Home | Schedule | Readings | Assignments | Flyer |
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1 | 8-23 | Course introduction, narratology | Exercise 1: write a story | ||
8-25 | Narratology, narrative psychology | Exercise 1 | |||
2 | 8-30 | Narrative psychology | |||
9-1 | Narrative psychology |
Exercise 2: situation modeling |
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3 | 9-6 | Virtual characters |
Exercise 2 | Bates91 (Mark) Perlin96 Blumberg95 |
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9-8 | Virtual characters |
Exercise 3: prep for debate on participants vs. actors | Doyle97 Bickmore-aamas09 Bickmore-iva09 |
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4 | 9-13 | Virtual participants vs. virtual actors debate |
Exercise 3 (debate) | Leuski10 |
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9-15 | Interactive narrative | Teams formed |
Kelso92 (Mark) Mateas02 |
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5 | 9-20 | Design meetings Interactive narrative |
Project design draft | Cavazza02 Nelson05 |
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9-22 | Partial order planning Interactive narrative |
Magerko04 Riedl08 |
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6 | 9-27 |
Design presentations Story generation (if time) |
Critique 1 | Project design presentation (5 minute presentation, 5 minute for questions) |
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9-29 | Story generation |
Thue07 Meehan81 (pp 1-16) (Mark) Lebowitz84 and 85 Perez04 |
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7 | 10-4 | Computational Suspense | Critique 1 |
Bernardo94 (guest) | |
10-6 | In-class exercise | Exercise 4 |
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8 | 10-11 | Project meeting time | |||
10-13 | Project meeting time |
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9 | 10-18 | Fall break | |||
10-20 | Project status updates |
Status report presentation | |||
10 | 10-25 | Computational Improv |
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10-27 | Story generation |
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Finish Perez04 Gervas04 |
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11 | 11-1 | story generation |
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Riedl10 (pp 1-29) |
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11-3 | Procedural content generation and creativity | ||||
12 | 11-8 | Quest generation in games | Ashmore07 Hullett08 |
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11-10 | Quest generation in games |
Dormans10 Pita07 Magerko06 (Mark) |
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13 | 11-15 | Project status updates Story understanding |
Status report presentation | Lehnert82 (Mark) Other story understanding |
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11-17 | Story understanding |
Riloff10 Mueller07 |
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14 | 11-22 | Virtual cinematography | Chambers08 Bares99 He96 |
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11-24 | Holiday | ||||
15 | 11-29 | Virtual cinematography | Jhala10 Elson07 |
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12-1 | TBD | ||||
16 | 12-6 | Final presentations | Critique 2 | Final presentation | |
12-8 | Final presentations | ||||
Exam week |
12-13 | Play testing |
Critique 2 | 9:00am - RadVenture |