CS 7634 / 4803 SVW / LCC 8803 MR : A.I. Storytelling in Virtual Worlds

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Week Date Topic Out
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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
Intro to game AI

Exercise 2: situation modeling
 
3 9-6 Virtual characters
  Exercise 2 Bates91 (Mark)
Perlin96
Blumberg95
  9-8 Virtual characters
Exercise 3: prep for debate on participants vs. actors   Doyle97
Bickmore-aamas09
Bickmore-iva09
4 9-13

Virtual participants vs. virtual actors debate
Interactive narrative

  Exercise 3 (debate)

Leuski10
Marsella10 (Mark)

  9-15 Interactive narrative   Teams formed
Kelso92 (Mark)
Mateas02
5 9-20 Design meetings
Interactive narrative
  Project design draft Cavazza02
Nelson05
  9-22 Partial order planning
Interactive narrative
    Magerko04
Riedl08
6

9-27

Design presentations
Story generation (if time)
Critique 1 Project design presentation (5 minute presentation, 5 minute for questions)
 
  9-29 Story generation
    Thue07
Meehan81 (pp 1-16) (Mark)
Lebowitz84 and 85
Perez04
7 10-4 Computational Suspense   Critique 1
Bernardo94 (guest)
  10-6 In-class exercise   Exercise 4
 
8 10-11 Project meeting time      
  10-13

Project meeting time

 

 

 
9 10-18 Fall break      
  10-20

Project status updates
Review of Game AIIDE'11 conference
Story generation

  Status report presentation  
10 10-25

Computational Improv

 


 
  10-27 Story generation
 

 

Finish Perez04
Gervas04
11 11-1 story generation  

 

Riedl10 (pp 1-29)
Swanson08
Bartle (Mark)

  11-3 Procedural content generation and creativity      
12 11-8 Quest generation in games     Ashmore07
Hullett08
  11-10 Quest generation in games
 
Dormans10
Pita07
Magerko06 (Mark)
13 11-15 Project status updates
Story understanding
  Status report presentation Lehnert82 (Mark)
Other story understanding
  11-17 Story understanding
    Riloff10
Mueller07
14 11-22 Virtual cinematography     Chambers08
Bares99
He96
  11-24 Holiday      
15 11-29 Virtual cinematography     Jhala10
Elson07
  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
10:30am - Rogue Agent
1:00pm - Pokepocalypse (start at TSRB)
2:45pm - Countdown (Ferst and Atlantic)
4:15pm - Detective Town