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Título: PNFG : a framework for computer game narrative analysis
Autores: Martineau, Félix.
Fecha: 2006
Publicador: McGill University - MCGILL
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Tipo: Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Tema: Computer Science.
Descripción: Narratives play a significant role in many computer games, and this is especially true in genres such as role-playing and adventure games. Even so, many games have narratives which possess a certain number of flaws that can deteriorate the playing experience. This less than satisfying gameplay experience can obviously affect the commercial success of a given game. Our research originates from the need to identify these narrative flaws. In response to this need, we present a, framework for computer game narratives analysis. Our work focuses on Interactive Fiction games, which are textual, command-line and turn-based games. We first describe a, high level computer narrative language, the Programmable Narrative Flow Graph (PNFG), that provides a high level, user-friendly interface to a low level formalism, the Narrative Flow Graph, (NFG) [38]. The PNFG language is delivered with a set of enhancements and low level optimizations that reduce the size of the generated NFG output. As part of our work on the analysis of narrative structures, we developed a proof of concept heuristic solver that attempts to automatically find solutions to games from a lightweight, high level representation. We also define narrative game metrics and present a, metrics framework that simplifies the measurement and development of such metrics. These metrics contribute to broadening our general knowledge about game narratives.
Idioma: en