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of the art of writing NPCs?

April 26, 2017art npcs writing

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of the art of writing NPCs?

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Phil Goetz (goetz@cs.buffalo.edu) has made available two of his papers: his overview of computerized interactive fiction (in DVI, LaTeX, or HTML) and his notes on using SNePS (Semantic Network Processing System, a knowledge representation and reasoning system). Both can be found on his web page . Dancer’s (root@brisnet.org.au) paper “‘Smart’ NPCs in Interactive Fiction” gives theoretical and practical advice on writing believable NPCs. [This link seems to be defunct. dancer.brisnet.org.au seems to exist, but is unreachable.] (See also: David Graves’ “Bringing Character To Life” in [ …in general?: 5.1] .