Computers as Theatre
AI characters and directors for interactive computer games
IAAI'04 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Innovative applications of artifical intelligence
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One of the challenging problems of tomorrow's iTV is how to generate a digital drama that looks like a real movie but which emerges out of the interaction of many (thousands) users. The problem of actors' credibility has been widely discussed in the relevant literature, however only in the context of the traditional theatre play. This article describes some basic aspects of future acting in digital environments. It also introduces the concept of "competitive acting", a new paradigm for digital stage plays of the future combining drama with interaction-driven dialogue and action elements in converged media.