates the actions which suit the current context automatically. The context awareness method analyzes the information value of the context elements of the NPC which occur in the current context and creates natural actions of the character by utilizing the analyzed context element information. In this experiment, average performance improved by 39% and by 8% in the context awareness method as compared to the rule-based method and information gain method, respectively.
Keywords
Non-Player Character; Context Awareness; Information Gain; Machine Learning;
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